Quality Assurance Manager

Job Details

As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and you model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. You develop trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that people throughout the organization feel engaged and connected to their work. You deliver excellence, strive for continuous improvement, and respond vigorously to change.

Responsibilities include

• Planning, coordinating, assigning, and ensuring thorough and timely Quality Assurance support of all site manufacturing, assembly, and test operations.
• Providing program-specific data visibility and analysis indicating quality performance, high-drivers for defects and rework, first-pass yield, and other quality-related metrics.
• Driving process improvements yielding efficient first-time quality with applicable product-owning teams.
• Standardizing Quality Assurance methods across cost centers and shifts.
• Project performance planning, risk management, technical quality, cost, schedule and factory accountability oversight for Program Production-related Mission Assurance statements of work.
• Developing, modifying, applying, and maintaining quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished material products.
• Collaborating with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devising and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designing and analyzing inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conducting quality assurance tests; and performing statistical analysis to assess the cost of, and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Auditing quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensuring that corrective actions are effective in reducing defects and noncompliances.
• Acting with agility to business needs and interacting in a collaborative way to empower diverse, cross-functional teams, including both internal and external members, to achieve positive business results, including operating decisions, scheduling requirements, and contractual clarification.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 9 years of experience in the Aircraft, Aerospace or Manufacturing Industries in a Quality Environment or 7 years of experience in the Aircraft, Aerospace or Manufacturing Industries in a Quality Environment and a Masters degree.
• 5 or more years of Leadership/ Supervisory or Lead experience.
• Must have ability to work flexible schedule 1st or 2nd shift to include weekend shifts.
• Ability to obtain/maintain DoD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Strong orientation to change in a dynamic environment.
• Sophisticated level of understanding of complex quality policies, procedures, governmental regulations and workflow.
• Ability to analyze alternative courses of action where decisions have risk/reward implications for program or area of influence