Sr. Manager, Quality & Mission Assurance
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Job Title: Sr. Manager Quality & Mission Assurance
Job Code: 28499
Job Location: Huntsville AL
Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
The Aerojet Rocketdyne Segment of L3Harris Technologies is seeking aSenior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance to serve as the quality leader for the Aerojet Rocketdyne Segments Missile Solution Sector Advanced Manufacturing Facilities in Huntsville AL. This is a critical role for the Missile Solutions Sector of Aerojet Rocketdyne and requires a dynamic technical leader with a proven track record of leading change inspiring others and driving continual process and product improvement. This position will be responsible for leading all aspects of Quality throughout the product lifecycle. This includes driving continual process and product improvement ensuring product and process integrity customer satisfaction and overall mission success while supporting quality delivery and cost targets.
Essential Functions:
Provide leadership direction and support to the various Quality Assurance teams (Quality Engineering Receiving Inspection In-process and Final Inspection Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Metrology and Quality Management Systems) to ensure deliverables are produced to meet quality standards set by government regulatory customer and L3Harris corporate requirements.
- Responsible for the Quality Engineering Quality Inspection and Quality Systems supporting all business practices.
- Responsibility for resolving technical challenges ensuring successful tactical execution as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision for the Quality team.
Champion lead and support the execution of key strategic corporate and/or customer driven initiatives including:
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
Zero Defect Planning (ZDP)
Operational Excellence
Continuous Improvement
Develop and support site and functional strategic alignment.
Collect and analyze key quality measures such as cost of poor quality to develop zero defect plans improve yields and reduce rework during engineering and manufacturing efforts.
- Reports on business performance including action plans to improve business execution and status of strategic initiatives to senior leadership.
- Ensures product quality technology is an integral part of engineering design and manufacturing processes. Drive advanced product quality planning throughout the product maturity cycle.
- Promotes a strong culture of quality focused on every employee engaged and enhancing the customer experience through rigorous attention to detail and prevention of defects.
- Works closely with the program teams and the functional organizations to ensure that all phases of the customer life cycle from early customer involvement through post-delivery support meet the requirements for mission success.
- Ensures the maintenance of quality records that document the quality status of material/products and provide necessary information for internal and external reviews.
- Maintains certification and compliance efforts for AS9100 and other required certifications.
- Leads robust root cause analysis application of lean/six sigma methods and implementation of corrective and preventative actions
- Measures monitor and take action to ensure quality-focused key performance indicator targets are achieved or exceeded
- Applies L3Harris policies procedures and standards that are relevant to the respective program and functional organizations
Requires up to 10% business travel to Missile Solutions Headquarters in Huntsville AL.
- Ability to commute between Huntsville sites.
Ability to obtain a US SecretSecurity Clearance.
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree and minimum 12 years of prior Quality experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related quality lieu of a degree minimum of 16 years of prior related quality experience.
5 or more years of experience directly managing a Quality Engineering or Quality Organization.
5 or more years managing site certification with AS9100 ISO 9001.
Preferred Additional Skills:
BS in an Engineering or Management related discipline. Masters in engineering or Business.
Quality experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry.
Knowledge of engineering and production processes used to design develop and produce solid rocket propellant systems and sub-systems.
Experience with drawing interpretation and GD&T.
Experience with hands-on mechanical and electronic inspection techniques.
ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.
Experience working with DCMA and government contracts.
Experience identifying nonconformance and applying prevention utilizing formal tools such DMAIC FMEA 8D 5Y etc. and applying Lean techniques such as Standard Work and Value Stream Mapping.
Knowledge of Six Sigma and LEAN manufacturing principles.
Proficient in MS Word Excel PowerPoint and Minitab.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
