Principal Production Support Electrical Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · plano, TX +1 · Engineering

Principal Production Support Electrical Engineer role at RTX, focusing on resolving production, testing, and integration challenges for airborne RF electronics. Requires leading technical evaluations, communicating findings, and driving improvement initiatives. Involves collaboration with manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead technical evaluations of hardware, categorize failure modes, and provide systematic resolutions in a timely manner.
  2. Effectively communicate hardware failure updates and technical findings with potential solutions to program leadership.
  3. Lead and execute improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency and quality.
  4. Coordinate and facilitate critical team meetings to drive quick resolutions to complex problems to mitigate risk to schedule and increased cost.
  5. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and travel periodically (up to 25%) to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, or customer sites to support production efforts.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM
  • 8+ years of experience in production/testing of electrical subsystems
  • Hardware failure trend identification
  • RCCA investigations
  • Earned Value Management
  • Control Account Management (CAM)

Nice to have

  • In-depth technical knowledge of a product with frequent vendor technical support
  • Manufacturing Engineering principles and practices
  • PRISM, SAP, CMES
  • Compliance standards (Raytheon Quality Notes, J-STD-001, ISO9001/AS9100)
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Technical data analysis

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in leading and supporting the production and/or testing of electrical subsystems in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience in identifying hardware failure trends and leading RCCA investigations at the system, subsystem, WRA/LRU, module, or CCA levels.