Senior Principal Program Quality Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-04-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ201: RMS AP Bldg 801 1151 East Hermans Road Building 801, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Are you ready for a challenging new opportunity? Raytheon has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Principal Program Quality Engineer position within our AIM-9X program at our Tucson, AZ location.

The ideal candidates will implement and develop processes to deliver compliant systems and specific customer quality flow down requirements throughout program lifecycles. You will be responsible for supporting programs ensuring that Quality Assurance technical requirements are developed using approved development processes and procedures. You will create or tailor existing planning to administer customer and internal quality requirements to cross-functional program teams, Quality Assurance disciplines supporting the programs, and the supply base.

This is an “Onsite” role based in Tucson, Arizona.

What You Will Do:

• Lead, coach and mentor program stakeholders in routine settings and difficult situations.
• Represent Quality Assurance (QA) on a program, project, and/or capture team including writing basis of estimates (BOE’s) for the quality portion of program bids.
• Represent QA, participate, approve Program’s Risk & Opportunity (R&O), Estimate at Complete (EAC).
• Leverage QA best practices to influence stakeholders to ensure efforts are properly focused on customer priorities and requirements associated with mission success.
• Communicate program goals, targets, requirements and customer feedback to Operations Quality, Supplier Quality, Software Quality and other QA disciplines, cross-functional program teammates and supply base to assure alignment.
• Provide program directions to ensure quality tasking is accomplished within budget, on time and as defined in program planning.
• Define, evaluate and report-out QA metrics to Program and QA LT.
• Establish customer relations and process and validate customer corrective action requests.
• Ensure reviews and assessments of program performance are conducted, including but not limited to, technical assessments of systems engineering, Quality Assurance (QA), lessons learned, production and programmatic (cost, schedule, and risks) practices.
• Assuring Quality Management System (QMS) processes are defined and implemented.

• Review and approve program documentation, including but not limited to, specifications, requirements, source control drawings, altered item drawings, assembly drawings, test plans, procedures, instructions and standard operating procedures prior to release for correctness to technical standards.
• Act as the voice of the customer to assure mission results.
• Support and implement Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with Raytheon Command Media and AS9145, as applicable.
• Manage QA teams in performing to expectation and mentoring employees in talent enhancement and new systems and processes.
• Oversee RTX Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE) projects.
• Travel as needed for business needs (not expected to exceed 25% of time).

Qualification You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and ten (10) years of relevant experience in the areas below;
  • Experience applying and adhering to Commercial and Aerospace / Defense regulations and/or standards IS09001, AS9100, AS9102, AS9145.
  • Experience translating external and internal requirements and command media.
  • Experience in predictive and proactive measures and metrics assessments and taking actions to improve performance or mitigate problems.
  • Experience in audits, nonconformance review boards (MRB/FRB), and Quality Management Systems.
  • Experience working with suppliers, supplier moves. and new supplier start-ups.
• Active and transferable Secret