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Date Posted:

2025-06-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE

, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Top Secret

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

We are seeking a bold, operationally minded leader to serve as Director of Mission Engineering & Operational Analysis. Are you an individual ready to shape the future of defense by solving the toughest warfighter challenges?

In this role, you will lead a complex multi-disciplinary team at the intersection of technical innovation, threat analysis, and operational problem decomposition. Your work involves deeply understanding operational gaps, assessing evolving threat environments, and translating complex mission needs into actionable technical insights that influence supported portfolio capability and product development strategies. The analysis generated by this team drives early influence with senior stakeholders, shapes requirements and architectures and directly impacts operational effectiveness across domains.

This is a role for leaders who perform well under pressure and navigate complexity with clarity and who enjoy building new organizations. You will lead team integrating real-world threat data, theater-level scenarios, and physics based modeling into analysis that informs critical investment, design and customer decisions. This role requires a deep understanding of military operations, a passion for enabling mission outcomes, and the technical acumen to align capabilities with operational realities. If you are driven to deliver strategic impact, lead with purpose, and engineer decisive advantage for the warfighter—this is your mission!

The role will be onsite at one of these locations:

+ Cedar Rapids, IA

+ McKinney, TX

+ Sterling, VA

What You Will Do

+ The VSL will lead our Mission Engineering team as it plans and executes strategic Mission Engineering studies, and utilize data that is collected during large scale customer events (e.g Northern Edge).

+ Stand up and institutionalize Mission Engineering as a service across Mission Systems

+ Establish and oversee a plan within budget to ensure the appropriate level of classified facilities and resources are available for the execution of required studies

Qualifications You Must Have

+ Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience

+ Active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain TS/SCI **after start.**

+ Prior leadership experience managing teams required

+ Experience formulating and developing qualitative and quantitative value propositions; strong strategic, creative, and critical thinking skills

Qualifications We Prefer

+ Knowledge of Collins Mission Systems technical capabilities is desired but not required

+ Prior experience with Mission Engineering or Operational Assessment is strongly desired

+ Active DoD TS/SCI Clearance preferred

**What We Offer** ​

+ 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!

+ Relocation Eligibility​

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**Learn More & Apply Now!** ​

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today. ​

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. ​

**Onsite:** Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. ​

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again. ​

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Employee Referral Eligible

The salary range for this role is 176,000 USD - 352,000 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.

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