Date Posted:

2024-07-03

Country:

United States of America

Location:

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

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military, and government customers complete their most complex missions—whatever and wherever they may be. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Program Chief Engineer - Virtual Avionics Programs (Onsite)

What You Will Do:

As the Program Chief Engineer for Virtual Avionics Programs, you will serve as the primary technical interface to the customer and have primary accountability for meeting technical requirements, scope, engineering costs, and schedule commitments. You will define and maintain program plans, direct technical system-level trade studies, have design authority approval, and ensure adherence to processes by the engineering execution team. Additionally, you will liaise with value stream management and other leads to assure technical goals are achieved.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary customer technical interface for the virtual avionics programs.

• Accountable for overall cost, schedule, risk management, and technical success including program metrics.

• Ensure consistency among contributing organizations in executing engineering activities and manage program-level system integration between systems provided by different organizations.

• Engage with other contributing project engineers to achieve successful contract compliance and customer satisfaction.

• Accountable for complete and accurate decomposition of program requirements for virtual avionics systems.

• Responsible for overall product verification, certification, and required artifacts for virtual avionics solutions.

• Accountable for achieving the Design to Cost (DTC) goals for virtual avionics programs.

• Support appropriate technical staffing and assignment for virtual avionics program teams.

• Adhere to budget, schedule, and risk management processes for virtual avionics programs.

• Analyze portfolio problems and develop recommendations to modify project plans to mitigate and resolve issues related to virtual avionics programs.

• Engage and mentor VAE project engineers to achieve successful contract compliance, customer satisfaction, and consistency within the group across several projects.

• Engage in VAP proposals and create and refine associated SEER models.

• Support appropriate technical staffing and assignment for virtual avionics program teams.

• Direct and select IR&D technology developments.

• Create and maintain technical roadmaps for VAP.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree (typically in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations OR Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience OR In absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience is required

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Must have or be capable of obtaining a US Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance. Candidate selected will be subject to a government security investigation/reinstatement and must meet eligibility requirements

• Previous experience as a Systems Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Engineer, preferably in the avionics or virtual systems domain.

• Experience with project planning pursuits and execution in the avionics or virtual systems domain.

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain professional networks.

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Understanding and utilization of appropriate processes and tools during pursuit, order capture, and execution of large avionics or virtual systems programs.

• Strong leadership skills as demonstrated through interpersonal interaction, individual mentoring, and team development.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well in a professional team environment.

• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks, balance priorities, and adhere to schedules.

• Self-motivated with strong analytical skills.

• Experience in system-level test planning, configuration management, and test execution for avionics or virtual systems.

• Proficiency with Atlassian Application Life Cycle tool suite (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).

• Understanding and application of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

• Adoption Assistance         

• Autism Benefit

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more! 

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The salary range for this role is 118,000 USD - 246,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.