Senior Supplier Development Lead

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🕒 August 5

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Lead internal and supplier containment actions with Operations and Quality • Facilitate supplier kick-off meetings and establish rapid response actions • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations for critical quality or delivery issues • Develop, implement, review, and monitor supplier improvement plans and KPIs • Evaluate containment exit criteria and escalate persistent issues to crisis mode or tiger teams • Partner with Commodity Teams and SBUs to transition improvements into sustainable operations • Identify and prioritize supplier development opportunities based on risk, impact, and strategic commodity needs • Conduct supplier assessments using the OCRA tool • Engage suppliers through development roadmaps, training, targeted actions, maturity models, and long-term growth plans • Align supplier readiness with Commodity Managers and Engineering teams for new programs and volume ramp-ups • Facilitate structured improvement plans, KPI tracking, gate reviews, and sustainment planning • Monitor supplier performance and conduct re-engagement cycles • Develop manufacturing process technology tools and standardization, including FMEA and Control Plans • Lead or support supplier transitions and monitor post-transition supplier maturity • Execute APQP for new product launches and work transition projects • Collaborate with Commodity Managers, Quality Assurance and Engineering, Operations and Planning, SBUs, supplier leadership, and crisis response teams • Travel to supplier sites as needed

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience • U.S. citizenship, U.S. person status, or qualifying immigration status required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under the program/contract • Knowledge and understanding of castings and/or forgings and their manufacturing • Ability to travel to supplier sites as needed, minimum 50% of the time • Experience working with cross-functional personnel • High communication skills and ability to develop relationships across Collins Aerospace business units • Strong work orientation and organization • Ability to apply CORE principles and tools to manage processes, continuous improvement, systems, and benchmarking • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Access • Experience with supplier recovery, capability improvement, supplier assessments, and structured improvement plans • Knowledge of FMEA, Control Plans, and APQP • Ability to manage crisis situations and long-term supplier development actions

🏖️ 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 • Lifetime Income Strategy option • Tuition reimbursement program • Student Loan Repayment Program • Life insurance and disability coverage • Optional pet, home and auto, additional life and accident, critical illness, group legal, and ID theft protection insurance • 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 • Medical, dental, vision, life, 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 • Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs • Remote work primarily from home