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Senior Project Lead Engineer
Company | RTX |
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Location | Hartford, CT, USA |
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Salary | $82000 – $164000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- A Bachelor’s of Science degree in Engineering and 5 years of relevant engineering experience, or an Advanced degree and 3 years of relevant engineering experience.
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Responsibilities
- Key liaison for commercial and military multi-disciplinary groups, engaging directly with engineering management, program leadership, shop floor operations, and suppliers.
- Strategic operations oversight, including task execution planning, producibility improvements, quality notifications (QN), shop disposition orders (SDO), and Class 2 Engineering Change activities—only initiating deviations based on capability study results.
- Data-driven decision-making in complex scenarios, fostering collaboration within Hot Sections Engineering (HSE) teams to ensure timely hardware deliveries and drive process/hardware producibility improvements.
- Project execution and financial accountability, managing SDO and drop-in tasks under IPT Lead direction while maintaining budgets and charge numbers.
- Process innovation and outsourcing strategy, leading efficiency improvements and executing proactive/reactive outsourcing initiatives to optimize workflow.
- Travel up to 10% (Domestic & International).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience or desire to lead projects.
- Focus on results with the ability to drive projects to successful completion.
- CORE tool application experience.
- Experience working in a manufacturing shop environment.