Leadership Development Program - Engineering, Materials & Chemistry Discipline (Starts June 2027)

What You Will Do

Discover an extraordinary opportunity to accelerate your engineering career and develop into a future technical leader at RTX. Our two-year rotational Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) – Materials & Chemistry Discipline provides challenging, high-visibility assignments across the enterprise, allowing you to build a powerful global network.

You will receive high-caliber training, professional mentoring, and frontline, hands-on experience directly within our cutting-edge laboratories, research and development centers, and manufacturing facilities. This fast-paced path expands your business acumen, sharpens your functional expertise, and prepares you to make a lasting impact on our global technology organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete three 8-month rotational assignments across various U.S. locations, adapting quickly to new technology centers, business units, and engineering teams.
• Execute core engineering milestones within one or more specialized program tracks, including materials research and development, destructive and non-destructive testing, chemical analysis, material specification definition, processing, and quality control.
• Stretch your professional and technical capabilities by taking ownership of frontline, hands-on chemical and materials engineering deliverables and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, mechanical, systems, and quality engineering teams to evaluate material performance and optimize component processing.
• Present technical data, failure analysis findings, and strategic material review updates clearly and effectively to varied stakeholders and leadership teams.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major. Degree must be obtained by start date.
• Willing and able to operationally relocate to various RTX geographic locations across the United States for three distinct 8-month program assignments.
• Experience or academic coursework in destructive or non-destructive material evaluation techniques, such as metallography, microscopy (SEM/optical), mechanical testing (tensile, hardness), or spectroscopy (FTIR, EDS).
• Experience or academic coursework across one or more fundamental chemical and materials domains, including chemical synthesis, laboratory characterization, materials thermodynamics, physical metallurgy, polymer chemistry, or corrosion engineering.
• Experience or coursework utilizing statistical analysis and data evaluation tools, such as Minitab, MATLAB, Python, or JMP.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Active U.S. government secret security clearance.
• Self-motivated and team-oriented work style with the agility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic technology and engineering environment.
• Experience or academic coursework with aerospace-grade materials, advanced composites, superalloys, or specialized coatings.
• Experience or coursework in material manufacturing processes, heat treatment, surface finishing, or chemical processing.
• Practical exposure to failure analysis protocols, destructive testing environments, or laboratory safety systems.
• Hands-on laboratory testing, prototyping, or assembly experience working directly with physical chemical systems or material hardware.
• Prior experience as an engineering intern or co-op within an RTX business unit (Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, or Raytheon).

What We Offer

• Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.
• Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• RTX leadership, functional and business acumen training.
• Upon program completion, LDP graduates possess a solid platform of skills & experiences to launch a successful RTX career & receive continued mentorship.
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