Senior Program Quality Lead onsite Tucson, AZ

Program Quality

The Program Quality team in Tucson, AZ, has a vacancy for a Senior Program Quality Lead on the Coyote product line. This role serves as a key member of the program leadership team, ensuring successful program performance by ensuring conforming products and services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures.

What You Will Do

• Lead Quality and Mission Assurance efforts for program bids and proposals, gates and milestone reviews, risk and opportunity management, and program excellence processes.
• Drive compliance with the Raytheon Quality Management System while driving continuous improvement.
• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
• Initiate and perform root cause analysis, facilitate corrective actions, and implement closed loop process controls to improve product/process predictability and capability.
• Implement Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable.

Qualifications

• You must have a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years’ experience.
• Relevant experience is working in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and/or Program Quality Leadership.
• Experience providing quality technical guidance, achieving design, development, and/or manufacturing results.
• Experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience with programs/contracts/efforts that have prototype, development, and/or early manufacturing development content.
• Experience as a Program Quality Lead, including cross-discipline knowledge/experience executing Hardware Quality, Software Quality and/or Supplier Quality (and/or Supplier Assurance).
• Experience with programs/contracts/efforts that require tailoring processes to support rapid development and deployment of complex/critical systems.
• Experience tailoring quality flow downs to suppliers to balance speed vs. risk.
• Experience with rapid development and deployment programs/contracts/efforts.
• Experience negotiating Quality requirements and results with customers to support rapid system development and deployment.
• Experience applying quality requirements and standards, including aerospace, commercial, defense, and/or space standards as well as internal policies, procedures and requirements.
• Experience with contracts / contractual requirements, particularly on U.S. Government contracts.
• Experience driving successful performance of major subcontractors, suppliers and/or IOTs.
• Experience with defense systems throughout the product life cycle, including design, production, installation, integration, test and sustainment.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and documenting problems with requirements, program functionality, and/or software releases.
• Experience defining and evaluating Quality metrics.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally.
• Experience assessing Engineering work products (Peer Reviews, Configuration Control Boards, Code Reviews, Product Readiness and Sale, etc.) to identify and eliminate in-phase defects.
• Experience participating in test preparation and execution to ensure requirements are verified.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
• Experience utilizing data, quality science tools and facilitating cross-functional teams to drive root cause, corrective action, and systematic improvement activities.
• RTX CORE certified and proficient.
• Earned Value certified and proficient.

What We Offer

• Relocation assistance available, provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements.
• Learn more & apply now!