RTX · 22 hours ago
Effector Analog and Power Tech Services Section Lead
RTX is a leading company focused on helping the nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. They are seeking a Laboratory Section Leader to oversee a team of Engineering Support Technicians and Lab Leads, ensuring compliance with engineering requirements, schedules, and budgets while promoting a safe working environment.
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Responsibilities
Owns the quality and performance of the Engineering Support Technicians and ensures the employees and the lab areas that they work in will pass various types of compliance audits at any given time. Audit types may include, but are not limited to; ISO 9001/AS9100, Environmental Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS), Security, Engineering Labs Objective Evaluation (ELOE), Product and Process Verification (PPV), DCMA, and Timecard/Charging
Actively involved in the Engineering leadership for strategic lab planning, including generating and implementing facilities/expense/capital requests
Confident in collaborating with department management and HR to resolve difficult personnel issues fairly and ethically for all parties involved
Will implement company EHSS policies and practices to ensure compliance to provide a safe and secure environment
Support program technical reviews and proposal efforts to identify Lab, equipment, and personnel skill level requirements
Able to understand current staffing level needs and to anticipate future staffing needs of the programs and be able to provide effective and timely staffing solutions
Brings knowledge of tools, processes and enablers that can be used to ensure the employee, the customer, and the department are successful
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience
Experience with timecard systems such as APEX and PRISM
Leadership Experience
Preferred
Experience with metrology requirements and processes including chemical handling requirements and processes including Total Chemical Management Information System (tcmIS), and property control requirements and processes with Uniform Property Systems (UPS)
Candidate should be familiar with Company Directives, Orders, Policies, Manufacturing Processes, and Instructions and know the proper process in locating said documents
Leadership experience and capabilities to lead multifaceted teams
Knowledge of IPC 610 and 620 solder regulations and certification requirements
Knowledge of skills and processes required in CCA solder rework – 0402, 0201 and 01005 size components on multi-layer boards with ground planes
Knowledge of Test Equipment Build Standards such as Raytheon TE-04.03
Knowledge of skills and processes required in wire harness and cable manufacture
Experience leading manufacturing/assembly personnel is beneficial
Able to manage a distributed team supporting multiple programs and projects simultaneously
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and direct others through competing priorities and customers
A minimum of 2 years' experience managing an engineering lab including responsibility for ensuring labs will pass audits
Experience with cost and schedule generation/reporting and knowledge of capital/facilities/expense management tools are required
Experience in recruiting and hiring external talent through interviews and practical assessments
Ability to prioritize and direct others through competing priorities and customers
Experience and knowledge of Performance and Career Development tools to assist employees and self
Experience with MS Word, Project, PowerPoint and Excel
Ability to build a relationship with Labor Relations (HR) management, who enforces the Union contract
Experience in identifying program security requirements and restrictions to match the needs to both the employee and labs that are equipped to address the security level
Awareness of Union environments, and how contracts governing Bargaining Unit work, as well has how that work differs from work performed by non-Bargaining Unit employees
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
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
Company
RTX
RTX is comprised of three market-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon – working as one to answer the biggest questions and solve the hardest problems in aerospace and defense.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.2MKey Investors
LIFT Ecosystem Accelerator
2024-02-22Grant· $0.2M
2019-06-09Acquired
2010-01-14Grant· $3M
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