Tomahawk Portfolio Flight Test Lead P5

Date Posted:

2025-10-08

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ204: RMS Rita Road Bldg 9020 9000 South Rita Rd Building 9020, Tucson, AZ, 85747 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. 

Systems Engineering & Test Capabilities (SE&TC) integrates, verifies, and validates our products. We put our systems together, exercise them in the lab or in the field, measure and analyze performance, and make sure our products work the first time and every time. To accomplish this, we develop plans and procedures, debug and evaluate system functions and interfaces, develop test environments, and work together with our customers. 

What You Will Do

We are currently hiring a Tomahawk Portfolio Flight Test Lead responsible for the shipboard and ground testing of the Tomahawk Portfolio for 6 different sub-programs. This leader will develop, maintain and ensure the flight test strategy is optimized to meet program end-goal objectives. The role requires critical interaction/event planning with the Chief Engineers, software team and system integration and test team with a focus on test processes, embedded test, factory operations, and other functions.

This person will lead a team of five engineers managing Tomahawk flight test missile builds and supporting field and flight test events.  This role will coordinate frequently and directly with your government counterparts to status/coordinate missile builds and flight test support. This will require working with program Operations to arrange missile builds and will work across engineering functions to determine the appropriate missile configurations, document missile builds, verify missile test results and support the customer configuration and test preparedness reviews. This person will generate basis of estimates in support of proposal efforts and may negotiate directly with the customer counterparts.

The person fulfilling this role will also be working closely with the Test Architects on the Tomahawk portfolio and thus must be experienced in surface launched testing.  Join this team to perform technically challenging assignments which will directly contribute to protecting our nation and our war fighters. The position is located in Tucson Arizona

Responsibilities to Anticipate:

• Perform integration, verification, and testing to ensure the system under test performs according to design, specs and/or requirements
• Perform data collection activities, including review and assessment of data elements, and provide detailed reports of results
• Trace and/or correct faults in mechanical or electronic systems. Familiarity with failure reporting, analysis, corrective action and/or fault tree analysis
• Create/modify documentation in support of reviews associated with formal testing, which include Test Readiness Review (TRR), Consent to Ship (CTS), and Test Data Review (TDR) packages
• Support field testing for land and shipboard testing
• Able to work in a high-paced environment
• Generate CR, CN, or VARs, complete data package and take to board (ERB/CCB)
• Monitor / manage upcoming tasks; assign resources (working knowledge on MS Project)
• Collaborate actively with CAM, IPT, TA, CE, attend weekly meetings to provide status, needs
• Communicate weekly with customer counterparts to status and coordinate missile builds and test events.
• Lead a team of five engineers.
• Coordinate across engineering functions to support missile builds, test support and data analysis.
• Prepare BOEs in support of flight and field test events.

Qualifications You Must Have

Typically requires a Bachelor’s in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of Ten (10) years of prior relevant experience.

• Hardware Systems Integration experience, with preference for integration on shipboard platforms
• Platform Integration and/or Flight Test experience on shipboard platforms
• Experien