Principal Mission Assurance Lead

Date Posted:

2024-11-23

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX001: El Paso 7201 Montana Avenue , El Paso, TX, 79925 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.

The Land & Air Defense Systems (LADS) Mission Assurance Lead (MAL) will support several programs within the Product Support (PS) business unit, and work as a full-time onsite employee at our El Paso, TX facility.  Responsibilities include promoting and executing with a meaningful, deep quality mindset, practices, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. This individual will assist in implementation of Mission Area strategic quality improvements across contracts. 

This role will work to ensure the effective implementation of Quality and Mission Assurance requirements, and interface with the Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain and Supplier Quality in supporting program requirements. The LADS PS programs include contracts in the production, deployment, and sustainment phases.

We value diverse skills and experience, so don’t hold back. Your qualification could add tremendous value to our team. Our customers come from all different backgrounds, and so do our employees. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

• Interface with the program teams, customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and cross-functional organizations, supporting technical quality performance and ensuring compliance to Raytheon procedures and contractual requirements.
• Closely interface with external and internal customers to establishing effective relationship and communication.
• Support program planning activities, tailoring and completion of Integrated Program Tailoring Workbook.
• Create and maintain Contract Quality Requirements to document the quality requirements on proposals, programs, and contract modifications.
• Plan and conduct process audits to ensure program compliance to contractual and company requirements.
• Key team member in resolution of customer expectations and relationships related to Mission Assurance and Quality.
• Responsible for quality of delivered products and services to our customers and stakeholders. Assuring inclusion of quality requirements in planning and proposals.
• Responsible for improving processes or systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation skills. Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and information is typically difficult to obtain.
• 20% travel as needed.

Qualification You Must Have

• Typically requires Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and eight (8) years of experience in Quality, Engineering, or related field.
• Working experience with ISO 9001 and AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Working experience conducting audits, monitoring/leading Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA).
• Working experience performing analyses of nonconformances to characterize causes and develop containment/corrective actions.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Working experience with Engineering Labs, Operations Workflow, Planning Work Orders, Quality Control History Record (QCHR), Non-Conforming Material Report (NCMR).
• Working experience using PRISM to look up Part Numbers, view Purchase Orders, verify Q-notes, generate Quality Notifications (QN).
• Working experience using cPDM to view and analyze drawing requirements.
• Working experience conducting First Article Inspection (FAI), Verification and Validation, and product sell-off and delivery activities.
• Thorough understanding of contract requirements and compliance.
• Experience with procurement process and supplier requirement flow down, supplier engagement discussions of Q-notes and Drawing requirements, supplier non-conformances, Rework/Repair disposition, Return-to-Vendor process.
• Experience using Corrective Action Systems, NetInspect, DigIT, DISCUS, and other quality/logistic resources.
• Experience supporting Failure Rejection Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) a