Senior Principal Risk Reduction Program Quality Lead - Effectors IPT

Date Posted:

2025-03-25

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA101: Andover MA 350 Lowell St Essex 350 Lowell Street Essex, Andover, MA, 01810 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

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.

This Senior Principal Risk Reduction Program Quality Lead will be a focused-on process improvement and risk reduction to the NSPA Patriot Missile Program. The primary focus will be process and product improvement for materials that will be shipped or drop shipped as RTX furnished material to our customer’s Certified Round Assembly Facility (CRAF) in Germany.  The role requires the ability to work successfully within integrated teams to analyze, control, and execute actions which predict risks and associated mitigation approaches.  This position works to improve product quality by systemically evaluating and validating measurement system capability for accuracy, repeatability, reproducibility, and stability over time; evaluating product performance using statistical methods to understand root cause, identify significant variances to predicted/targeted values; and translating, analyzing, and prioritizing customer needs and company policy and goals into quality performance standards. This effort will help facilitate a supply base expansion into Europe.  Position will require interfacing with both design and supplier quality engineers located at suppliers across the US and Europe and our Manufacturing Supplier Quality team to provide and support reach-back support for process improvements.

This position is a US based worker role which will require both domestic and international travel. Ideal candidate should be within commuting distance to major airport and within 50 miles of Andover, MA facilities.

This is an onsite role in Andover, Massachusetts

What You will Do:

• Identify and correct systemic performance issues and part/program risks
• Coordinate the activities of a team of Supplier Quality Engineers, being responsible for the performance and results of each project/supplier.
• Interpret quality requirements and assist suppliers in the development of robust processes 
• Ensure flow down of requirements to sub-tier suppliers
• Assist in supplier engagements
• Implement effective Root Cause and Corrective / Preventive Action
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and evaluate supplier quality issues, and implement corrective actions to ensure high-quality standards are consistently met
• Work as the liaison between the Program, Integrated Product Team and Subcontractor
• Contribute to the development and periodic reporting of program(s) key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure supplier quality performance
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including senior functional management and senior program management, to provide updates on supplier quality performance and contribute to strategic decision-making
• May be required to travel up to 25%

Qualifications You Must Have :

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science Degree In Science, Technology, Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics (STEM) and ten (10) years prior Quality engineering experience, with specific experience in the areas below;
  • Experience with commercial and aerospace / defense regulations and/or standards of a commercial equivalent with any of the following:  - AS9100, AS9102, ISO-9000, ISO-9001, AS9145
  • Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action including use of advanced methodologies.
  • Experience using quality science tools, such as Compliance Matrix Reviews, Control Plans, Process Flow Diagrams, Measurement Systems Analysis, SPC, or PFMEA.
  • First Article Inspections experience
• 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 :

• An advanced STEM degree
• Experience applying industry technical standards (ANSI, CMMI, ASTM, etc.)
• Skill/Certifications - Six Sigma, Lean, ASQ, ISO 9001 Auditor
• Practical experience of Aerospace or equivalent Preventative tools – APQP, PPAP, Special Processes and their management
• Experience self-managing and as a technical contributor