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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in Materials Engineering, including materials design, qualification, and advanced manufacturing processes. Proven ability to lead strategic technology initiatives and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Expert-Level Knowledge In Materials EngineeringExperience With Additive ManufacturingExceptional Executive-Level Communication SkillsActive DoD Secret ClearanceExperience Leading Technical Teams
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Hard Skills
Materials DesignQualificationAlloy DevelopmentCoatingsAutomated SynthesisAdditive ManufacturingStrategic Technology RoadmapsCustomer Trend AnalysesSystem-Level Design MethodologiesCost Accounting Structures
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipInfluencing SkillsMentoringRelationship BuildingCommunication
Tools & Technologies
Machine Learning ApplicationsDigital Engineering Workflows
Certifications & Qualifications
STEM DegreeActive DoD Secret Clearance
Industry Keywords
Department Of DefenseDARPADepartment Of EnergyNASAGovernment Research Agencies
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide leadership to company-wide initiatives advancing product technology or discipline capability
- Lead or contribute to RTX-wide initiatives
- Advocate and foster growth opportunities for future RTX technologists
- Partner with senior leadership, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify and communicate strategic customer and business initiatives
- Identify improvement opportunities and projects and help drive the business operations agenda
- Lead development of new approaches to qualification, design, and automated manufacturing
- Build and maintain relationships across departments and business units
- Drive transition of early-stage research into production environments
- Present to internal and external audiences; lead proposal and white paper activities; represent Collins Aerospace at technical conferences and working groups
- Promote key development projects and align them with customer and program objectives
- Engage across RTX Business Units and serve as a recognized technical expert with regulatory bodies, customers, and universities
- Provide technical leadership for high-quality decisions, product competitiveness, and robust solutions
- Share expertise across the enterprise and support TRL/MRL reviews, PDRs, and CDRs
- Lead strategic plans advancing product technology and organizational capability
- Identify external technology disruptors and evaluate strategic applications
- Participate in external technical communities and government standards committees while helping shape emerging technologies
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience creating and maintaining organizational or directorate-level strategic technology roadmaps, customer trend analyses, and assessments of disruptive technologies
- Expert-level knowledge across multiple Materials Engineering disciplines
- Expertise in materials design, qualification, alloy development, coatings, automated synthesis, additive manufacturing, and/or related advanced materials technologies
- Experience establishing or modifying customer requirements, processes, and procedures
- Experience advancing new materials capabilities, manufacturing processes, and/or system-level design methodologies
- Exceptional executive-level communication and influencing skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership through patents, publications, technical presentations, and engagement with industry and government stakeholders
- STEM degree and minimum 14 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree and minimum 12 years of relevant experience
- Active and transferable DoD Secret Clearance required prior to start date
- U.S. citizenship required
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Experience with cost accounting structures and financial systems preferred
- Experience with DARPA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA, or similar government research agencies preferred
- Knowledge of machine learning applications for materials engineering and digital engineering workflows preferred
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing technical teams preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution
- Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, and 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
- Eligible for relocation assistance
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee Scholar Program
- Paid time off and holidays
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available; payments are not guaranteed