Date Posted:2026-07-21
Country:United States of America
Location:US-NY-REMOTE
Position Role Type:Remote
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required
Security Clearance Status: Not Required
The Associate Director, Operations Boundary Systems is a senior leadership role critical to executing our enterprise strategic initiative: aligning all manufacturing locations to a single, unified Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
This role manages a dedicated team of operations experts tasked with capturing, analyzing, and prioritizing the core functional requirements across our diverse global factory footprint. Beyond initial deployment planning, this leader will own the post-go-live training, support ecosystem, and operational adoption strategies.
As a key orchestrator of our digital manufacturing threads, this position acts as the primary conduit between Factory Operations, Digital Technology (DT), and broad enterprise program teams (such as SAP S/4HANA and Digital Product Lifecyle Strategy for our PLM of the future), ensuring technical capacity matches our aggressive execution roadmap.
Must be willing and able to travel 25% of the time (domestic and international)
What You Will Do :Operational Strategy & Product Ownership
- Requirements Governance: Lead a team of operations experts to define, organize, and prioritize the standardized functionalities required by our factories, minimizing custom site-level logic in favor of enterprise scalability.
- Deployment & Roadmapping: Maintain and optimize the multi-year deployment schedule, ensuring sites are operationally ready for system implementation.
- Adoption & Support Ecosystem: Design, deploy, and manage the long-term training frameworks and post-go-live hypercare/support structures to ensure seamless operational adoption on the shop floor.
Digital Technology (DT) Partnering & Capacity Management
- Capacity Alignment: Partner closely with DT leadership to map capacity directly against operational deployment timelines and functional requirements.
- Enhancements & Infrastructure: Co-author the roadmap for systemic enhancements, technical upgrades, and factory floor infrastructure requirements necessary to support a modern enterprise MES ecosystem.
Enterprise Digital Thread Integration
- Model-Based Operations Alignment: Work in lockstep with the Model Based Operations Lead, reporting to the Director of Factory Enablement, to synthesize upstream PLM data structures and downstream ERP handoffs into the MES core layer.
- S/4HANA Dependency Management: Actively partner with the global SAP S/4HANA deployment teams to map out, mitigate, and align critical data and process dependencies moving toward enterprise deployment.
People Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence
- Team Development: Manage, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of operations engineers, specialists and business analysts.
- Influence Without Authority: Champion business process transformation by establishing deep partnerships with engineering, plant managers, and technology functions to drive acceptance of unified, standardized software capabilities.
Qualifications You Must Have :- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience within manufacturing operations, engineering, or technology sectors
- Experience delivering large-scale technology deployments, digital transformations or organizational change initiatives.
Qualifications We Prefer:- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Management, or Business Administration (Master's degree or MBA preferred).
- Experience in cross-functional collaboration
- Understanding of factory operations and shop-floor processes
- Experience with MES (Solumina, Siemens), PLM (Teamcenter/Windchill), or ERP (SAP & SAP S4Hana) ecosystems
- Experience with project management and ability to manage complex project dependencies across large enterprise timelines.
What We Offer: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Some of our competitive benefits package includes: • 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!
Learn More and Apply Now:The next chapter of our future as an aerospace company is here, and we are excited about what this means for our employees and customers! Get onboard the Collins Aerospace Operations team and play a part in managing our innovative products from inception to delivery. The Operations team continues to grow and aims to strengthen the connection of Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain and Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) across Collins Aerospace. In this dynamic environment, you will have the opportunity to network across our businesses and functions, all while improving the productivity, quality and efficiency of our operations worldwide.
Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles* will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.
*This position is remote; however, if you live within a reasonable commute of a Collins site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.The salary range for this role is 157,200 USD - 298,800 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.
