Principal Supplier Quality Engineer

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🕒 July 16

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Manage Supplier Quality & Development processes and projects as an individual contributor • Manage supplier quality performance through prevention, monitoring/escalation, and nonconforming-material submission processes • Support supplier onboarding and qualification/certification • Manage source inspection and material release processes • Perform escape management, drive root cause analysis and problem solving, and recommend corrective and preventive actions • Support RTX supplier programs, including Supplier Gold and RTX ZERO, to drive continuous improvement and sustainability • Provide expertise and recommendations on supplier qualification, assessment, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution • Analyze quality data and develop supplier-specific corrective actions and quality initiative strategies • Guide root cause analysis using Red-X and 8D methodologies • Develop corrective and preventive actions for systemic supplier process and product design problems • Implement PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow, Control Plans, SPC, and related proactive quality tools • Manage supplier qualification, source inspection, material release, Corrective Action Boards, and DQ Clinics • Review supplier readiness for work transfers and process changes, including Resourcing Gate and PPAP acceptance under AS9145 and Collins processes • Monitor supplier performance through KPIs, audits, assessments, recovery plans, CID management, and industrial risk management • Manage escape events, NoEs, SRIs, FAIs, LAIs, deviations/concessions, and recovery plans • Manage relationships and improvement actions with IPT leaders, programs, assembly lines, suppliers, and other stakeholders • Travel to supplier sites up to 50%

🎯 Requirements

• University degree and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience, or advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience • 8+ years of professional experience combining shop floor Quality support and supply chain operations • Strong background in electronics manufacturing, including components, CCAs, PWBs, and harnesses • Knowledge of AS9100 and/or ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems • Knowledge of AS9145 Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) • Knowledge of NADCAP Electronics Manufacturing special process requirements • Knowledge of ANSI ESD S.20.20 QMS • Auditing/assessing experience • Risk management and continuous improvement experience, including Lean Six Sigma • PFMEA, Control Plan, and Measurement Systems Analysis creation and evaluation experience • Experience assessing supplier manufacturing and supply chain process maturity and robustness • Experience monitoring and analyzing supplier performance through KPIs, audits, assessments, recovery plans, CID, and industrial risk management • Experience managing escape events, NoEs, SRIs, FAIs, LAIs, deviations/concessions, and recovery plans • Experience managing relationships with IPT leaders, programs, assembly lines, and suppliers • Must be able to travel up to 50% to supplier sites • U.S. citizenship is required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial engineering, or a similar field

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • Generous 401(k) plan with 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 pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection • Birth, adoption, and 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 • Flexible work schedules • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off and holidays • Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs • Remote work primarily from home