Senior Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Readiness Level (Hybrid)

Date Posted:

2022-09-14-07:00

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW100: East Hartford 400 Main Street, East Hartford, CT, 06118 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious. 

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

Innovation through diversity of thought. At Pratt & Whitney, we believe diversity of thought enables creativity, innovation, and a foundation for inclusion. By fostering an inclusive culture, we accept a shared accountability and responsibility to recognize, sponsor, coach, hire and promote talent equally. We welcome our employees to be their whole - best - selves at work because trust, respect and integrity, are a part of our DNA.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Pratt & Whitney is seeking an experienced, proactive, and goal-oriented Senior Principal Engineer in our Engineering Support to Operations (ESTO) to lead Engineering’s support to Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) deployment, and execution of key hardware within the Engineering Support to Operations (ESTO) team. Reporting to the Engineering Support to Operations MRL Manager, the Senior Principal Engineer will lead and manage MRL activities for key and critical hardware interfacing with operations, suppliers and be integrated with the manufacturing engineering organization MRL team. The ESTO MRL Senior Project Engineer will be primary owner of key MRL deliverables, planning milestones, risk identification, communication and mitigation via the ESTO MRL organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive ESTO MRL timely advancement performance of assigned parts to drive down defects.

• Self-starter, capable of working well in a team setting and independently as the situation requires.

• Support operations and module center manufacturing engineers to support new product introductions (NPI), source transitions, and technology insertion tasks.

• Report MRL progression status and milestone risks to ESTO senior leadership, internal and external customers.

• Identification and communication of project risks with Core ME, provide notification of risk reduction and/or quality improvement/cost savings opportunities to the operations MRL team senior leadership.

• Provide ESTO team support to all involved departments cohesively.

• Oversee implementation and execution engineering changes.

• Support timely MRL progression and hardware transitions from development to production for assigned hardware.

• Proactively work with suppliers to obtain required data/documentation for MRL progression, defect reduction and process capability improvements, including PFMEA, PCPs, Tool and Gage plans.

• Support, assist process qualification, certification and FAI activities as required.

• Travel up to 10%.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) or relevant degree.

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Engineering or 7+ years relevant experience in Engineering with an advanced degree.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to government contracts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written), work and relate with people at all levels of the organization and be self-sufficient.

• Requires expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

• May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs

  or systems.

• Effective team player, can share, coach and contribute freely in a team setting as needed.

• Excellent knowledge of MS office computer software including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, NX, and Outlook.

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

• ACE/CORE/ 6 Sigma knowledge and/or certification.

• Strong understanding of other continuous improvement skills: DFSS, Red-X, Lean, etc.

What is my role type?

In addition to transforming the future of flight, we are also transforming how and where we work. We’ve introduced role types to help you understand how you will operate in our blended work environment. This role is:

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. This means that responsibilities of the job need to be performed onsite on a regular basis.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

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.

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