Supplier Development Lead

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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 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 to transition suppliers to sustainable operations • Identify supplier sites and prioritize development efforts based on risk, impact, and strategic commodity needs • Conduct supplier assessments using SRA, SHA, Gemba, and related methods • Create supplier development roadmaps, training, and targeted maturity-model actions • Align supplier readiness with Commodity Managers and Engineering teams for new programs and volume ramp-ups • Facilitate improvement-plan development, KPI tracking, and gate reviews • Monitor supplier maturity and initiate sustainment planning • Provide leadership or support for supplier transitions and smooth handover of work scope • Execute APQP for new product launch and work transition projects • Develop manufacturing process technology tools and standardization, including FMEA and Control Plans • Collaborate with Commodity Managers, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Operations, 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 • Experience leading supplier recovery efforts and supplier transitions • Experience conducting Root Cause and Corrective Action 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 such as castings, plastics, machining, mechanical fabrication, forgings, and electrics • Ability to apply lean principles and tools for continuous improvement and process management • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access • Experience creating and using LOB, WIP trackers, Clear to Build, and milestone charts • Ability to present to customers, engage VP-level leadership, and collaborate with supplier CEOs and Presidents • Strong organizational skills and work orientation • U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract • No security clearance required

🏖️ 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 coverages • 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)