Supplier Quality and Development Associate Director

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🔥 39 minutes ago

🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $157.2k - $298.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Manage and develop a high-performing Supplier Assurance organization • Ensure supplier manufacturing readiness, manufacturing capability, quality-system maturity, and recovery execution • Own and execute 1–2 year Supplier Assurance operational plans • Align supplier readiness and recovery priorities with business needs • Translate long-range supplier readiness strategy into team objectives and processes • Influence executive leadership and stakeholders on supplier risk, rate capability, and manufacturing stability • Implement processes, standards, and operating models to advance Supplier Assurance strategy • Lead, mentor, and develop P3–P5 Supplier Assurance Engineers • Create workforce, staffing, and succession plans • Build a culture of structured problem-solving, assessment quality, and effective communication • Oversee diagnostics including PFMEA, SPC, Cpk/Ppk, tooling/equipment assessments, OEE, and Run-at-Rate validation • Oversee capacity modeling, cycle-time analysis, bottleneck mapping, throughput evaluation, and multishift staffing models • Approve supplier readiness assessments and performance plans • Direct moderate- to large-scale supplier recovery efforts • Guide cross-functional teams in restoring supplier stability • Ensure diagnosis, containment, root-cause identification, and sustainable corrective actions • Communicate recovery progress to senior leadership and supplier executives • Govern supplier AS9100/ISO9001 maturity, control plans, FAI, inspection methods, and quality-system discipline • Ensure RCCA execution using 8D, 5-Why, and escape-prevention tools • Sponsor escape-prevention improvements and new quality standards • Represent Supplier Assurance in program reviews and operations meetings • Communicate technical findings, financial implications, and risks to senior leaders • Integrate cost of quality, scrap, labor efficiency, overtime, and capital limitations into supplier risk assessments • Ensure supplier technical actions support financial and program profitability objectives

🎯 Requirements

• University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum twelve (12) years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum ten (10) years' experience • Experience in supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, operations, or another engineering field • Experience within aerospace and defense or similar complex industries • Experience with PFMEA, SPC, Cpk/PpK, OEE, Run-at-Rate, control plans, and/or manufacturing diagnostics • Supervisory or managerial experience • U.S. citizenship • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance • Active and existing DoD Secret security clearance required after day 1 • Preferred: advanced degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Business • Preferred: experience managing multi-site, complex suppliers • Preferred: experience with AS9100/ISO9001, inspection systems, escape-prevention methods, and FAI processes • Preferred: Lean, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving training/certification • Preferred: throughput, capacity, rate-readiness, staffing, and bottleneck-mapping experience • Preferred: experience coaching supplier leadership and managing conflict • Preferred: complex supplier diagnostics experience • Preferred: supplier recovery and stabilization leadership experience • Preferred: executive stakeholder influence experience • Preferred: experience implementing supplier processes, standards, or operating models • Preferred: exceptional executive and supplier-leadership communication skills • Preferred: financial and operational acumen involving cost of quality, labor efficiency, overtime, scrap, and capital constraints • Ability to travel 50–60% of the time to supplier locations

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • 401(k) match • Flexible spending accounts • Flexible work schedules • Employee assistance program • Employee Scholar Program • Parental leave • Paid time off • Holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available (not guaranteed) • Remote work primarily from home • Travel to supplier locations as needed