Director Supplier Quality Assurance

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations, and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

This is a remote position requiring U.S. citizenship. The successful candidate must reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories).

About the role

The Director of Supplier Quality Assurance is a key member of the Supplier Performance leadership team, responsible for a defined portion of Raytheon’s total supplier base. You will drive proactive and reactive quality assurance activities, ensuring continuous capability and performance improvements. You will implement Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) across suppliers, ensuring compliance with technical, contractual, and regulatory requirements, as well as ensuring adequate capacity at the supplier and their sub-tiers. You will protect Raytheon’s production and reduce risk across all programs and businesses.

Success will be measured in timely delivery of quality-assured products (FAI and first-time yield of FAI), ongoing supplier quality performance, and improvements measured in escapes and PPM. You will be accountable for developing and executing the Supplier Assurance strategy, enhancing supplier capability across a wide selection of production technologies. The director also builds, mentors, and grows a highly capable team to support long-term business objectives.

Ability to travel 50% of the time to supplier locations as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead qualification, assessment, and selection of program-specific suppliers, including evaluation of capabilities, performance history, and understanding of flow-down requirements.
• Oversee ongoing independent assessments of supplier quality and technical performance to ensure delivery of known-good parts and services throughout the acquisition value stream.
• Implement and sustain APQP and statistical process control methodologies across the supply base.
• Partner closely with Programs, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and Quality to drive supplier execution strategies and achieve SBU goals.
• Lead Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for systemic or high-risk supplier issues.
• Represent Raytheon on corporate sourcing and performance teams, translating corporate initiatives into supplier-level execution.
• Manage supplier technical and quality risks affecting cost, schedule, and performance across more than $10B in annual material sales.
• Develop, mentor, and grow a geographically and technologically diverse team, improving overall organizational capability.
• Serve as the senior interface with supplier executive leadership, customers, and corporate stakeholders, actively negotiating terms and managing divergent viewpoints when resolving performance gaps.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience.
• 14+ years of experience applying APQP, statistical process controls, RCCA, and other quality methodologies.
• Experience within aerospace and defense or similarly complex industries.
• Experience leading and mentoring technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of multi-level teams (direct, indirect, matrixed) in a complex, global environment.
• Strong organizational partnership skills across engineering, operations, supply chain, program management, and finance.
• Ability to negotiate complex supplier performance issues and influence outcomes at executive levels.
• Experience managing suppliers across multiple regions and international markets.
• Background supporting defense programs, including familiarity with regulatory, contractual, and customer-specific requirements.
• Demonstrated capability building high-performing teams in technical, mission-critical domains.

Pay

The salary range for this role is 186,200 USD - 353,800 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and 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 (eligibility dependent on role level and collective-bargaining agreement status).