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Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management to lead customer-focused program execution at our Durham, NH site, connecting business priorities with the day-to-day work required to deliver on commitments.

This role serves as a central point of alignment across Operations, SIOP, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and Contracts, with responsibility for translating delivery constraints, program risks, and changing priorities into clear execution plans. You will have direct visibility to customers and site leadership while helping ensure programs remain aligned to cost, schedule, performance, and delivery expectations. In this role, you will guide programs through the full lifecycle, manage key milestones and program plans, and work closely with operational teams to understand and address issues affecting customer commitments. You will also contribute to value stream strategy, contract and proposal activity, financial performance, business growth efforts, and continuous improvement across the site. The breadth of the position makes it well suited for an experienced program leader who enjoys connecting customer needs, operational execution, and business performance to solve complex problems and keep programs moving forward.

This is an onsite role in Durham, NH.

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• Partner with the Site Operations Lead and serve as the designated onsite representative (DOA) during periods when the General Manager is out of the office
• Develop, maintain, and monitor program plans, schedules, milestones, and priorities to ensure organizational and customer objectives are achieved
• Partner closely with Operations and SIOP to understand customer commitments, identify delivery constraints, and communicate delivery plans, risks, and opportunities to customers
• Prepare program plans, business updates, and progress reports while driving value stream strategy, execution, and performance
• Lead strategic planning activities for assigned programs and translate business priorities into actionable execution plans
• Identify program risks, constraints, and performance challenges and drive appropriate corrective actions, including resource allocation, contractual adjustments, and responses to customer action items
• Support the development and execution of business growth strategies and new business opportunities
• Support contract negotiations and contractual changes by coordinating proposals, business plans, statements of work, operating budgets, specifications, and financial terms in partnership with appropriate functional stakeholders
• Lead assigned programs through all phases of the program lifecycle, from initiation through execution and completion
• Serve as a primary customer interface for program requirements, commitments, execution status, risks, and performance
• Manage program contract lifecycle activities, including cost, schedule, performance, and delivery commitments for assigned programs or major program workstreams
• Support P&L performance and drive execution against sales, EBIT, and recovery objectives
• Develop and implement standard work across key program areas while promoting CORE principles and a culture of continuous improvement across site teams

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Experience managing programs, projects, or product lines with responsibility for cost, schedule, performance, and customer commitments
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across functions such as Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, or Contracts
• Experience working directly with customers in a program management, operations, manufacturing, or similarly customer-facing environment

• Experience managing programs or product lines within the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other complex technical industry
• Experience supporting production, operations, or supply chain execution and resolving constraints affecting customer deliveries
• Experience managing program financial performance, including budgets, sales, margin, EBIT, or other business performance metrics
• Experience with contract management, proposal development, negotiations, or changes to customer requirements
• Experience developing and maintaining program plans, schedules, milestones, risk assessments, or executive-level program reviews
• Experience applying Lean, CORE, continuous improvement, or other operational excellence methodologies

• 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!

The salary range for this role is 132,400 USD - 251,600 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

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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At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions - whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

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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. At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form - with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.