Strategic Test Architect: Capacity Growth Lead

RTX (Raytheon); Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX seeks a Capacity Growth Office (CGO) Test Solutions Lead to push production test capability, factory growth, and munitions acceleration across RTX programs. Primary tasking is in Tucson with onsite presence required.

You will guide test architecture, capital investments, and cross‑program alignment for scalable, common solutions. Responsibilities include defining test strategy, coordinating with Operations, Supply Chain, and factories, leading multi‑discipline teams, and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
• Minimum of fourteen (14) years of hardware and/or software design, development, or production test experience.
• Minimum of six (6) years of experience in development and implementation of production or depot-level test capabilities.
• Experience leading engineering teams with responsibility for performance, staffing and delivering production-ready solutions.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
• Experience developing and/or evaluating technical and/or cost proposals.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide production test strategy and execution across programs and factories to meet takt, yield, and throughput goals.
• Deliver scalable, composable, and common test architectures aligned with CGO factory acceleration and supplier readiness needs.
• Drive capital and automation roadmaps, ensuring sequenced deployment of test equipment, modernization, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Serve as technical authority for test architecture commonality, composability, and feasibility, influencing long-range planning and cross-program alignment.
• Coordinate with Operations, Supply Chain, factories, and program teams to ensure production-ready test capability meets contractual rate and acceptance requirements.
• Direct and influence multi-discipline test teams responsible for design, deployment, and sustainment of production test solutions across multiple sites.
• Guide enterprise test roadmap decisions, prioritizing automation, outsourcing, and technology upgrades while sustaining critical legacy systems.
• Drive strategic alignment across factories and programs, ensuring consistency in test planning, capability development and capital investment.

Skills

Leadership

EVMS experience

Cost/Proposals evaluation

Staffing/Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

RTX seeks a Capacity Growth Office (CGO) Test Solutions Lead to push production test capability, factory growth, and munitions acceleration across RTX programs. Primary tasking is in Tucson with onsite presence required.

You will guide test architecture, capital investments, and cross‑program alignment for scalable, common solutions. Responsibilities include defining test strategy, coordinating with Operations, Supply Chain, and factories, leading multi‑discipline teams, and delivering