[Hiring] Principal Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer @RTX

Role Description

We are seeking a Principal Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer to support supplier quality, development, and continuous improvement across our aerospace and defense operations, with a specialized focus on machining commodities. In this role, you will partner with suppliers and cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturing processes, products, and materials meet quality standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations. You will lead supplier quality initiatives, resolve complex quality issues, drive corrective actions, and strengthen supplier capabilities to improve overall quality and delivery performance.

Your mission:

• Drive supplier quality excellence by improving supplier manufacturing capabilities.
• Prevent quality escapes and resolve complex quality issues.
• Implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions that strengthen product quality, operational performance, and customer satisfaction.

This is a remote position, with a preference for candidates located in Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; or Los Angeles, California. This position requires approximately 50% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related STEM field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in supplier quality engineering, supplier development, manufacturing quality, or a related supply chain operations environment.
• Experience with quality regulations, quality core tools, and methodologies, including APQP, practical problem-solving, AS9100, ISO 9001, PFMEA, Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and risk management.
• Experience monitoring supplier performance, conducting audits and assessments, and developing corrective actions or recovery plans to mitigate supplier and industrial risks.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Requirements

• Experience working in the aerospace and defense industry or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of machining processes, manufacturing operations, and supplier process capabilities.
• Experience with supplier quality tools and methodologies, including Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Gemba walks, and structured problem-solving techniques such as A3 and 8D.
• Experience leading supplier audits, qualification, certification, source inspections, corrective action boards, and supplier recovery initiatives.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve complex quality issues and improve supplier performance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Four weeks of PTO 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!