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Joining Collins Aerospace isn’t just about finding a job; it’s about embarking on a journey to redefine the future of aerospace technology.

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 spanet. 

• The position is working onsite at our Troy, OH facility
• Relocation assistance is available

What You Will Do

• Accountable Quality leader overseeing a team responsible for a wheel and brake site and its global customer base.
• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing, and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
• Be the Quality POC for all programs being executed at all AWB sites, interfacing across programs, Key carbon sites and customers supporting technical quality and financial performance, and compliance to Collins procedures and contractual requirements.
• Lead integration and implementation of cross-functional teams to ensure alignment to quality and customer requirements per the program quality plan
•  Assess the QMS health and ensure full compliance with the different applicable requirements for the entire site activity.
• Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of other sites/team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies that shape Raytheon’s ability to become the provider of choice.
• Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency across supported programs.
• Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA) activities for systemic issues and to ensure extensive RCCA.
• Develop and manage plans, guidelines, policies, and processes to ensure the achievement of quality targets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with program leadership teams to define and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Lead Quality Management System (QMS) gap analysis and future state process implementation.
• Ensure Safety Management System is well deployed at each level of the organization.
• Ensure FAA and military customer compliance across contracts and platforms.
• Lead cross-functional Escape investigation teams and drive RCCA.
• Support site Quality Management System in accordance with Collins’s quality standards.
• Direct quality deliverables and initiatives including: APQP, quality notification reviews, material disposition, certificate of Conformance review, shipment data packages, root cause and investigation.
• Work cross-functionally resolving problems with product quality impacting operations and customers.
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of inspection procedures and technologies using the CORE approach.
• Drive product and process improvements ensuring the value stream quality metric goals are met (Escapes, Scrap, Rework, Throughput, Process Certification).
• Establish systems to support data integrity and accessibility.
• Ensure adequate supplier quality surveillance is in place, either based on Power & Control surveillance for the common suppliers or using our own surveillance for Propeller Systems dedicated suppliers.
• Drive quality improvement initiatives to ensure ongoing reductions in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), Scrap Repair & Rework (SRR), and escapes.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 16 years of relevant experience
• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62
• 7 or more years of experience with personnel management/leadership and ability to lead and influence technical teams.
• Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• 9 or more years of experience providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes.
• 8 or more years of experience overseeing/preparing for AS9100/ISO audits

Qualifications We Prefer

• Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications
• Working knowledge of Domestic and International regulatory compliance requirements (i.e., FAA, CAAC, CAAS, EASA, NRC, DOT, etc.).
• Experience in applying ISO 9001, AS9100 and AS9110
• Project management experience and ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with SAP Quality module, Solumina MES, Teamcenter, and MS Office Suite.
• Ability to work and effectively communicate with all levels of management, shop personnel and customers.
• Support implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145 and utilizing resources such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Key Characteristics, DFMEA, PFMEA and/or Control Plans.
• Experience interfacing directly with customers.

What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:   

• 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!    

Learn More & Apply Now!​

Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions. These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service. Our global team is committed to continuous improvement – we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable and more sustainable in the years to come. We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us!  

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. 

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

The salary range for this role is 147,000 USD - 295,000 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 Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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