Associate Director, Edge Resiliency Maturity and Operations Team Lead

Associate Director, Edge Resilience Maturity And Operations

We are seeking an Associate Director, Edge Resilience Maturity and Operations team lead to evaluate facilities, DT infrastructure, data center management, and manufacturing support. This role focuses on assessing factory maturity, enhancing IT infrastructure, and standardizing operational support models to drive efficiency and scalability. The candidate will execute long-term strategies and short- to medium-term plans, solve complex technical challenges, and influence executive leadership to align operations with business objectives. Leadership responsibilities include workforce planning, team development, and driving continuous improvement across the organization.

What You Will Do :

• Lead a team focused on Factory Maturity and Operations
• Perform comprehensive evaluations to assess the current state of factory operations, technology adoption, and overall maturity against industry benchmarks.
• Lead the deployment of edge stack technologies and associated digital tools to enhance factory automation, connectivity, and data processing capabilities.
• Drive change management efforts, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and training initiatives, to ensure smooth adoption of new technologies and processes.
• Maintain data to support dashboards to provide real-time visibility into factory performance, deployment progress, and key metrics related to resilience and maturity.
• Work closely with engineering, IT, operations, and other functional teams to ensure alignment between technology deployments and business objectives.
• Evaluate potential risks associated with technology adoption and factory maturity upgrades and implement strategies to mitigate these risks effectively.
• Create detailed roadmaps to enhance site resilience, focusing on areas such as cybersecurity, system redundancies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in manufacturing processes, leveraging data from edge technologies to optimize efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Ensure that factory technologies, processes, and assessments comply with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and RTX policies.
• Prepare and deliver regular updates, presentations, and reports for senior leadership, highlighting progress on factory maturity, technology deployments, and resilience-building efforts.

Qualifications You Must Have :

Qualifications We Prefer :

Work Location

This is a hybrid role, eligible candidates must reside and be able to travel to site periodically within commuting distance from Farmington, CT, additional locations will be considered MA, TX, IA, PR.

What We Offer : Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work / life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child / adult backup care.

The salary range for this role is 147,000 USD - 295,000 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.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.