Director, Engineering Workforce Enablement

Strategic Workforce Leadership Role

At RTX, the world's 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 opportunities no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

This position is a hybrid role located in the following areas: Tewksbury, MA, Tucson, AZ, Portsmouth, RI, McKinney, TX, Fort Wayne, IN, Huntsville, AL, Aurora, CO or El Segundo/Goleta, CA.

What You Will Do

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Engineering Workforce Enablement organization, to ensure Engineering has the right talent, capabilities, processes, and capacity to meet current and future business needs.
• Guide development and execution of workforce planning strategies, align critical skills, development, and staffing pipelines with program demand, and drive fulfillment processes that position engineering talent where it is needed most.
• Integrate an enterprise-connected university strategy, strengthening partnerships, cultivating early-career pipelines, and shaping long-term engineering capability development.
• Set the vision for Engineering's metrics, analytics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks, empowering your team to deliver actionable insights that enhance decision-making and drive operational predictability.
• Provide executive leadership across bid, pursuit, and program execution readiness, ensuring optimized processes and align workforce resources to support major proposals and ongoing execution. Central to the role is cultivating an engaged, innovative, and high-performing engineering organization by coaching your leaders on people engagement strategies that improve culture, retention, development, and organizational health.
• Partner across Raytheon, RTX, and functional partners to harmonize processes, implement enterprise frameworks, and influence cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Lead your organization in driving initiatives that enhance workforce effectiveness, strengthen performance, and improve execution outcomes across the entire engineering community.

What You Will Learn

• How to shape enterprise-level workforce strategies, analytics, and workforce models for a large, multi-disciplinary engineering organization.
• Deep insight into how engineering talent, staffing readiness, and proposal alignment drive Raytheon's success across pursuits and program execution.
• Cross-business workforce integration strategies across Raytheon and RTX, including university partnerships, development programs, and career pipelines.
• Advanced analytics, forecasting tools, and engineering metric frameworks used to inform strategic decisions.
• Organizational health strategies that influence engagement, retention, and culture.
• Best practices for harmonizing engineering process frameworks across large, matrixed environments in the aerospace and defense sector.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 14 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Leadership experience within engineering, digital technology, operations, program management, or similar technical organizations.
• Experience leading teams and drive complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience using metrics to inform decisions and strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations; aerospace/defense background strongly preferred.
• Experience balancing strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Ability to obtain U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required after start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Advanced degree (MS, ME, MBA, or related).
• Experience leading workforce planning, workforce strategy, or engineering operations teams.
• Familiarity with proposal development, staffing alignment, and pursuit readiness processes.
• Expertise with engineering analytics platforms, dashboards, or workforce modeling tools.
• Experience establishing university pipelines or technical partnership programs.
• Demonstrated success standardizing processes across multiple business units or sites.
• Experience with RTX enterprise systems, frameworks, or capability development programs.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.