Associate Director of Systems Engineering - Chief Engineer at Raytheon

Date Posted:

2024-06-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CO102: 16800 E Centretech Pkwy,Aurora 16800 East Centretech Pkwy Building S75, Aurora, CO, 80011 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.  

What You Will Do:

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Systems Engineering - Chief Engineer. In this role, you will lead a program inserting critical capabilities and supporting integration into the enterprise in a capacity based, agile sustainment framework.

As the Chief Engineer you will be responsible for the technical follow through of the program, including leading sustainment efforts, providing support to operations and sustainment phases, achieving Ready to Transition to Operations (RTO), achieving Constellation Transfer (CTX) as well as Operational Acceptance (OA).

As Chief Engineer you will provide technical direction and clarification of the backlog to the product teams, lead analyses including and trade studies. You will be the definitive authority as it relates to the prioritization of the  backlog and ensuring that priority is communicated to the product teams.  In addition, you will interface with key Raytheon and Government leaders as well as personnel from other organizations and represent the program at technical interchange meetings.  This includes coordination with the Government chief engineer and coming to a mutual understanding of the program priorities and program roadmap.

Responsibilities to Anticipate:

• Establish and manage a product vision, strategy, and goals to align the Program with the Customer and facilitate conflict resolution.
• Identify projects, enterprise and technology needs affecting the definition of the appropriate lifecycle model and uses these in decision making.
• Support technical interchange meetings with program management and the customer and represents the organization in matters pertaining to the development of the project.
• Develop program growth strategies and supports capture/proposal efforts.
• Establish and maintains the program technical baseline.
• This position is an onsite role at our Aurora, CO (Denver area) campus with travel as required to deployed locations.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a bachelor’s in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior engineering experience.
• Active and transferable Secret Clearance is required prior to start date. 
• Experience with cross domain engineering roles and functions, with specific experience in one or more of the following areas: mission operations and sustainment, operations concept development, requirements administration, functional analysis/synthesis, system interfaces, and system verification and validation.
• 5 – 10 years’ experience working with cyber security customers and responding to cyber security related requirements
• Experience in an agile - devops environment, coordinating with a Chief Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Product Owners as well as product technical leads.
• Experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience providing technical direction and clarification of requirements and design to the entire Program team, including Systems Engineers, Software Development, and Integration & Test teams.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation skills to communicate status, issues, and resolution plans across all major stakeholders including Raytheon senior stakeholders, customers, and major subcontractors.
• SME level expertise in one of the following: Mission Engineering, Mission Management, Command and Telemetry processing.
• Experience in Satellite Command/Control, Mission Management or Flight Dynamics domain.
• Experience leading a diverse engineering team.
• Experience working in a multi-discipline environment.
• Experience working BOE development.

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond 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.

Clearance Information:

This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance. The Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm

Location Information:

• Aurora, CO: https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/raytheon-aurora-co-location

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The salary range for this role is 143,000 USD - 287,000 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.

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.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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