Hybrid Air Valve Project Engineer

at RTX

• Job title: Air Valve Project Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $68,900 - $131,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Windsor Locks, United States

About the role

• Project Engineer leading design, development, and validation of aerospace components for military and commercial aircraft. Ensuring product lifecycle quality and timely delivery with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements management, design, and development of assigned components, ensuring efficient execution across conception, procurement, manufacturing, and qualification.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet requirements, mitigate risks, and achieve project milestones.
• Manage project resources to ensure timely completion of all phases.
• Work with suppliers to resolve producibility questions and concerns.
• Generate and manage hardware change requests with the IPD team, including upgrades, work transfers, and producibility improvements.
• Review customer requirements with the IPD team, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and alignment with project goals.
• Address revisions with Design, Structures, and Systems Engineering teams, managing issues, risks, and approved deviations.
• Coordinate with design, drafting, structures, manufacturing, and quality teams to complete component designs and detailed drawings on schedule.
• Ensure design releases meet lead times for part deliveries.
• Serve as Cost Account Manager (CAM) for assigned components, managing budget, earned value, and scope.
• Monitor project financial health, identify risks to budget or schedule, and report changes accordingly.
• Lead evaluation and development of new technologies, collaborating with local and international teams to advance Technology Readiness Levels (TRL).
• Ensure timely hardware procurement and completion of production processes, including assembly tooling and production definitions, to meet delivery milestones.
• Lead component verification testing, including reviewing requirements, preparing test procedures, managing test fixtures, overseeing inspections, and collaborating with internal and external test facilities.
• Review test data, verify acceptance criteria are met, and generate final test reports for customer submission.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field
• Prior experience in design, development, and validation of aerospace components, with demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering preferred.
• Experience with aerospace pneumatic systems or gas turbine engine components.
• Familiarity with aerospace certification standards (FAA/EASA) and qualification processes.
• Experience in CAD tools (e.g., NX or CATIA) and PLM systems.
• Experience with testing, validation, and data analysis of aerospace hardware.
• Project management experience, including cost, schedule, and risk oversight (EVMS/CAM preferred).
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills in a matrixed environment.

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!