Job DescriptionBAE Systems Controls & Avionics Solutions (CAS) business area is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Manager II to support the Engine Systems and Air Transport programs. This manager will lead our Manufacturing Quality Engineers on production and sustainment programs in Fort Wayne, IN. In this role, you will work closely with leadership to provide proactive, value-added solutions and program, factory, customer, and supply chain support.
The successful candidate:
- Possess strong communication and presentation skills to facilitate effective communication at all levels of the organization and across customers and partner communities
- Is a visible, influential leader who takes a collaborative approach with others and comes across as approachable; can diffuse high-tension situations effectively
- Can form a highly capable quality assurance staff by recruiting, organizing and developing a team
- Takes responsibility for resolving technical challenges and ensuring successful tactical execution across the team
- Relates well with individuals at all levels of the organization, builds effective relationships within BAE Systems and across customer base
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide direction, supervision, and guidance to ensure alignment with quality policy, strategic objectives and organization goals that drive to Zero Defect plans and Strategy
- Develops a highly capable quality assurance staff by recruiting, organizing and developing team
- Collaborate with program leadership and operations for planning, execution, and management of critical business performance, process improvements, and other strategic initiatives
- Support integrated management teams to determine strategy and tactical deployment, improve performance, lower costs, and generate innovative solutions with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Champion innovative ideas impacting affordability and production on the factory floor
- Develop and implement program quality plans and procedures
- Ensure products conform to established company and regulatory performance and quality standards
- Review, analyze and report on quality discrepancies and data within the program
- Investigate problems and develop disposition and corrective actions for discrepancies - using proven RCCA techniques and driving sustainable preventive improvements.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Required Skills and Education- Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years of relevant experience or 14 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
- Self-starting problem solver with a demonstrated history of leadership and managing diverse teams
- Strong and Demonstrated Communication Skills (written, verbal, visual) and interpersonal skills (listening and communicating within a group/team/geographically diverse environment).
- Exhibits a high degree of technical credibility and communicates highly-technical information in a simplistic and easily understandable way
- Organizational skills - can marshal resources to get things done, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, use matrixed resources effectively and efficiently, and arrange information in a useful manner.
- Leadership and management experience in regulated industries, such as aerospace or medical.
Preferred Skills and Education- A Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Technical field
- Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt or Black Belt Certified
- Strong understanding of Quality Science tools (APQP/PPAP, 8D RCCA, Statistical Process Controls, Lean Six Sigma, Auditing) along with relevant industry standards (AS9100, AS9102 and AS9145).
