Date Posted:2026-10-30
Country:United States of America
Location:US-CA-EL SEGUNDO-E01 ~ 2000 E El Segundo Blvd ~ BLDG E01
Position Role Type:Onsite
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret
Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1
Join our team as a GPS Sustainment Program Manager, where you will lead and transform sustainment operations supporting the F-35 program. In this role, you will drive performance improvements, expand repair and depot capabilities, and align operations with customer needs to deliver exceptional results. You will work within a matrixed organization to manage a portfolio of sustainment activities, including depot-level repair, maintenance, logistics support, material readiness, sustaining engineering, and lifecycle management.
This position is onsite at our El Segundo facility.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead and manage cost, schedule, technical performance, and contractual deliverables for sustainment programs.
- Oversee depot repair, maintenance, and logistics support activities to ensure operational excellence.
- Analyze customer demand, operational capacity, and resource constraints to develop and execute improvement strategies.
- Develop and implement strategies to expand repair and sustainment capacity, improve operational efficiency, and enhance financial performance.
- Identify program risks, develop mitigation strategies, and drive measurable performance improvements.
- Manage program budgets, forecasts, financial performance, and business cases to achieve profitability and customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to activate new repair lines, develop depot repair capabilities, and optimize repair pipelines.
- Support sustainment proposals, contract modifications, follow-on awards, and business development initiatives.
Qualifications You Must Have- Typically requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, operations management, logistics, or a related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience, or an advanced degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in aerospace and defense or a comparable complex technical environment involving sustainment, depot repair, manufacturing, maintenance, logistics, or product support.
- Experience managing program budgets, forecasts, financial performance, or business cases.
- Experience managing cost, schedule, technical performance, and contractual deliverables.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Qualifications We Prefer- Master's degree in engineering, operations management, logistics, or a related discipline.
- 10 or more years of experience in sustainment program management, particularly in military electronics, avionics, or line replaceable units.
- Experience developing new depot repair capabilities, activating repair lines, or expanding sustainment capacity.
- Experience conducting demand and capacity analysis, repair optimization, and repair pipeline forecasting.
- Experience with performance-based logistics (PBL), integrated logistics support (ILS), or military depot operations.
- Experience with defense sustainment contracts, including firm-fixed-price (FFP), time-and-materials (T&M), or cost-reimbursable contracts.
- Experience supporting sustainment proposals, follow-on awards, contract modifications, and business development initiatives.
What We Offer :Some of our competitive benefits package includes:
- 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 118,300 USD - 224,900 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.
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. 
