Quality & Mission Assurance Lead — Onsite (Secret Clearance)

RTX; Goleta (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Flexible work schedules

Parental leave

Job summary

RTX is seeking an experienced Quality Mission Assurance Program Lead for an onsite role in Goleta, CA. You will implement Quality and Mission Assurance across proposals and programs, ensuring supplier and product quality meets internal, customer, and industry standards.

The role requires leading root-cause investigations, RCCA activities, and working with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of five (5) years of engineering experience.
• Working and auditing experience with a Quality Management System (ISO 9001 and/or AS9100).
• Working experience with risk & opportunity management, assessment, mitigation, and capture.
• Working experience with drawings/specs and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Working experience with Nonconforming Material Boards and/or Failure Review Boards (MRB/FRB).
• Working experience with RCCAs and applying quality methodology and tools.
• Working experience performing quality inspections, test witnessing, and preparing and presenting end item data packages.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Implement and perform Mission/Quality Assurance Program responsibilities as a member of a program team or IPT, including Quality Systems Assurance, Supplier Quality, and Hardware Quality.
• Review and provide quality support and updates on purchase orders including SOW, quality notes, revisions.
• Chair the MRB and support FRB, working with cross-functional teams to disposition root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions.
• Present non-conformances and other findings to management.
• Participate in program document reviews, approvals, and verifications.
• Participate in manufacturing reviews and supplier technical reviews.
• Lead multi-functional teams in problem resolution and continuous improvement with RCCA, Six Sigma, Lean methods.
• Establish customer relations and communications processes.
• Proactively support supplier quality performance through prevention and escalation processes.
• Perform supplier visits, source inspection, FAI reviews per AS9102 and material release processes.

Skills

ISO 9001 / AS9100

GD&T

RCCA / CAPA

MRB / FRB

Root cause analysis

Supplier quality

Quality inspections

Project leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

PRISM

SAP

Windchill

J-Std-001 / IPC-A-610

Adobe Acrobat Pro

MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

Job description

RTX is seeking an experienced Quality Mission Assurance Program Lead for an onsite role in Goleta, CA. You will implement Quality and Mission Assurance across proposals and programs, ensuring supplier and product quality meets internal, customer, and industry standards.

The role requires leading root-cause investigations, RCCA activities, and working with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.