Associate Director, Value Engineering

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $157.2k - $298.8k / 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, mentor, and develop a team of Design-to-Cost (DTC) and Producibility Engineers across multiple product lines and programs • Establish and implement value engineering strategies, processes, tools, and best practices • Drive value engineering CORE events across the five Collins Aerospace SBUs • Partner with Design Engineering, Program Management, Supply Chain, and Operations on requirements, design architecture, and design choices • Develop and execute cost modeling and should-cost methodologies for design trades, supplier negotiations, proposals, BOEs, ROMs, and business cases • Oversee and conduct producibility assessments, DFMA analyses, manufacturing risk evaluations, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives • Integrate cost, schedule, risk, and producibility considerations into program plans and technical baselines • Provide engineering-based cost inputs across the product lifecycle • Develop KPIs and reporting mechanisms for product cost performance, producibility index, and cost reduction outcomes • Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and value engineering excellence across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including design, manufacturing, value engineering, or cost engineering • 3+ years of experience leading technical teams • Experience with Design-to-Cost (DTC), DFMA, producibility engineering, or cost modeling methodologies • Ability to influence decision making in early design phases across multiple levels • U.S. citizenship required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract • Master’s degree in Engineering preferred • Aerospace/Defense development and production experience preferred • Experience with model-based engineering, digital manufacturing approaches, or advanced cost modeling tools preferred • Experience with DFx tools such as aPriori and DFMPro preferred • Prior success driving cost reduction or producibility improvements on complex products preferred

🏖️ 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 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 • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available; payments are not guaranteed • Remote work primarily from home • Potential travel to the site location as needed