Leadership Development Program

About the Role

Discover an extraordinary opportunity to accelerate your engineering career and develop into a future operational leader at RTX. Our Operations Leadership Development Program (OLDP)-Supply Chain Track provides challenging, high-visibility assignments across the enterprise, allowing you to build a powerful global network. You will receive high-caliber training, professional mentoring, and frontline, hands-on engineering experience directly on our manufacturing shop floors. This fast-paced path expands your business acumen, sharpens your technical expertise, and prepares you to make a lasting impact on our global operations. Actively recruiting for the next cohort and program that begins June 2027.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete three 8-month rotational assignments across various U.S. locations, adapting quickly to new manufacturing facilities, business units, and operational quality teams.
• Execute core engineering duties and technical milestones within one or more specialized quality disciplines, including Operations Quality, Supplier Quality, Regulatory Compliance, Escape Management, Continuous Improvement, and Customer/Program Quality.
• Participate in frontline, hands-on shop floor assignments to identify, analyze, and resolve technical quality challenges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and drive performance, process safety, and product quality improvements across production environments and development labs.
• Support regulatory compliance audits, escape management investigations, and root-cause analysis to ensure product integrity and minimize operational risk.
• Leverage engineering and data analytics tools to optimize quality planning, evaluate operational metrics, and eliminate process waste.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business Administration, Economics, Industrial Engineering, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major. Degree must be obtained by start date.
• Willing and able to operationally relocate to various RTX geographic locations across the United States for three distinct 8-month program assignments.
• Strong analytical and data literacy skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Excel (such as utilizing pivot tables and lookups) or other business intelligence and data analysis tools.
• Demonstrated experience presenting/communicating technical or operational data to external stakeholders, peer groups, leadership, or customers OR holding a designated leadership/coordinator role within a student organization, design team (e.g., Formula SAE), or project group.
• Relevant internship/co-op or work experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, logistics, manufacturing or related industries. Experience may be obtained through on-the-job experience, research, coursework, or projects.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Self-motivated and team-oriented work style with the agility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic manufacturing and operations environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven capability to interface and collaborate comfortably with all levels of management, shop floor personnel, and external vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance or successfully execute milestones within cross-functional project teams.
• Strong project management capabilities with a demonstrated track record of taking initiative and organizing project deliverables.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for project tracking and reporting.
• Baseline familiarity or prior experience working within enterprise resource planning (ERP) architectures such as SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Practical exposure to core sourcing and procurement workflows, including RFQ/RFP generation, supplier negotiations, or purchase order management frameworks.
• Foundational continuous improvement credentials, such as a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt certification.
• Familiarity or academic exposure to business intelligence and data analytics platforms, including Power BI, Tableau, QuickBase, Qlik, SQL, or Python.
• Prior RTX internship, co-op, or work experience.

What We Offer

• RTX leadership, functional and business acumen training.
• Upon program completion, LDP graduates possess a solid platform of skills & experiences to launch a successful RTX career & receive continued mentorship.
• The salary range for this role is 59,000 USD - 139,000 USD.
• 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.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.