Model Based - Deployment Lead (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-01-31

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW100: East Hartford 400 Main Street, East Hartford, CT, 06118 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious.

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tightknit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Pratt & Whitney, a worldwide leader in jet engines, is looking for a dedicated individual to lead  Deployments of Model Based Manufacturing and Inspection technologies, policies and procedures within our manufacturing centers.  This role reports to the Manager, Model Based Deployment, and is a part of the Manufacturing Engineering function within Pratt & Whitney’s Operational Excellence organization.  Model Based - Definition, Manufacturing, and Inspection (MD-DMI) is one Pratt & Whitney’s Model Based Enterprise (MBE) pillar projects focused on the advancement of digital tools to create a collaborative model-based process design ecosystem to enable improvements in process development speed and effectiveness.

In this role, you will have responsibility to drive implementation of Model Based Manufacturing and Inspection across Pratt & Whitney’s internal operations. Model Based-Design Manufacturing & Inspection (MB-DMI) is a company-wide initiative to augment 3D models with formats that enable automated consumption in manufacturing business processes such as:  NC programming, Tool Design, Work Instruction authoring, Inspection Programming, First Article Inspection, Process Capability Analysis monitoring & reporting, Physics based modeling, Material Review Board (MRB) for discrepant material.  This effort is focused on turning this vision into reality and deploying the capability.      

The successful candidate will have strong leadership, communication skills (both verbal and written), be self-motivated, persistent, and focus on results. They must be able to multi-task and be able to work through roadblocks, raising issues and identifying solutions to ensure tasks are driven to completion.  These skills are essential for collaborating with all the organizations that comprise the MB-DMI team (Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Digital Technologies (DT), PW MRO, PWC, RTX, software developers, suppliers, etc.) and integrating the requirements for the Operations organization. 

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the Voice of the Customer and identify the unique needs of the various manufacturing centers in preparation for the transition to Model Based Enterprise.
• Create deployment plans that are visible to all using a combination of tools including JIRA, VISIO and other tool sets as necessary.
• Executing on the deployment plan in an Agile manner with a focus on easing the transition for the manufacturing sites, accountability for deliverables and meeting timelines.
• Support Model Based Definition with actionable customer feedback to help improve the quality of the PW technical data package.
• Generate and execute short to medium range MB-DMI plans providing significant impact to the organizations.
• Be able to efficiently communicate and influence difficult and unique objectives within and outside of the organization up to an including the executive levels of management.
• Establish training plans and work with discipline owners to support  internal/external teams on MB-DMI tools and standard procedures.
• Develop metrics to monitor and report on health of transformation progress at all levels of the process.
• Leverage CORE continuous improvement tools to define and improve business process within Core OpX & Module Center deployment businesses.
• Create site deployment standard work resulting into a playbook for operations to execute MB-DMI readiness
• Lead and contribute to deployment level passports for business alignment on requirements and operational readiness.

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years experience (Manufacturing Engineering, Ops, Engineering Design, Supply Chain, Project Mgmt, Quality or equivalent), or A