Mission Systems Executive Administrative Assistant (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-06-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 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

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Collins Aerospace is seeking a highly motivated and seasoned professional Executive Administrative Coordinator to provide executive support to the President of Mission Systems and Vice President of Human Resources. This is an exciting opportunity to support and work alongside the Mission Systems global teams. You will work closely with global business leaders across Collins Aerospace and RTX. The successful candidate can effectively manage under time constraints, in a fast-paced work environment, and can multi-task. The candidate must be a self-starter, detail-oriented, technically savvy, and possess excellent organizational skills, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.  The role performs a wide range of administrative tasks and takes ownership of different tasks that may come up. This role requires a high level of professionalism and the ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality of information. This is an onsite position located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  

What You Will Do 

• Strong organizational skills to proactively manage priorities between the business unit President and VP of HR to ensure both are supported, in a balanced manner

• Effective calendar management by managing complex schedules and calendars for executive leaders and their need to meet and collaborate with other senior leaders in a dynamic and fast paced environment.  This will include support in managing schedule conflicts across a global organization, proactively looking ahead and adjust or deconflict, often using their understanding of communicate and understood priorities to make decisions

• Proactive email management and alerting to executive to priority actions

• Obtain a great understanding of the organizational key stakeholders and their support staff to be able to effectively coordinate meetings across a host of stakeholders. Develop a collaborative relationship with all the administrative staff within Mission Systems and proactively create a support infrastructure for effective coordination

• Assist in the preparation of agendas, briefings, correspondences, PowerPoints, spreadsheets, ordering supplies and meals for Staff Meetings and All Hands meetings and other events, as needed

• Arrange smooth travel accommodations (air/hotel/transportation) for domestic and international business travel; ensure necessary documents and processes are followed in advance of the trip using a variety of processes and tools

• Process expense reports and invoices in a timely manner in accordance with company policies and procedures

• Schedule and coordinate logistical details for virtual meetings, face-to-face meetings, and team events, such as agendas, guest speakers, conference rooms, virtual recording, and virtual break out rooms (via zoom), catering, digital technology support, and more

• Proactively support the team with necessary information flow & proper distribution to the department (emails, staff meetings, skip levels, all hands, town halls, one-on-one meetings, team events)

• Schedule and attend staff meetings and all hands, record and distribute