Quality Department Leader 23295

Job Title: Quality Department Leader

Job Code: 23295

Job Location: Clifton NJ

Job Description:

The Sr. Manager of Quality will be responsible for leading all aspects of Quality Assurance throughout the product development lifecycle for L3Harris Electronic Warfare Division of Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) segment. This division is comprised of 2 major manufacturing locations and this position will have responsibility for direct supervision and leadership of 37 quality personnel with 13 direct reports. The Sr. Manager will be responsible for driving continual process and product improvement ensuring product and process integrity leading to customer satisfaction and overall mission success while supporting division quality delivery and cost targets. This position will lead quality personnel located in the Clifton NJ and Van Nuys CA and collaborate frequently with Program leadership Engineering Manufacturing and Supply Chain personnel. This is a handson highly involved leadership position.

Essential Functions:

• Responsiblefor the Quality Engineering and Inspection functions supporting all business practices includingquality planning compliance monitoring and validation for programs hardware software and inspection.
• Responsibility for resolving technical challenges ensuring successful tactical as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision for the Quality department.
• Developand implement strategic Quality initiatives and programs in support of the Electronic Warfare Division promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures government standards anddirectives and commercially proven methodology and ensure that the department conforms to these principles.
• Promote a strong culture of quality focused on every employee engaged and enhancing the customer experience through rigorous attention to detail and prevention of defects.
• Work closely with the program teams and the functional organizations to ensure that all phases of the product life cycle from early customerinvolvement through postdelivery support meet the requirements for mission success.
• Ensurethat manufacturing engineering operations and design engineering interactsufficiently throughout the product planning and design phases to ensure aseamless handoff during product transition to production including design reviews and facilitating quality concurrent Engineering.
• Responsiblefor the maintenance of quality records that document the quality status ofmaterial/products and provide necessary information and cumulative data for internal and external Customer responses.
• Develop reviewand verify compliance of all Work Package Descriptions issued for Quality tasks for proposals and ongoing contracts/projects.
• Improvethe efficiency of the Quality organization through effective leadershipindividual and group training and process improvement.
• Collect and analyzekey quality measures such as Cost of Poor Quality to develop zero defect plans improve yields and reduce rework duringengineering and manufacturing efforts. Report to senior leadership on business performance including action plans to improve business and status of strategic initiatives.
• Maintaincertification and compliance efforts for AS9100 CMMI and other required certifications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Mechanical/Software Engineering or technical equivalent with a mimimum of 12 years of prior related experience or Graduate degree with a mininum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• 5 years Quality management or operations leadership experience.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills including communications facilitation consulting coaching and influencing
• Selfmotivated and possess demonstrated ability to motivate others to achieve timely results.
• Highly collaborative style capable of working acrossmultiple functional areas to drive results.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• In depth knowledge of quality and reliability methods and procedures for hardware and software systems as they apply to the aerospace or electronic industry.
• Greenbelt or Blackbelt certification and/or proven education or work history in leading and implementing projects.
• Experience with Configuration Control management practices.
• Experience with Agile Oracle Windchill Cincom and/or Doors software suites
• Experience with JSTD and IPC standard implementation.
• ASQ certification preferred; Experience managing AS9100 certified business.
• Willingness to travel up to 20 percent
• Active TS security clearance

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