Chief Engineer (Onsite)

Chief Engineer

As Chief Engineer, you will lead all engineering efforts for a major program, serving as the technical authority and key liaison with customers, partners, and suppliers. You'll drive product improvement, reliability, and cost initiatives while ensuring technical performance, schedule, and compliance.

In this role, you'll guide a cross-functional team through the full development lifecyclemanaging risk, leading trade studies, and driving resolution of technical issues. You'll oversee system requirements, Earned Value tracking, and the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring engineering delivers on time and on target.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone ready to shape solutions, influence strategy, and deliver excellence.

What You Will Do

• Provide engineering leadership for the assigned program scope
• Identify and coordinate Service Interrupt, Removal, and Production reviews related to ongoing reliability
• Drive product improvement initiatives
• Serve as the technical focal point for the program, customers, partners, and suppliers
• Define and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• Coordinate product cost and life cycle cost initiatives
• Maintain the Program Risk Register
• Track engineering and technical performance metrics
• Lead and direct technical system-level trade studies
• Ensure technical requirements, scope, and goals are met on schedule and within budget
• Ensure compliance with Collins engineering processes and program contracts
• Lead the engineering team in support of proposals, assertions, and negotiations
• Manage engineering performance to plan, including resource utilization, cost, and schedule commitments
• Lead engineering efforts through all phases of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) process
• Coordinate and drive the definition, approval, and distribution of system requirements
• Facilitate resolution of technical conflicts and issues
• Ensure development and maintenance of technical risk analysis and gap closure plans
• Lead internal and customer technical and design reviews
• Lead Earned Value (EV) processes, including bi-weekly performance reviews, schedule updates, and estimate-to-complete assessments
• Collaborate with SIPTs and CAMs to identify variances, root causes, corrective actions, and program impacts
• Capture and disseminate lessons learned within assigned scope

Qualifications You Must Have

Qualifications We Prefer

What We Offer

Benefits

Some of our competitive benefits package includes :

The salary range for this role is 124,000 USD - 250,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education / training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and / or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and / or the company's performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.