Cell Leader - Landing Gear

Role Overview

Cell Leader - Landing Gear at RTX, located in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is an onsite position.

Company Overview

RTX is the world's largest aerospace and defense company, with 185,000 employees united by purpose to solve complex global problems. Collins Aerospace, one of RTX's three market-leading businesses, is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions for the aerospace and defense industry.

Role Purpose

The Cell Leader provides day-to-day oversight and direction of shop-floor operations for the Landing Gear cell, ensuring safety, quality, compliance, and on-time delivery while driving continuous improvement and developing technician capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Promote a strong safety culture through Tier meetings, toolbox talks, Gemba walks, and effective communication.
• Ensure technicians maintain a safety-first mindset, practice Safe Start, and comply with JHAs, PPE requirements, and approved work practices.
• Ensure work is performed in accordance with CMMs, Planning Documents, Technical data, and Quality procedures.
• Escalate safety, quality, tooling, equipment, or compliance concerns promptly.
• Support investigations, corrective actions, audits, inspections, and other EHS and Quality initiatives.
• Reinforce good housekeeping, FOD prevention, and TPM.

Productivity & Continuous Improvement

• Drive efficient use of available labor hours and resources.
• Identify opportunities to reduce process time, rework, COPQ, and other operational waste.
• Support and drive continuous improvement activities such as Standard Work, 5S, Visual Management, KANBAN, and QCPC.
• Encourage technicians to identify and implement practical improvements to safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
• Lead or co-lead continuous improvement events and encourage team participation.
• Monitor cell performance and support recovery plans where performance is below target.
• Demonstrate fluency with key site and cell level operational metrics and participate in progress reviews.

Operations & Delivery

• Provide oversight to Senior Technicians in daily shop-floor execution, including setting priorities and allocating technicians.
• Monitor work progress against the production plan and escalate risks to schedule, TAT, DIH, and customer delivery.
• Coordinate movement of components between GATE processes to maintain workflow.
• Oversee the resolution or timely escalation of constraints involving parts, tooling, technical data, equipment, engineering support, logistics support, and other resources impacting operations.
• Participate in daily Tier meetings and provide accurate updates on progress, constraints, recovery actions, or escalations.
• Support overtime and manpower planning based on operational requirements.
• Support effective communication between shifts and ensure clear handovers of outstanding work and priorities.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with Program management, Engineering, Quality, Materials Planning, Logistics, Stores, Customer Service, and other support functions to drive results or resolve production constraints.
• Ensure issues requiring additional support are escalated early with clear ownership and required completion dates.
• Support customer and regulatory requirements when required.

People Leadership

• Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and technical support to technicians.
• Set clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, attendance, and workplace behavior.
• Promote accountability and ownership while maintaining a respectful and collaborative working environment.
• Support technician development through OJT, training, and skills development.
• Provide performance feedback to your team.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors.

Qualifications & Experience

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in MRO of components, engines, aircraft, or operations, engineering, and manufacturing.
• Proven ability to manage and motivate teams to achieve business goals.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills.
• Safety awareness and a commitment to quality.
• Understands basic management approaches such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching, and process execution.

Skills & Competencies

• Experience in using continuous improvement tools.
• Exposure to ERP systems, SAP preferred.
• Proven success developing and leading a team.

Additional Information

• Position Type: Onsite. Employees work primarily onsite, as this includes production and maintenance roles essential to product development.
• Commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee's personal responsibility.
• RTX adheres to principles of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.