F135 Data Correction Senior Manager (Onsite)

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. Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems, revolutionizing modern flight for over 100 years. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

About the Role

Pratt & Whitney is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Issue Containment to lead a dedicated cross-functional team responsible for maintaining airworthiness, flight safety, and system reliability across the global F135 fleet. This role is ideal for leaders capable of influencing non-direct report personnel to collaborate on projects that identify weaknesses between explicit group responsibilities. It will best suit someone with a background in systems engineering, military engine programs, or complex aerospace sustainment environments who thrives in technical, highly collaborative, and safety-focused environments.

The Data Integrity Assurance Team serves as a core flight safety function — identifying, containing, and eliminating data integrity issues that could impact fleet readiness or airworthiness. Your work directly affects the safety of pilots, the reliability of the F135, and the confidence of the international warfighter community. This is a strategic technical leadership role with high visibility to executive leadership, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), government customers, and engineering functions across the Military Engines portfolio. You will be at the forefront of identifying and remediating erroneous data within Pratt & Whitney and Military Engine Customer data systems.

This role is onsite at our East Hartford, CT location. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract. Travel is up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Technical Leadership: Lead and integrate escape managers, incident investigators, and data monitoring/correction teams. Drive a cohesive, systems-level approach to data integrity issue identification, bounding, correction, and communication.
• Root Cause & Fault Analysis: Oversee investigations of data integrity incidents, including evaluation of causal factors, fault-tree analysis, and determination of required corrective actions. Work closely with engineering, quality, logistics, and sustainment SMEs to validate technical findings.
• Fleet-Level Systems Thinking: Direct population bounding assessments across the F135 fleet, applying systems engineering principles to evaluate read-across implications and ensure issues are thoroughly contained.
• Time-Phased Corrective Action Planning: Develop prioritized, sustainable plans for monitoring and correcting data disconnects. Ensure actions are integrated across P&W systems, customer systems, and fleet management tools.
• Data Quality and Product Safety Stewardship: Enforce robust controls on data integrity within the broader product safety and quality governance framework. Shepherd issues through full lifecycle correction processes across internal and external sustainment systems.
• High-Visibility Stakeholder Communication: Deliver clear, concise briefings to internal leadership, F135 program management, and JPO/government partners. Present issue status, metrics, dashboards, burndown charts, investigations, and containment plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10 years of experience in engineering, project/program management, operations, or supply chain/logistics, or an advanced degree with 7 years of experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Human Factors, Business, or Management.
• Experience within Pratt & Whitney Military Engines organizational structures.
• Experience with PowerBI, PowerAutomate, SharePoint.
• ERP/CMMS data analysis experience.
• AGILE project management experience.
• Active Security Clearance.

Pay

The salary range for this role is 132,400 USD - 251,600 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

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.