Chief Engineer – Commercial Engines
RTX
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Windsor Locks • Connecticut • United States
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Salary
💰 $107,500 - $204,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Represent the engineering organization on the Small Commercial Engines Integrated Program Management Team, ensuring technical priorities are aligned with broader program goals.
- Provide strategic guidance and technical direction to Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), empowering them to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions.
- Oversee key milestones and deliverables by tracking IPT progress, identifying risks early, and driving teams to meet commitments.
- Ensure all program technical requirements, performance targets, and engineering budgets are tracked, managed, and achieved.
- Serve as the central hub for technical communication, internally across engineering and leadership teams, and externally with customers like Pratt & Whitney.
- Coordinate all technical scope changes, ensuring alignment with program leadership and seamless integration into program plans.
- Deliver clear, concise updates to senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and customer stakeholders, both written and verbal.
- Lead the charge on fleet monitoring and field investigations to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Drive root cause and corrective action (RRCA) efforts with a relentless commitment to reliability.
- Maintain and improve fleet reliability metrics to support long-term program success and customer satisfaction.
Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
- Working experience in Project Engineering, Program Management, or similar field.
- Working experience indirectly leading cross-functional teams within a matrixed organization.
- Working Familiarity with control systems for commercial turbofan engines is highly desired, including system-level integration and performance.
- Experience in the design, development, and certification of control system hardware, with an understanding of regulatory and industry standards
- Working knowledge in systems engineering principles, including requirements development, validation, and verification.
- Experience effectively communicating complex technical information across all levels of the organization from engineering teams to executive leadership and external customers.
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 & Tools
Project EngineeringProgram ManagementControl SystemsSystem-Level IntegrationPerformance EngineeringDesign and Development of Control System HardwareRegulatory StandardsSystems Engineering PrinciplesRequirements DevelopmentValidation and Verification
Soft Skills
Strategic GuidanceTechnical DirectionRisk IdentificationCommunicationLeadershipCross-Functional Team LeadershipProblem SolvingCustomer EngagementMilestone TrackingCommitment to Reliability