Senior Principal Engineer, Engineering Excellence (Onsite)

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

This Engineer plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Wheel & Brake business. Through strategic leadership in variation analysis and advanced inspection innovation, this role directly strengthens the reliability, manufacturability, and long-term competitiveness of carbon–carbon products. With high visibility across leadership and key functional groups, the Engineer influences critical decisions, drives transformational improvements, and helps define the next generation of materials and inspection technologies. In this position, you will not only solve today’s most pressing challenges, but you will also build lasting capabilities that set the foundation for tomorrow.

The Engineer is responsible for driving strategic variation reduction initiatives and advancing inspection capabilities across multiple carbon–carbon brake manufacturing production areas. This role provides hands-on technical leadership in Variation Modes & Effects Analysis (VMEA) to ensure manufacturing consistency, improved product performance, and proactive risk identification across textiles, furnace deck, machine shop, coating, and riveting operations.

As a technical lead, the Engineer works closely with senior leadership, Operations, Quality, Engineering, R&D, and external partners to influence major strategic decisions. This position offers significant opportunity to make a lasting impact by addressing critical current needs and shaping the future of carbon–carbon manufacturing and inspection technologies across global sites.

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Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions. These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service. Our global team is committed to continuous improvement – we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable and more sustainable in the years to come. We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us!   

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 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.