Senior Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-09-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RNY99: RTN Remote, New York

Position Role Type:

Remote

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

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ 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.

What you will do:

The Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer is the primary quality interface between Raytheon’s organization and the external supply base.  The CSAE is responsible for ensuring suppliers meet requirements, resolve quality issues, provide performance feedback, and implement continuous improvement ideas. This role requires excellent communication skills, meeting facilitation, and the ability to create and sustain healthy supplier relationships. The CSAE is a key player as the liaison between the supply base and Raytheon’s internal functional groups for activities such as supplier source selection, business level management, risk mitigation, strategic planning, and development of key suppliers.  The CSAE represents Raytheon professionally and supports Raytheon’s Vision, Values, Strategy and Goals in the supply base.

Location Information:

This position entails assignment as a Senior Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer residing in New York ( preferably in the Long Island, NY area) in the US and is remote. Visits to local Supplier facilities will be required and will require a home office be maintained. Candidates are expected to travel domestically a minimum of 25% of the time, to include driving up to 300-mile radius with some flying as needed.

Responsibilities to Anticipate:

• Developing process improvement strategies and risk mitigation activities to be utilized across supply base
• Closely interface with external/internal customers and key partners to establishing effective relationships
• Must have the ability to manage and impact multiple stakeholder levels
• Leveraging quality assurance to influence business decision-makers, ensuring efforts are focused on the customer’s priorities and mission success requirements
• Interpreting purchase order quality notes and quality requirements to ensure subcontractor/supplier understanding
• Ensuring flow down of Product requirements both internally and to sub-tier suppliers and ensuring compliance with quality requirements
• Assessing subcontractor/supplier quality capabilities throughout the program life cycle to achieve full program objectives
• Identifying supplier risk and systemic performance issues ensuring root-cause analysis and corrective solutions are identified and implemented with closure plans
• Driving continuous product / process improvements using statistical / analytical improvement tools such as Six Sigma and lean methodologies
• Working with other Quality functions and Cross Business Teams (CBTs), to affect rapid closure of issues utilizing analytical capabilities and communications skills
• Supports the First Article Verification and Source Inspection
• Supporting supplier assessments, audits, and reviews

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years relevant engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 12 years of industry related experience.
• Experience managing and leading suppliers with Root Cause Corrective Action methods such as 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.
• Experience working process improvement initiatives
• Experience in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data for decision making
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Six Sigma, Lean and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification (CQE, CQM/OE, CSQE, CQA, CRE, etc.)
• Experience in DoD product and process oversight including requirements, build, integration, test and delivery
• Strong