Senior Manager, I4.0 Technical Excellence Lead - RTX

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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. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The I4.0 Technical Excellence Lead will drive consistency, innovation, and maturity across RTX ’s technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives. This role partners closely with internal Centers of Excellence, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, RTX Ventures, and the Digital Technology organization to advance automation, digital thread enablement, and connected factory capabilities. The Technical Excellence Lead will serve as an integrator across multiple enterprise councils, enabling harmonized processes and driving measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and manufacturability.

What You Will Do:

Serve as an RTX Ventures technical partner, providing insight into emerging technologies, producibility, and factory-centric application opportunities.

Support trade studies by analyzing technical options, assessing risks, and presenting recommendations to stakeholders.

Lead development, tracking, and reporting of Connected Factory metrics, including automation KPIs, Control Tower insights, and digital performance dashboards.

Support factory automation initiatives, including evaluation of automation opportunities, technology readiness, and deployment coordination with site teams.

Lead the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) Council and support the Quality Management System (QMS) Council, focusing on cross-BU QMS harmonization and integration into standard operating processes.

Act as a strategic partner for Producibility initiatives, ensuring manufacturability considerations are integrated into design, development, and scaling processes.

Provide MBDMI (Model-Based Definition / Model-Based Inspection) support to mature digital product lifecycle capabilities.

Collaborate across functional and site teams to drive best practice sharing, digital maturity acceleration, and continuous improvement in technical excellence.

Ensure alignment between enterprise initiatives, business unit strategies, and site-level deployment activities.

This position will require travel to various manufacturing sites.

Qualifications You Must Have:

Typically requires a University Degree in En