Leadership Development Program - Engineering, Materials & Chemistry Discipline
Listed on 2026-07-02
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Engineering
Materials Engineering, Process Engineer, Quality Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) – Materials & Chemistry Discipline
Discover an extraordinary opportunity to accelerate your engineering career and develop into a future technical leader two-year rotational Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) – Materials & Chemistry Discipline provides challenging, high-visibility assignments across the enterprise, allowing you to build a powerful global network. You will receive high-caliber training, professional mentoring, and frontline, hands-on experience directly within our cutting-edge laboratories, research and development centers, and manufacturing facilities.
This fast-paced path expands your business acumen, sharpens your functional expertise, and prepares you to make a lasting impact on our global technology organization. Actively recruiting for the next cohort and program that begins June 2027.
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete three 8-month rotational assignments across various U.S. locations, adapting quickly to new technology centers, business units, and engineering teams.
- Execute core engineering milestones within one or more specialized program tracks, including materials research and development, destructive and non-destructive testing, chemical analysis, material specification definition, processing, and quality control.
- Stretch your professional and technical capabilities by taking ownership of frontline, hands-on chemical and materials engineering deliverables and comprehensive technical documentation.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, mechanical, systems, and quality engineering teams to evaluate material performance and optimize component processing.
- Present technical data, failure analysis findings, and strategic material review updates clearly and effectively to varied stakeholders and leadership teams.
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major. Degree must be obtained by start date.
- Willing and able to operationally relocate to various RTX geographic locations across the United States for three distinct 8-month program assignments.
- Experience or academic coursework in destructive or non-destructive material evaluation techniques, such as metallography, microscopy (SEM/optical), mechanical testing (tensile, hardness), or spectroscopy (FTIR, EDS).
- Experience or academic coursework across one or more fundamental chemical and materials domains, including chemical synthesis, laboratory characterization, materials thermodynamics, physical metallurgy, polymer chemistry, or corrosion engineering.
- Experience or coursework utilizing statistical analysis and data evaluation tools, such as Minitab, MATLAB, Python, or JMP.
What We Offer:
- Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
- RTX leadership, functional and business acumen training
- Upon program completion, LDP graduates possess a solid platform of skills & experiences to launch a successful RTX career & receive continued mentorship
The salary range for this role is 59,000 USD - 139,000 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.
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