Supplier Quality & Development - Global Supplier Quality Tiger Team - Remote

RTX (Raytheon); Paso Robles (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX, the world\'s largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Supplier Quality & Development Professional to drive supplier qualification, monitoring, and corrective actions. You will lead prevention, escalation, and root-cause analysis using tools like 8D, PFMEA, and MSA to bolster supplier performance.

You will coordinate with RTX on GSQ initiatives, PPAP acceptance, and supplier onboarding while ensuring alignment with contract requirements and quality systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in supplier quality management and development.

Responsibilities

• Accountable to ensure Business Continuity management methodology deployment at RTX suppliers.
• Establish projects to secure sustainability of quality and supplier performance targets.
• Provide VoC to challenge supplier cultures/competencies.
• Identify supplier weaknesses, capabilities and improvements to enhance supply chain maturity.
• Deploy quality tools and lead initiatives for rapid recovery and continuous improvement.
• Communicate recovery plans to stakeholders and customers.
• Drive supplier transformation projects to meet RTX expectations.
• Support strategic sourcing by contributing to supplier reviews and strategies.
• Develop quality mindset and preventive KPIs to anticipate issues.
• May manage moderately sized projects or processes.
• Act as a subject-matter expert in supplier quality.

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.

Location: US-MD-CALIFORNIA-44423-CUST ~ 44423 Airport Rd ~ AIRPORT, Ste 105 (External Site). Position Role Type: Remote.

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required. Security Clearance Status: Not Required.

Collins aerospace is looking to hire Supplier Quality & Development Professional to join the Collins Global Supplier Quality Tiger Team. The successful candidate will be responsible to Manage Supplier Quality & Development processes and / or projects as an individual contributor. Works to achieve objectives that have a major impact on the organization goals. Uses expertise to provide input on supplier qualification / certification, assessment, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution processes. Manages supplier quality performance through prevention, monitoring/escalation processes, processing of supplier submission of nonconforming material. Manages/Supports supplier onboarding and qualification/certification. Manages source inspection and material release processes. Performs Escape management procedures, drives root cause analysis & problem solving and recommends corrective and preventive action for systemic supplier process and product materials.

Proactively supports the RTX supplier programs to ensure healthy continuous improvement and sustainability. Analyzes quality data to identify systemic issues and develops supplier specific quality initiative strategies, addressing them with key proactive quality tools (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans, SPC, etc.), as well as driving their implementation. Ensures that supplier is capable to meet all contract requirements including Resourcing Gate, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) acceptance and Work Transfer implementation.

What Will You Do

• Accountable to ensure Business Continuity management methodology deployment at RTX suppliers.
• Establish projects to secure sustainability of quality @ rate and supplier's performance targets are achieved.
• Provide VoC (voice of the customer) to challenge existing supplier cultures/competencies.
• Identity the supplier weaknesses, capabilities, capacities, axis of improvements and development to improve supply chain maturity and robustness.
• Deploy GSQ TT tool with supplier to establish expedited and sustained recovery (Gemba walks, MPR, Quality Improvement Plan, Control Towers, LEAN, 6 sigma).
• Communicate/present to Key stakeholders, leadership, customers on recovery plan.
• Seeks opportunities to apply lessons learned to continually develop RTX supplier management processes and competencies through identification and engagement of best practice and innovative solutions.
• Define and manage Supplier Transformation Projects to achieve RTX expectations.
• Support Strategic Sourcing commodities in defining their Supply chain strategies through inputs into the Supplier Reviews or directly within the commodity.
• Develop quality mindset and continuous improvement & contribute to anticipate recurring supplier quality issues and initiate preventive KPIs
• May manage moderately sized projects or processes.
• Typically viewed as subject-matter expert within discipline.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations for the implementation of supplier qualification / certification, assessment, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution processes.
• Manages the analysis of quality data and development of part / supplier specific quality issue resolution and corrective actions.
• Provides research and guidance for root cause analysis & problem solving (Red-X & 8D) in escape management procedures. Develops corrective and / or preventive actions for systemic process and product design problems for product provided by suppliers.
• Manages processes and procedures for supplier qualification / certification, source inspection and material release processes, and Correction Action Boards / DQ Clinics with suppliers.
• Drives support for the RTX ZERO program to ensure healthy continuous improvement and sustainability.
• Reviews processes a