Life Cycle Engineering Lead

Date Posted:

2024-11-06

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA101: Andover MA 350 Lowell St Essex 350 Lowell Street Essex, Andover, MA, 01810 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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.

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is responsible for ensuring our products are Safe, Reliable, Maintainable and delivered on time.  Life Cycle Engineering consists of multiple disciplines that support engineering, our program offices and our customers.  Our Life Cycle Engineering disciplines participate in the total life cycle of our products from conception to deactivation.  Our focus area is product support, including the following disciplines:  Reliability System Safety and Supportability.

What You Will Do:
As a Life Cycle Engineering Lead, you’ll be assigned to one or more Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) programs and will be responsible for providing innovative and trusted solutions that optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of the Land and Air Defense products and services over their life cycle. 

You’ll accomplish this mission by leveraging existing and new capabilities being developed within LCE and by collaborating with the following entities:

• Systems, Software and Hardware design organizations
• Engineering Cross Product Teams (CPTs)
• IAMD Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)
• Chief Engineers, Program Directors and Program Managers
• National and International Customers 

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Providing functional leadership of Life Cycle Engineering team for assigned program(s)
• Establish and drive roadmaps for sustainment activities
• Maintain open and frequent communication with other program leads
• Driving flawless technical, schedule, and cost performance of LCE products and services that leverage best practices, process optimization, state of the art tools and techniques and people skills by establishing key process and product metrics and driving continuous improvement
• Providing LCE inputs to proposals, supporting customer proposal negotiations, executing program start-up to include program Integrated Master Plan/Integrated Master Schedule and performance baseline development. Developing and partnering customer proposals, white papers, statements of work and Basis of Estimates
• Supporting Integrated Product Team and Program Managers to achieve staffing demands, identify and develop key personnel, build long-term plans that support LCE and LADS business models
• Supporting the LCE Director and Engineering VP via compliance to internal policies and procedures to include development of program tracking books, Estimate at Completions (EACs), and compliance with the Earned Value Management System (EVMS)

Domestic and International Travel May Be Required

This position is designated as ONSITE and is based at the Raytheon Andover, MA facility.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically Requires:  Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and a minimum 8 years of relevant engineering, program or project management experience.  An advanced degree may account for additional years of experience as required for this position.
• Experience with budget or financial management.
• Leadership experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret clearance is required. US citizenship is required as only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience using program management tools such as Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar tools, and experience with Risk/Opportunity Management tools and processes
• Demonstrated comprehensive planning skills with the ability to analyze technical and financial data and reports Exceptional judgment and decision-making
• Experience as an IPT/CPT Lead
• Experience with Engineering PMER, SBT and Team Strength tools
• Ability to lead, along with peers, the development of long range plans to capitalize on future opportunities as well as overcome obstacles and negotiate change
• Ability to manage diverse ta