Senior Operations Quality Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-07-15

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX190: 2501 West University, McKinney 2501 West University , McKinney, TX, 75070 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

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.

Join our team as a Senior Quality Engineer (QE). In this role, you'll drive a robust quality culture, practices, and collaboration efforts. Your focus will be implementing strategic quality enhancements across multiple programs.

This role shall be responsible for delivering Quality Assurance in line with the Quality Management System and Quality Policy across the several programs within the McKinney CMC factory. As the primary quality interface for customers, you'll ensure the hardware meet all Quality & Mission Assurance requirements.

You shall monitor quality metrics to drive continuous improvement initiatives, working closely with integrated teams to support factory production activities, including First Article Inspection and Government/Customer source inspection, and Layer Process Assessment. Working as part of the Operations Quality Team, conducting day to day Quality Assurance activities whilst engaging with key stakeholders across the organization.

This is an “Onsite” role based in McKinney, Texas and relocation assistance is not provided.

What You Will Do:

• Perform quality activities to aid the Design activities, respective Quality Assurance Plans (IE: First Article Inspections, Source Inspections, and checks on incoming and outgoing products).
• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
• Plan, conduct and oversee Internal/External audits to aid Raytheon’s Certifications.
• Develop partnerships with program and production leaders, IPTs, and other functions to drive issue resolution and implement improved processes.
• Generate new Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) projects to reduce costs on the program.
• Interpret requirements such as drawings and command media in compliance to work being performed.
• Manage, lead and provide guidance to Quality Control inspectors.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and five (5) years of relevant experience in the areas below;
• Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience in planning and performing FAI per AS9100 requirements
• Experience performing audits of products and processes within a program or business
• Experience interpreting requirements/drawings and identifying deficiencies/defects.
• Experience in Quality Assurance, audits and RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action) methodologies, Process Improvement and streamlining.
• Experience with Process Re-invention Integrating Systems for Manufacturing (PRISM) or SAP.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience in hardware inspections and inspection standards.
• Experience using people skills and working with customers, suppliers, in a team environment, facilitating cross-functional teams in systematic improvement activities.
• Experience working with or as a quality control inspector in a production environment
• Experience developing and maintaining productive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Experience communicating verbally and in written communications and networking with other stakeholders while problem solving and creating resolutions with effective and concise presentation skills

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 so