Senior Supplier Development Lead

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $200k Grant - RTX on 2024-11

Aerospace • Defense • Manufacturing

RTX is a multinational aerospace and defense company that brings together aviation and defense businesses—including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon—to design, manufacture and service aircraft engines, auxiliary power units, integrated aerospace systems and defense solutions. The company focuses on advancing technologies that power flight, strengthen national security and support government and commercial customers worldwide, with a global presence across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. RTX emphasizes engineering, manufacturing, and research to solve complex technical challenges for aviation and defense.

📋 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, and review supplier improvement plans • Monitor KPIs and evaluate containment exit criteria • Escalate persistent issues to crisis mode or tiger teams • Partner with Commodity Teams and SBUs on closed-loop feedback and sustainable operations • Identify supplier sites and prioritize development efforts based on risk, impact, and commodity needs • Conduct supplier assessments using the OCRA tool • Engage suppliers through development roadmaps, training, and targeted maturity-model actions • Align supplier readiness with Commodity Managers and Engineering for new programs and volume ramp-ups • Facilitate improvement plans, KPI tracking, and gate reviews • Monitor supplier maturity and initiate sustainment planning • Develop manufacturing process technology tools and standardization, including FMEA and Control Plans • Provide leadership and support for supplier transitions • Monitor supplier maturity after transitions and reinforce continuous improvement • 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

🎯 Requirements

• University Degree and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience • Ability to travel to supplier sites as needed, minimum 50% of the time • Knowledge and understanding of castings and/or forgings and their manufacturing • Experience working with cross-functional personnel • High communication skills and ability to develop relationships across Collins Aerospace business units • Ability to apply CORE principles and tools for continuous improvement and benchmarking best practices • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications, including MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Access • U.S. citizenship required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under the program/contract • Security clearance is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • 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 insurance • Optional home and auto insurance • Optional additional life and accident insurance • Optional critical illness insurance • Optional group legal coverage • Optional 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 spending accounts • Flexible work schedules • Employee assistance program • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off and holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available