Program Chief Engineer (Hybrid)

This position is a Senior Principal Engineer/ Program Chief Engineer with deep knowledge and highly technical expertise. The Program Chief Engineer is a team leader that develops product development plans and budgets, performs critical analyses, drives cost and schedule performance, maximizes project profitability, and controls project execution and performance.

Hybrid: Must be a commutable distance from Rockford, IL

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads the Engineering team as the Integrated Program Team (IPT) representative to meet all system requirements during the proposal, system definition, design, verification, manufacturing, and sustainment phases.
• Develops, justifies, and manages the annual budget, and collaborates with the functional managers to secures the necessary resources.
• Develops plans/schedules necessary to meet key programmatic and customer milestones (hardware deliveries, qualification activities, customer lab/flight test A/C support activities).
• Conducts Project Execution – Cost/Schedule/Performance, EVMS, Change Management, Work Scope Control, Risks Management and Mitigation and Standard Work management.
• Creates and monitors key metrics and implements appropriate corrective actions to proactively address negative trends.
• Pursues all recurring and non-recurring cost-saving opportunities to maximize project profitability.
• Performs critical path analysis and prepares and implements work-around plans to ensure the successful completion of projects.
• Leads team meetings to effectively manage projects and communicates written/oral plans and status to all levels of management and to the customer.
• Represents Collins as the primary Engineering contact to the customer. Leads efforts to investigate field performance issues, drives Root-Cause-Corrective Action (RCCAs) and manages action items.
• Supports ongoing Operations and Quality, Supply Chain - driving RCCA investigations, Cost-reduction initiatives, and Zero-defect plans. maintaining a focus on Customer Satisfaction, On-time Delivery and Quality.
• Supports sustainment and service/repair contracts and operations, diminishing manufacturing sources, obsolete product re-introduction and cold-start initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience OR
• Advance degree and 7 years of relevant experience OR
• In absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience is required
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project lead experience
• Experience with scheduling and managing a budget
• Previous design experience
• Previous experience in a customer facing role
• Previous experience leading a team

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions. These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service. Our global team is committed to continuous improvement – we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable and more sustainable in the years to come. We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us!

Collins Aerospace Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace,

and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

• Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
•  And more! 

Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all U.S. positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.

Note:

• Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the U.S.)
• Drug Screen only performed on re-hires who have been gone for more than 1 year

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day

Raytheon Technologies 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.