Inspection Quality Lead

Date Posted:

2025-08-21

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ859: RMS Rita Road Bldg 9022 9000 South Rita Road Building 9022, Tucson, AZ, 85747 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

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

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

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 Operations and Supplier Quality team works to ensure quality standards are maintained on the built and supplied hardware used in our Products. Receiving and Shipping inspection plays an important role in this process by providing quality validation of material flowing into and out of our Raytheon facility. This is a job in a dynamic environment where you will build strong networks and gain competencies with many Raytheon tools and processes.

As a Quality Lead on our team, you will support and enhance receiving and shipping inspection processes. You will actively engage with material issues and mentor other quality engineers as they work alongside you. These efforts will involve partnering with unionized hourly inspectors and utilizing root cause and corrective action (RCCA) tools to troubleshoot process issues and to resolve nonconforming material holds. Additional activities will involve the generation and monitoring of metrics and key performance data from our SAP and PDM systems. Our Quality Lead will drive projects related to metrics, standard work, and process improvement. Strong collaboration skills are for needed for stakeholder engagements across distributed teams, functional groups, and Programs in various lifecycles of development. You will work closely with subject matter experts in supply chain, quality, logistics, production control, and engineering.

What You Will Do

• Utilize problem solving skills to lead root cause and corrective action efforts to resolve nonconforming material issues

• Leverage familiarity with inspection processes and Raytheon procedures to assure consistency and continuity of receiving inspection activities

• Collaborate with critical Program and functional stakeholders to ensure effective and timely solutions to material and process problems

• Perform data collection across numerous digital systems and use collected data to perform data analysis

• Engage with hourly inspectors in support of quality inspection of supplied material

• Develop process ownership of key processes

• Use standard work, process improvement, and metrics to drive change

• Support material validations including dimensional measurements and Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), XRF testing to validate finishes on electrical components, shelf-life material management, First Article Inspection and Validation (FAI/FAV), and serialized Hardware Configuration control

• Implement hardware control mechanisms to support ship-at-risk and build-at-risk processes across Raytheon sites

This is a first shift position within our team and will be onsite at our Rita Road facility in Tucson, Arizona. Travel requirements will be minimal.

What You Will Learn

This job is extremely dynamic and fast paced and will provide an abundance of opportunities to engage across functions, Programs, and suppliers. Team members gain a wide breadth of understanding of Raytheon products and processes.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience

• Experience leading and performing Root Cause and Corrective Action efforts to drive resolution

• 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

• University Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)

• Knowledge of serialized hardware configuration, shelf life, x-ray fluorescence (XRF)