Director, Engineering Workforce Enablement

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Engineering Workforce Enablement organization, ensuring 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

• Typically requires 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.
• Leadership experience within engineering, digital technology, operations, program management, or similar technical organizations.
• Experience leading teams and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience using metrics to inform decisions and strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations; aerospace/defense background strongly preferred.
• Experience balancing strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Ability to obtain U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required after start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

What You Will Learn

• How to shape enterprise-level workforce strategies, analytics, and workforce models for a large, multi-disciplinary engineering organization.
• Deep insight into how engineering talent, staffing readiness, and proposal alignment drive Raytheon’s success across pursuits and program execution.
• Cross-business workforce integration strategies across Raytheon and RTX, including university partnerships, development programs, and career pipelines.
• Advanced analytics, forecasting tools, and engineering metric frameworks used to inform strategic decisions.
• Organizational health strategies that influence engagement, retention, and culture.
• Best practices for harmonizing engineering process frameworks across large, matrixed environments in the aerospace and defense sector.

What We Offer

• Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• 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.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.

Pay Range

$186,200 - $353,800 USD

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.