Principal Engineer – One Shots

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At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. 

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The Energetics and Propulsion Department is an engineering organization in the Hardware Engineering Directorate. This Department is responsible for the full spectrum of warhead, fuzing, and propulsion designs/technology, including power systems, ignition, and all other weapon initiation safety systems technology. The department is seeking to hire a Principal Engineer - One Shots.

What you will do:

Apply and/or develop advanced one shot devices technologies using scientific principles, theories and concepts implementation into products

Provide technical oversight to various subcontractors

Manage subcontract suppliers to specify and deliver required subsystem components on schedule and on budget

Frequently interface with the customer to identify user needs

Technical oversight of our power source batteries development programs

You will ensure two-way communication management; serve as the day-to-day liaison to the programs concerning resource technical assignments

Contribute to technology development roadmaps

Support failure analysis and corrective action through redesign of failed one shot device components or systems

Present one shot device design models and supporting analyses/test results to internal and customer review meetings

Support proposals requiring one shots technologies

Support development of Critical Item Development Specifications (CIDS)

Oversee fact-finding and contract negotiations

Test data reduction

Ensure technical rigor and depth of all deliverables

Must be willing to travel to suppliers and government facilities

Technical management of subcontracts on Government programs

Proposal and cost preparation, requirements definition, and one shot device subsystems analysis, test and verification; operational test support; supplier collaboration

The Principal Engineer – One Shots job is in Tucson, AZ and the position is onsite.

Qualifications You Must Have:

Typically requires a Bachelor in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience. In absence of a degree, 12+ years of experience. An advanced degree in a related field may be substituted for additional years of experience.

Experience in development of solid propulsion systems.

Qualifications We Prefer:

Ten (10) or more years of directly related experience in propulsive technology and its application to solid or liquid, and/or mono propellant propulsion systems

Systems knowledge to assure full development of propulsion requirements and dissemination and flow down to subcomponent levels

Project engineering skills and experience using Earned Value Management System

Demonstrated success as a proposal/cost