Director, Engineering Workforce Enablement

About the role

This position is a hybrid role located in the following areas: Tewksbury, MA, Tucson, AZ, Portsmouth, RI, McKinney, TX, Fort Wayne, IN, Huntsville, AL, Aurora, CO or El Segundo/Goleta, CA.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Engineering Workforce Enablement organization, to ensure Engineering has the right talent, capabilities, processes, and capacity to meet current and future business needs.
• Guide development and execution of workforce planning strategies, align critical skills, development, and staffing pipelines with program demand, and drive fulfillment processes that position engineering talent where it is needed most.
• Integrate an enterprise-connected university strategy, strengthening partnerships, cultivating early-career pipelines, and shaping long-term engineering capability development.
• Set the vision for Engineering’s metrics, analytics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks, empowering your team to deliver actionable insights that enhance decision-making and drive operational predictability.
• Provide executive leadership across bid, pursuit, and program execution readiness, ensuring optimized processes and align workforce resources to support major proposals and ongoing execution.
• Cultivate an engaged, innovative, and high-performing engineering organization by coaching your leaders on people engagement strategies that improve culture, retention, development, and organizational health.
• Partner across Raytheon, RTX, and functional partners to harmonize processes, implement enterprise frameworks, and influence cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Lead your organization in driving initiatives that enhance workforce effectiveness, strengthen performance, and improve execution outcomes across the entire engineering community.

Qualifications

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 14 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• You must have leadership experience within engineering, digital technology, operations, program management, or similar technical organizations.
• You must have experience leading teams and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• You must have experience using metrics to inform decisions and strong analytical capabilities.
• You must have experience working in large, matrixed organizations; aerospace/defense background strongly preferred.
• You must have experience balancing strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• You must have the ability to obtain a U.S. government issued Secret security clearance after start date.
• You must be a U.S. citizen, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.