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As Chief Engineer, you will lead all engineering efforts for a major program, serving as the technical authority and key liaison with customers, partners, and suppliers. You’ll drive product improvement, reliability, and cost initiatives while ensuring technical performance, schedule, and compliance.

In this role, you’ll guide a cross-functional team through the full development lifecycle—managing risk, leading trade studies, and driving resolution of technical issues. Youll oversee system requirements, Earned Value tracking, and the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring engineering delivers on time and on target.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone ready to shape solutions, influence strategy, and deliver excellence.

What You Will Do

• Provide engineering leadership for the assigned program scope

• Identify and coordinate Service Interrupt, Removal, and Production reviews related to ongoing reliability

• Drive product improvement initiatives

• Serve as the technical focal point for the program, customers, partners, and suppliers

• Define and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

• Coordinate product cost and life cycle cost initiatives

• Maintain the Program Risk Register

• Track engineering and technical performance metrics

• Lead and direct technical system-level trade studies

• Ensure technical requirements, scope, and goals are met on schedule and within budget

• Ensure compliance with Collins engineering processes and program contracts

• Lead the engineering team in support of proposals, assertions, and negotiations

• Manage engineering performance to plan, including resource utilization, cost, and schedule commitments

• Lead engineering efforts through all phases of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) process

• Coordinate and drive the definition, approval, and distribution of system requirements

• Facilitate resolution of technical conflicts and issues

• Ensure development and maintenance of technical risk analysis and gap closure plans

• Lead internal and customer technical and design reviews

• Lead Earned Value (EV) processes, including bi-weekly performance reviews, schedule updates, and estimate-to-complete assessments

• Collaborate with SIPTs and CAMs to identify variances, root causes, corrective actions, and program impacts

• Capture and disseminate lessons learned within assigned scope

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience

Qualifications We Prefer

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related technical field

• Proven project management experience, including leading cross-functional teams

• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering teams through design and development projects

• Experience in the aerospace industry

• Familiarity with industry design standards and regulatory requirements

• Knowledge of FAA conformity rules and certification processes

• Strong ability to manage multiple concurrent medium- to large-scale development programs

• Experience supporting production and supply chain operations

What We Offer

Benefits

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! 

May be eligible for relocation

Learn More & Apply Now!

We make modern flight possible for millions of travelers and our military every second.  Our major product lines are on-board virtually every aircraft flying. Be it keeping passengers safe with our emergency power generation systems or creating a positive in flight experience through reliable cabin pressure controls and quieter engines, Power & Controls focuses on delivering a best-in-class experience to our customers. We hire the top people in the industry. Their ideas drive our performance, and their integrity keeps our customers happy. Join us as we take flight!

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.

Onsite: 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.

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.

The salary range for this role is 124,000 USD - 250,000 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 Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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