Senior Manager – Supplier Development Lead
RTX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $124,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead internal and supplier containment actions in collaboration with Operations and Quality
- Facilitate supplier kick-off meetings to align expectations and establish rapid response actions
- Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations to resolve critical quality or delivery issues
- Coordinate with stakeholders to develop and implement improvement plans and ensure clear communication through plan review checkpoints
- Monitor leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess progress
- Evaluate whether exit criteria have been achieved for containment efforts
- Escalate persistent issues to crisis mode or tiger teams when warranted
- Partner with Commodity Teams and SBUs to ensure closed-loop feedback and transition to sustainable operations
- Lead supplier site identification and prioritize development efforts aligned with risk, impact, and strategic commodity needs
- Conduct supplier assessments using OCRA (Operational Capability & Risk Assessment) tool
- Engage suppliers with development roadmaps, training, and targeted actions tied to maturity models and long-term growth
- Align with Commodity Managers and Engineering teams on supplier readiness for new programs or volume ramp-ups
- Facilitate structured improvement plan development, KPI tracking, and gate reviews
- Monitor progress toward achieving target maturity levels and initiate sustainment planning once development objectives are met
- Support long-term monitoring and re-engagement cycles to ensure supplier performance remains stable
- Develop and build manufacturing process technology tools and standardization include FMEA and Control Plans
- Provide leadership and/or support for supplier transitions, ensuring a smooth handover of work scope with minimal disruption
- Support the sustainment phase by monitoring supplier maturity post-transition and ensuring long-term capability
- Align with internal business units and suppliers to reinforce performance expectations and continuous improvement efforts
- Execute APQP for new product launch and work transition projects
Requirements
- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience
- Background/experience within Operations, Supplier Development, and/or Project Management
- Experience working within the aerospace industry or similar manufacturing environment
- Lean, Six Sigma and/or Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) experience
- Experience working with cross-functional personnel, including ability to develop a network of relationships with the various Collins Aerospace business units
- Ability to apply CORE principles/tools to manage processes, ensuring continuous improvement in the systems and benchmarking best practices enhancing customer satisfaction at all levels
- Experience in Machining or Mechanical Fabrication
- Ability to travel to supplier sites as needed - minimum of 50% of time.
Benefits
- 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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA)Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)Operational Capability & Risk Assessment (OCRA)FMEAControl PlansLeanSix SigmaMachiningMechanical FabricationAPQP
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationnetworkingcontinuous improvementstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingproject managementrelationship developmentstrategic thinking