Program Quality Engineer

Standard Missile 3 Missile On-site Program Quality Engineer (PQE)

Our Standard Missile 3 Missile On-site Program Quality Engineer (PQE) in the Naval Power (NP) Strategic Business Unit, will support Quality initiatives at our Tucson, AZ location. In this role, you'll drive a robust quality culture, practices, and collaboration efforts.

As the primary quality interface for the product Integrated Product Team (IPT), you'll be responsible for ensuring the program meets all Quality & Mission Assurance requirements. This includes coordinating with functional Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and overseeing scope of work through all integrated product development phases, from design to production and sustainment. You'll be the customer's advocate internal to the team, ensuring we meet our obligations and expectations.

The PQE shall monitor quality metrics to drive continuous improvement initiatives, working closely with integrated teams to enforce process rigor, transition to production activities, you will conduct various Advanced Product Quality Planning activities (APQP), drive Quality CORE Metrics, and play a key role in Material Review Board (MRB), Change Control Board (CCB), and Failure Review Board (RRB).

You will ensure reviews and assessments of program performance are performed, including technical assessments of systems, lessons learned, technology, and programmatic (cost, schedule, and risks and/or defects) practices assuring Quality management System (QMS) processes are defined and implemented.

This is an "onsite" role in Tucson, AZ.

What You Will Do :

• Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies that shape Raytheon's ability to become the provider of choice.
• 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.
• Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency of the Stinger program.
• Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA) and FRACAS activities for systemic issues and to ensure extensive RCCA.
• Implement Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable.

Qualifications You Must Have :

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of five (5) years of prior relevant experience.
• Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action.
• Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes.
• 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 :

• Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications
• Experienced team player who achieves goals and strives for continuous improvement.
• Experience Reviewing Statement of Work (SOW), Corrective Action Requests (CAR)
• Experience interfacing directly with customers
• Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Control Board (CCB).
• Experience exercising judgement and apply resolution-making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
• Experience translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Experience applying people skills and working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.
• Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102.
• Experience with performance to cost, schedule, and technical performance including Cost Accounting Methodologies (Earned Value).

What We Offer :

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.