Director, Engineering Workforce Enablement

About the role

This position is a hybrid role located in various locations 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.