Date Posted:

2025-02-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HMN01: S&IS (Sensors) - Burnsville 14300 Judicial Rd, Burnsville, MN, 55306 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

The Senior Manager - New Product Introduction (NPI) will lead a team focused on ensuring a smooth transition of product designs into operations. This will drive operational predictability and repeatability, ultimately enhancing customer value. Your team will foster collaboration between Operations, Engineering, and Product Line Management throughout the development and transition of new products, influencing buy-in from all stakeholders to ensure manufacturability and readiness for high-rate production.

You will track day-to-day program and project status, support both internal and external customer meetings, ensure process compliance, assist with annual NPI strategic and financial planning, and serve as the primary point of contact for product transitions across sites.

As a manager, you will focus on individual employee development through coaching, mentoring, training, and career development plans. You'll optimize daily team performance, manage talent acquisition and retention, and ensure effective resource management. Your success will depend on building strong partnerships based on trust, transparency, and clear communication, using an inclusive and diplomatic approach to influence stakeholders.

Key skills for success include the ability to envision and implement strategic innovations and the agility to lead effectively in a matrixed environment, driving change to achieve organizational goals.

What You Will Do:

Serve as a liaison between Operations, Program Management, Design Engineering, and the end customer for bids and proposals with minimal oversight from management. Captures team involvement including proposal development, oral presentations, and financial planning.Ensure the Operations voice is considered in development decision-making. Build a collaborative working environment to accomplish team goals. Development and coordination of a new product introduction team. Oversight of the early builds, transition build team, and activities. Prioritize human resources to meet business objectives. Responsible for the selection of new employees as well as the development and performance management of current employees. Contribute to the development, modification, and review of New Product Introduction systems, processes, reporting methods, and tools. Support yearly Strategic and Operational Financial Planning activities. Commitment to 100% internal and external customer satisfaction, understanding the customer's needs, and providing exceptional goods and services. Familiar with the various aspects of engineering design, product development, design to cost (DTC), design for manufacture (DFM), design for testability (DFT), and product prototyping processes. Ensure Operations considerations such as producibility, testability, design to cost, component obsolescence, and other factors are considered early in the design development process. 5-10% domestic travel may be required.

Qualifications You Must Have:

2+ years of leadership experience.Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience. U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required.  https://wwurrew.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62  

Qualifications We Prefer:

STEM Degree or Technical Acumen.  New Product Introduction experience. Manufacturing Acumen. Proficiency in Collins Management System / RTX Lifecycle Program Management or similar platforms.Experience in applying CORE or APQP principles. Project / Program Management experience. Strategic thinking and leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate teams. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to drive collaboration across departments. Demonstrated ability to navigate complex challenges and drive positive change. 

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

Medical, dental, and vision insuranceThree weeks of vacation for newly hired employeesGenerous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy optionEmployee Scholar Program, tuition reimbursement programLife insurance and disability coverageOptional coverages you can buy: Pet Insurance, Home and Auto, additional life insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legalOvia Health, fertility and family planningEmployee Assistance Plan, including up to 5 free counseling sessionsIncentives for a Healthy YouBright Horizons, back-up child / elder care and college coach resourcesAutism BenefitDoctor on Demand, virtual doctor visitsAdoption AssistanceTeladoc Medical Experts, second opinion programAnd more!

May be eligible for relocation.

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Minimum Program Qualifications

Be on a career break of one or more year at time of applicationHave prior experience in functional area of interestHave interest in returning in either a full-time or part-time position

Avionics delivers advanced cockpit displays, vision systems, and comprehensive digital solutions for global government, commercial and business aviation customers. We provide connectivity and managed data services to ensure safety and seamless communication for passengers, crews, and militaries, from aircraft and airports to air traffic management. Join us in creating solutions that connect the world, one flight at a time. Start your application today. 

Collins Aerospace makes modern flight possible. Of course, that wouldn’t be possible without the capabilities and technologies of our organization, as well as our engineers – a highly skilled, accomplished network that spans more than 180 sites, 24 countries and 6 Strategic Business Units (SBUs).

Our industry-leading experts are setting the standards for the aerospace industry and paving the way for the future. But as new challenges present themselves, we need fresh, creative and motivated minds to overcome these hurdles, help us break barriers and achieve new levels of innovation. Do you have what it takes to join a global, diverse organization that doesn’t shy away from big opportunities? If so, we invite you to join our ranks and create the next generation of aerospace technologies.

Together, we will nurture an engineering culture that values intellectual curiosity, risk takers and integrity. A place where we will challenge ourselves, our teams, and the status quo and where we will work to find a way – the right way – to achieve what others can only dream of.

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. 

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

The salary range for this role is 124,000 USD - 250,000 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. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

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.

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