THAAD Site Operations IPT Lead

RTX; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Eligibility

Job summary

RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead as the Site Operations and Technical Services IPTL for the UAE THAAD program. This onsite role will oversee sustainment, maintenance planning, and on-site support across multiple sites including US bases when needed.

You will collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, and program management to ensure cost-effective solutions, track performance, and deliver contractual commitments while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience managing cost, schedule and risk or with Earned Value Management, Risk & Opportunity, IMS or IMP tools.
• Experience with proposal or capture efforts.
• Experience with technical and financial data and reporting.
• Experience presenting program and technical issues to senior stakeholders.
• 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

• Oversight of site operations and technical services across all functional groups supporting the UAE THAAD contract.
• Ensuring cost and schedule for on time delivery of maintenance plans, fly-away teams, reach back engineering support, FRACAS events, site operations support, and test integration to meet the radar mission, contractual obligations, and customer expectations.
• Frequent interaction with the customer community, the program office, functional and technical leaders.
• Setting an effective communication cadence among technical and logistics leads
• Early identification of risks and opportunities, along with mitigation and capture plans.
• Leading efforts to support Customer Meeting and Data Delivery cadence.
• Partnering with the engineering leads including chief engineers and technical leads to provide the most cost-effective technical solutions.
• Attending regular customer working groups and ensuring a positive customer relationship.
• Supporting strategic efforts to identify and advocate for future sustainment needs and best practices to improve our system maintainability and supportability.
• Regular review of program status includes tracking and review by engineering and program leadership.
• Support proposal efforts, negotiations and reviews for any new scope and any potential contract modifications to ensure success of the contract.

Skills

EVMS

Risk & Opportunity

IMS/IMP tools

Proposal / capture

Data reporting

Stakeholder communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead as the Site Operations and Technical Services IPTL for the UAE THAAD program. This onsite role will oversee sustainment, maintenance planning, and on-site support across multiple sites including US bases when needed.

You will collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, and program management to ensure cost-effective solutions, track performance, and deliver contractual commitments while maintaining