Military Engine RMS Project Lead (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-09-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

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

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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?

Engineering Product Integrity has an opening for a Reliability, Safety, and Maintainability (RMS) Project Lead to work on the next generation of Pratt & Whitney military aircraft engines.  This Project Engineering position will support the program RMS Project lead efforts to analyze the system design and establish requirements that drive safety and reliability into the design to ensure the safety of P&W products is world class. The lead will be responsible for technical development of analysis that demonstrates that the system design meets safety and reliability requirements and serves as evidence for certification and/or acceptance by the regulator or acquiring authority.

As a member of a systems team, you will work collaboratively with the best and brightest designers and engineers the industry has to offer.  Together you will analyze the system design and establish requirements that drive safety, reliability and maintainability into the design to ensure the safety of P&W products is world class. Our team is responsible for evaluating the engine design from a system engineering approach and requires a big picture perspective on the design process from beginning to end.

What You Will Do

• Assist the RMS discipline manager with day-to-day leadership of a small project team (3-5 heads) in executing the safety, reliability and maintainability processes on an engine development program.  
• Be the PW focal for Reliability, Safety and Maintainability to the engine development program, supporting P&W Integrated Product Teams, Program Chief Engineer, Airframe manufacturers, Suppliers, and Customers in reviewing, assessing, and influencing engine designs to optimize safety-related metrics and assure safety certification requirements (Mil-Hdbk-516C and Mil-Std-882) are met.
• Lead and contribute to reliability and safety design requirements based on derivation of the customer specification, creating reliability, maintainability/human factors, and safety design assessment artifacts in accordance with engineering standard work.
• Drive reliability and safety in subsystem IPT, CIPT and SIPT integration activities, and reviews with internal and external customers and air system contractors.
• Leading Safety and Reliability customer technical interchange meetings, Safety Working Group Meetings, driving reliability and safety in subsystem IPT, CIPT and SIPT integration activities and reviews with internal and external customers and air system contractors.
• Support the program in meeting budget commitments through project planning, earned value analysis, and reporting. Act as the RMS Project Agile Product Owner to lead the integrated team's Agile development efforts in support of program technical, schedule, and cost objectives

Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).
• 8 years of experience in Engineering or 5 years of engineering experience with an advance degree.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen. This position will require access to systems/tools that are restricted to individuals who possess US citizenship.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience delivering presentations at all leadership levels.
• Experience with military aircraft and or engine engineering processes.
• Experience using or developing reliability tools and processes such as Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) or Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA).
• Experience in Microsoft Office tools (specifically Excel) and electronic databases to perform quantitative reliability and safety analysis.
• Experience in Model Based System Engineering methodology. Familiarity with Cameo Systems Modeler.

What We Offer

• Relocation Eligibility

Learn More & Apply Now!

Department/Segment Overviews -PSCV and Engineering Quality ensures flight safety and compliance by validating and certifying products, engineering processes, and services that meet regulatory, engineering, and customer requirements to safeguard our employees, customers, and the flying public.

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:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance workers, as they are essential to the development of our engines

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.

This position is open to internal applicants only within Pratt & Whitney.  To help shore up our military programs, we are looking to reallocate resources to USG direct charging roles and therefore consider this to be an internal to Pratt movement.  We may look to open these opportunities upon more broadly once we complete the initial Pratt talent moves.  

The salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 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/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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