Supplier Development Lead, Engineered Items

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 107.5k - 204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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 in collaboration with Operations and Quality. • Facilitate supplier kick-off meetings to align expectations and establish rapid response actions. • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations to resolve critical quality or delivery issues. • Coordinate with stakeholders to develop and implement improvement plans and ensure clear communication through plan review checkpoints. • Monitor leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess progress. • Evaluate whether exit criteria have been achieved for containment efforts. • Escalate persistent issues to crisis mode or tiger teams when warranted. • Partner with Commodity Teams and SBUs to ensure closed-loop feedback and transition to sustainable operations. • Lead supplier site identification and prioritize development efforts aligned with risk, impact, and strategic commodity needs. • Conduct supplier assessments using SRA, SHA, Gemba, etc. • Engage suppliers with development roadmaps, training, and targeted actions tied to maturity models and long-term growth. • Align with Commodity Managers and Engineering teams on supplier readiness for new programs or volume ramp-ups. • Facilitate structured improvement plan development, KPI tracking, and gate reviews. • Monitor progress toward achieving target maturity levels and initiate sustainment planning once development objectives are met. • Support long-term monitoring and re-engagement cycles to ensure supplier performance remains stable. • Develop and build manufacturing process technology tools and standardization include FMEA and Control Plans. • Provide leadership and/or support for supplier transitions, ensuring a smooth handover of work scope with minimal disruption. • Support the sustainment phase by monitoring supplier maturity post-transition and ensuring long-term capability. • Align with internal business units and suppliers to reinforce performance expectations and continuous improvement efforts. • Execute APQP for new product launch and work transition projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years 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 of 50% of time • Experience leading supplier recovery efforts and supplier transitions • Ability to conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations for critical quality or delivery issues • Project management experience • Background in operations/manufacturing, engineering, quality, or supply chain with supplier-facing work • Experience working with engineered items (castings, plastics, machining, mechanical fabrication, forgings, electrics) • Ability to apply lean principles/tools for continuous improvement and process management • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) • Experience with and creation of LOB (Line of Balance), WIP (Work in Progress) trackers, Clear to Build, Inch stone charts

🏖️ Benefits

• 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!