Program Quality & Mission Assurance Lead — DoD (Hybrid)

RTX; Woburn (MA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

RTX, a global leader in aerospace and defense, seeks a Program Quality Lead for the Ground Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) program in Woburn, MA. This hybrid role promotes a robust QMA culture, partnering with Engineering, Contracts, Finance, and Operations to ensure top-quality program execution.

The ideal candidate will have a STEM background with 5+ years in defense quality, experience with IPDS and ISO 9001/AS9100, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) with five (5) years’ manufacturing, quality or design engineering experience in the defense industry.
• Customer interface management experience (i.e., Acquisition Customers and Program Offices, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA).
• Experience with Integrated Product Development System (IPDS) or similar gate management processes.
• Experience with requirements compliance with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience executing contracts/projects within cost, schedule, and/or technical performance constraints.
• Experience with estimating and/or bidding new business proposals (e.g. Estimate (BOE) writing, Approval Certification, etc.).
• Experience with technical failure investigations, developing robust corrective action plans and/or membership in failure review board.
• Experience in design, production, and/or sustainment phases of a program lifecycle in a related production discipline (i.e. operations, supply chain, engineering, or quality).

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate shaping of the technical and management baseline early in pursuit to balance technical performance, schedule, quality, and affordability.
• Engage on strategic and tactical levels focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance.
• Develop and implement strategic and tactical QMA plans at the program level.
• Manage technical and process risk and opportunity.
• Promote quality mindset and coordinate QMA requirements with program teams and customers.
• Act as Prime QMA interface with the program, customers, and IPTs.
• Execute resourcing, technical quality, financial performance, and compliance with Raytheon procedures.
• Establish relationships with internal and external customers across multiple levels.
• QMA liaison on requirements definition and program implementation decisions.
• Identify opportunities and drive continuous improvement initiatives using CORE methodology.
• Optimize RCCA and FRACAS activities for systemic issues.
• Apply statistical process controls to critical processes and characteristics.
• Accountable for quality performance in EAC reviews and planning.
• Up to 20% travel (domestic & international).

Skills

Customer interface management

IPDS / gate management

ISO 9001 / AS9100

Cost, schedule, and technical risk

Estimating / bids

Failure investigations

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

STEM degree

Job description

RTX, a global leader in aerospace and defense, seeks a Program Quality Lead for the Ground Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) program in Woburn, MA. This hybrid role promotes a robust QMA culture, partnering with Engineering, Contracts, Finance, and Operations to ensure top-quality program execution.

The ideal candidate will have a STEM background with 5+ years in defense quality, experience with IPDS and ISO 9001/AS9100, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams.