Lifecycle Maintenance Cost Engineer

What You Will Do *

As a member of the Lifecycle Maintenance Cost Engineering team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining Direct Maintenance Cost models covering all P&WC engine families. These serve as the foundation for new engine program business cases, commercial offerings to customers, parts planning and product improvements.

By applying your product knowledge, you will evaluate part durability for new and active engine programs to maintain associated cost models. This is accomplished by studying large datasets and linking the results to engine operations and physical hardware findings. You will investigate the reasons for parts replacement and collaborate across the organization to optimize recommendations. Your findings and recommendations are thorough, well explained, support key strategic business decisions, and you will present them to key stakeholders.

What your day to day will look like?

• Analyze in-service data using internal databases to forecast parts replacements and their costs throughout the product life cycle.
• Review technical and commercial documents to gather relevant information on engine maintenance requirements.
• Monitor the durability, reparability and price of components and inform key program stakeholders to ensure that engine programs meet maintenance cost targets at entry into service and throughout the engine life cycle.
• Collaborate with engineering, customer program, product cost, finance, marketing, business development teams and other key stakeholders to analyze relevant data and assumptions, while ensuring alignment of the technical and commercial strategy.
• Contribute actively to the development of customer maintenance plans and commercial offers.
• Prepare and submit the required documentation for aftermarket reviews of engine business case analyses,
  
  
  
  marketing proposals, PPH proposals, Estimates at Completion (EAC) and financial assessments.
• Identify and investigate cost reduction and gross margin improvement opportunities to maximize contract profitability, in partnership with the cost governance teams.
• Ensure the proper functioning of the department’s processes, tools, training, data, etc., and maintain consistency across programs through CORE methods.

Qualifications You Must Have *

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience OR
• Masters degree with minimum 7 years of prior relevant experience
• Aeronautical or mechanical, or equivalent degree is preferred
• Strong Engine and MRO knowledge
• Engine maintenance and field experience

Key Competencies:

• Highly organized and structured work methods
• Comfortable analyzing large datasets
• Basic understanding of computer programming
• Interest and grasp of financial concepts
• People and communication skills
• Attention to detail, highly curious
• Project management skills
• Bilingual French/English is an asset

Please ensure that the type of position defined below matches your needs before applying. The nature of this position is:

On-site: Employees who hold on-site positions will work primarily at the plant. This includes all production and maintenance employees,



as these employees are essential to the development of our products.

Hybrid: Employees in hybrid roles will work regularly in office and off-site. The ratio of on-site working time will be determined in partnership with your future manager.

Remote: Employees who work remotely will primarily work from home. If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss the on-site presence associated with this position.

Applicants will learn more about the type of position throughout the recruitment process. For on-site and hybrid positions, commuting to work is an employee responsibility.

Requires extensive management and leadership knowledge to lead project teams.

Generally requires: A university degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience OR a graduate degree in a related field and a minimum of 7 years of experience.

Engineering/Other Technical Positions: Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, unless prohibited by local laws and regulations.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services to commercial, military, and governmental customers worldwide. It includes three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the forefront of known science by imagining and delivering solutions that push the boundaries of quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics, and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 from the merger of Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporations aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.