Director Quality Engineering
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Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. Were proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And were committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of 3.35 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
The Quality Director is responsible for leading the quality strategy and execution across the site ensuring compliance with aerospace standards customer requirements and internal quality objectives. This role drives a culture of continuous improvement zero defects and operational excellence while fostering collaboration across engineering operations and supply chain teams. The Quality Director reports directly to the Site Director. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Director to join our team at GKN Aerospace a growing aerospace and defense manufacturing company in Garden Grove CA. The ideal candidate will ensure compliance with industry standards customer requirements and regulatory guidelines while driving continuous improvement across all quality processes. This exciting opportunity is directly in support of a major multi-year expansion and industrialization project providing the candidate with the unique opportunity to build implement and subsequently sustain critical quality management programs and protocols.
Job Responsibilities
- Build and lead a highly engaged quality department team; ensuring the team has what they need to be successful; and keep them safe in order to deliver the highest quality aerospace transparencies on time to our customers.
- Create and sustain a culture aligned with our Great Place to Work values by role-modeling behaviors motivating and recognizing team contributions.
- Execute Daily Management and Standardized Work through Leader Standard Work.
- Be open and honest in performance appraisals supporting and coaching individuals to close performance gaps.
- Lead the development and deployment of the site quality strategy aligned with GKN Aerospaces global quality vision.
- Ensure compliance with AS9100 ISO9001 customer-specific requirements and regulatory standards.
- Drive Zero Defect initiatives and embed a quality-first mindset across all functions.
- Oversee internal and external audit programs corrective actions and quality system improvements.
- Partner with engineering and operations to ensure robust product and process quality planning (APQP PPAP FMEA).
- Manage customer quality relationships including issue resolution performance reviews and audits.
- Monitor and report on key quality metrics (e.g. DPPM COPQ NCRs audit findings) and drive performance improvements.
- Investigate and resolve quality issues including root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Quality Mechanical Chemical and/or Systems Engineering or similar required
- 10 years of quality manufacturing experience
- 10 years of management supervisory or leadership professional experience
- Must be U.S. Person in compliance with U.S. ITAR regulations
- Excellent communications skills and ability to organize and implement multiple concurrent tasks.
- Aerospace or aircraft parts manufacturing industry experience
- Structured problem solving tools (PFMEA DOE 5-why etc.).
- Deep knowledge of aerospace quality standards (AS9100 AS9145 ISO9001) and customer/regulatory requirements.
- Strong leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with digital quality systems and data-driven decision-making.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Aerospace or aircraft parts manufacturing industry experience in the Joint Strike Fighter program OEM customers (e.g. Boeing Lockheed Martin Bombardier Airbus etc.)
- Proficient with product analysis in a model based definition (CATIA V5 UGNX etc.) environment.
- Internal audit training/experience and statistical analysis experience highly preferred.
- Advanced analytical skills with Excel Mini tab and Power BI is preferred.
- Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) deployment experience is preferred.
Well offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry who knows how far you can go
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles weve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Its a culture that won us The Best Workplace Culture Award. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
Were also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We arethe place where human dreams plus humanendeavour shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
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Director
Employment Type
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