Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer - Mechanical

RTX is the world largest aerospace and defense company, uniting great minds to solve complex problems. The Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer serves as the primary quality interface between Raytheon and the external supply base, focusing on supplier assessments, performance management, and continuous improvement activities.

Responsibilities:

• Interpreting purchase order quality notes and quality requirements to ensure subcontractor/supplier understanding
• Ensuring flow down of Product requirements both internally and to sub-tier suppliers and ensuring compliance with quality requirements
• Assessing subcontractor/supplier quality capabilities throughout the program life cycle to achieve full program objectives
• Identifying supplier risk and systemic performance issues ensuring root-cause analysis and corrective solutions are identified and implemented with closure plans
• Driving continuous product / process improvements using statistical / analytical improvement tools such as Six Sigma and lean methodologies
• Working with other Quality functions and Cross Business Teams (CBTs), to affect rapid closure of issues utilizing analytical capabilities and communications skills
• Ensuring Subcontract Data Requirements List deliverables are met
• Supports the First Article Verification and Source Inspection
• Travel: 40%

Requirements:

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years' experience
• Relevant experience is work in an engineering discipline, Quality or Supplier Engineering
• Manufacturing industry experience
• Aerospace or commercial equivalent Preventative tools – APQP, PPAP, SPC, FMEA, etc
• Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) or other continuous improvement processes
• Commercial or aerospace / defense Quality Management System regulations and standards- AS9100, AS9102, ISO-9000, AS9145
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Active and existing security clearance required after day 1
• Bachelor's or Advanced Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) Preferred
• Knowledge in hardware inspection techniques
• Six Sigma, Lean and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification (CQE, CQM/OE, CSQE, CQA, CRE, etc.)
• Proven successes in building and maintaining relationships with multiple suppliers / customers
• Experience in DoD product and process oversight including requirements, build, integration, test and delivery
• Experience working remotely
• General Statistical Process Control knowledge, including implementation
• General knowledge of aerospace / defense products and systems technologies
• General knowledge of industry technical standards (such as ANSI, CMMI, ASTM, etc.)
• Strong technical engineer with excellent communication skills that exhibits presence and influence and self-managed technical contributor