EAS PMO DT Project Manager

Date Posted:

2025-01-07

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RCA99: RTN Remote, California

Position Role Type:

Remote

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.   

To realize our full potential, RTX is committed to creating a company where all employees are respected, valued and supported in the pursuit of their goals. We know companies that embrace diversity in all its forms not only deliver stronger business results, but also become a force for good, fueling stronger business performance and greater opportunity for employees, partners, investors and communities to succeed. 

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services:

RTX Enterprise Services (ES) is looking for a Digital Technologies (DT) Project Manager to join our Enterprise Applications Services (EAS) Value Management Office (VMO). We recently rebranded from PMO to VMO to highlight our enhanced focus on multi-mode value delivery, including traditional project management, Agile product delivery, and operational/project financial analysis services. This role is a traditional PM but expected to lean into Agile delivery more and more over the next couple of years.

Our VMO is part of a shared services Enterprise Applications organization and is responsible for leading significant business technology projects that reach across the company. Our projects usually focus on application development, enhancements, and modernizations. Many are SaaS software implementations & customizations. We also do some infrastructure projects and business process improvements with a digital slant.  

Our PMs are delivery professionals who enable teams to perform to their highest potential.    

What you will do:

• Lead & drive multiple mid-large size DT projects, showing up with an entrepreneurial sense of urgency and ownership, as if you were investing your own money in the project’s results.

• Diligently manage all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies.

• Drive the project’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed.

• Continuously demonstrate progress, provide status reports/briefings. Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the project.

• Efficiently shepherd your projects through our phase-gated project governance framework. Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate.

• With grit and tenacity, as if your life depended on it, attack complex issues and challenges for your projects. Often involves tactful executive escalations and driving for key decisions. All without leaving a wake of destruction and burned bridges.

• In additional to knocking it out of the park on your assigned projects, you’ll participate in efforts to continuously improve and mature our PM services and evolve our value management capabilities.

• Travel ~10% within US

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically a university degree and 8 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 5 years’ experience OR in absence of a degree, 12+ years of relevant experience is required

• 3+ years’ experience with project management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives.

• 3+ years’ experience building and managing schedules in MS Project.

Qualifications we Prefer:

• Experience working in a government and/or large, complex corporate/industrial environment.

• Expert in creating visually appealing, executive-level PowerPoint presentations.

• Experience developing & managing financial business cases & cost/benefit analyses for DT projects

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft applications (MS Project add