Senior Value Stream Lead

About the Role

Raytheon Circuit Card Manufacturing is seeking an experienced and results-driven Value Stream Lead to manage and oversee our Surface Mount Technology Value Stream. As a senior leader, you will drive operational excellence, ensure timely delivery of high-quality products, lead cross-functional teams, and manage end-to-end processes within the value stream to meet customer requirements. This role will play a critical part in achieving our goals in efficiency, quality, and cost management while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

• Operational Leadership: Lead all aspects of the Front-End Process, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives, customer commitments, and operational targets.
• Value Stream Planning: Develop and execute production schedules, capacity planning, workforce planning, and resource allocation to meet demand while optimizing productivity and costs.
• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, including operators, engineers, and technical support staff. Foster collaboration and accountability across the team.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement Lean principles, CORE methodologies, and other best practices to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and improve product quality.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with internal quality standards and external customer requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, production control, quality, and other cross business teams to resolve issues, improve processes, and drive innovation within the value stream.
• Metrics and Reporting: Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), including safety, on-time delivery, yield, cycle time, Unit Hour performance, COPQ, and customer satisfaction.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to production schedules, yield issues, and technical challenges.
• Customer Focus: Serve as the primary interface with internal NHA customers, ensuring clear communication and alignment to expectations.
• Growth: Lead the team through a period of rapid growth, process migration and new capital release to production.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires university degree or equivalent experience and minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and 7 years of experience
• Experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Production, Engineering, Quality, Program and/or project management

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience working with aerospace and defense industry standards or customers
• Familiarity with advanced manufacturing technologies, automation, and Industry 4.0 initiatives
• Proven track record of managing multi-million-dollar value streams successfully
• Expertise in back-end semiconductor manufacturing processes, including [assembly, packaging, testing, etc.]
• Proficient in data analysis tools, ERP/MRP systems, and production planning software
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• EVMS certification
• High computer literacy and with confidence and skill working with Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Excel, Project and familiarity with Raytheon systems (PRISM, PDM, CMES)
• Experience utilizing lean manufacturing concepts with a proven track record of lean or CORE/six sigma project implementation
• Metrics-driven

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

• Medical, dental, vision, and 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

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.

Schedule

This is an onsite role. Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.