Principal Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer

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💵 $86.8k - $165.2k / 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

• Lead supplier quality activities for machining commodities, including supplier qualification, certification, development, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement • Analyze supplier quality data, identify trends and recurring issues, and develop supplier-specific improvement plans and corrective actions • Lead root cause analysis, containment, and corrective action for supplier quality escapes and systemic manufacturing process issues using A3 and 8D • Implement the RTX ZERO program to strengthen supplier processes and sustainable quality performance • Coordinate supplier qualification, certification, audits, assessments, source inspections, material releases, and Corrective Action Boards • Monitor supplier KPIs, identify quality and industrial risks, and develop supplier recovery plans • Evaluate supplier readiness and manufacturing process capability for work transfers and process changes, including Resourcing Gate requirements and PPAP acceptance • Collaborate with Engineering, IPTs, Program Management, Operations, Supply Chain, and Assembly Lines • Oversee supplier escape events, Notices of Escapes, Supplier Recovery Initiatives, and First Article Inspections • Lead supplier development opportunities and continuous improvement activities to enhance supplier capabilities, manufacturing processes, and supply chain performance • Travel approximately 50%

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related STEM field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience • Experience in supplier quality engineering, supplier development, manufacturing quality, or a related supply chain operations environment • Experience with APQP, practical problem-solving, AS9100, ISO 9001, PFMEA, Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and risk management • Experience monitoring supplier performance, conducting audits and assessments, and developing corrective actions or recovery plans • U.S. citizenship required • Preferred: experience in aerospace and defense or another highly regulated manufacturing environment • Preferred: knowledge of machining processes, manufacturing operations, and supplier process capabilities • Preferred: experience with PPAP, SPC, Gemba walks, A3, and 8D • Preferred: experience leading supplier audits, qualification, certification, source inspections, corrective action boards, and supplier recovery initiatives • Preferred: experience managing supplier relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Four weeks of PTO 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 • Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (not guaranteed)

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