Digital Project Manager

ISU Research Park; Des Moines, Northern (IA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Digital Project Manager to develop plans, drive tasks, track progress, and resolve issues on large-scale, complex programs transforming business processes and systems.

You will follow PM best practices, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure alignment with program goals. The role requires up to 50% travel to RTX sites across the US and a strong background in project management.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent experience with minimum years of relevant work.
• Advanced degree in related field preferred with years of experience.
• Experience in scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheets, Planview or Jira.
• Core project management experience (e.g., Six Sigma or Change Management).
• Experience across waterfall and agile Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute comprehensive project management plans.
• Drive progress, milestones, and overall timeline adherence.
• Manage resources and workload across teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor risks with real-time alerts.
• Communicate expectations and ensure accountability within the team.
• Resolve conflicts and promote shared responsibility toward goals.
• Coordinate multiple complex projects and travel to major RTX US sites (~25%-50%).

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Resource management

Team leadership

Communication

Time management

Travel readiness

Education

University degree or equivalent experience

Advanced degree (Preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheets

Planview

Jira

Job description

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

RTX launched oneRTX to focus on leveraging the scale of our three business units to improve collaboration, cost structure, productivity, and performance. The oneRTX: Process & Systems Transformation (PST) project is one of several major, multi-year initiatives under oneRTX that align to our goals as a company and optimize how we work, how we operate and how we deliver to our customers so that we can achieve our full potential.

The intent of oneRTX: PST is to harmonize processes, tools, and metrics across RTX, while deploying a common enterprise resource management platform - SAP's S/4 HANA. The result will be a common user experience across the businesses, real-time visibility into critical data, and automation of manual tasks to enable all employees to focus on value-add activities. With processes optimized and harmonized, we can leverage our scale so teams across RTX can share resources, leverage talent seamlessly and identify efficiencies. We will reduce cost and effort and improve performance as we break down silos and establish consistent ways of working.

The Digital Project Manager will develop project plans, drive project tasks with various team members and stakeholders, track project progress, and escape project issues. This individual will be expected to follow project management processes and best practices to ensure all tasks, activities, and resources are aligned to meet the overall program and organizational goals.

You are the ideal candidate if you have experience managing large scale, complex programs and projects related to business process and system transformation.

What You Will Do:

• Project planning and execution of comprehensive project management plan.
• Drive project progress, including task completion, milestone achievement and overall project timeline adherence.
• Resource management and allocation, understanding team member workload, potential resource constraints, and ensure optimal resource utilization throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Proactive risk management: identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor potential risks with real-time alerts for critical issues.
• Communicate expectations and instill accountability in team members.
• Resolve conflicts, promote work sharing, and motivate teams toward common goals.
• Manage multiple difficult and complex projects, tasks and resources through effective organization prioritization, and time management practices to meet stakeholder objectives.
• Ability to travel ~ 25%-50% to other major RTX US sites (Farmington, Richardson, Cedar Rapids, and Charlotte).

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience OR in absence of a degree 12 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheets, Planview, Jira, or similar tools.
• CORE or equivalent (i.e. Six Sigma or Change Management) and project management experience.
• Experience with multiple project methodologies including waterfall and agile Scrum methodology.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Effectively lead and manage change within a matrix and team environment while collaborating across lines of business including process and digital.
• Experience with agile frameworks/iterative approaches to software development and implementation projects.
• Work productively in a fast-paced, demanding environment (virtually as well as in-person) while managing multiple activities concurrently.
• Guide and influence at multiple levels of the organization to include executive leadership.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile certifications.