Director of Supplier Quality CEMA

Position: Director of Supplier Quality  CEMA
** Job Description*
* You don t see it, but it s there. Our employees work on the world s most advanced electronics  from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F-35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you ll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we re innovating for the future.

And you can, too. We put our customers first  exemplified by our missions:
We Protect Those Who Protect Us  and We Innovate For Those Who Move The World.  Sound like a team you want to be a part of?

Come build your career with BAE Systems.  Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Nashua New Hampshire is an hour northwest of Boston with all the cultural offerings and professional sports team of city life, and less than two hours from skiing and the New Hampshire Seacoast.

The Successful Candidate

BAE Systems is seeking a Director of Supplier Quality  CEMA, who will report to the Business Area Director of Quality for CEMA and dotted line to the Senior Director of Supplier Quality.  This role will be accountable for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the CEMA Business Supplier Quality Assurance strategy & program to reduce risk and ensure world class product and process quality and delivery from the supply base.  

You will need to build strong relationships with the business leaders, programs, supplier partnerships, and program quality functions to understand and translate requirements and risks into a robust supplier quality plan that prevents disruptions and customer defects.  In support of your Supplier Quality business strategy, you will closely partner with the core teams of the Supplier Quality function (Category and Operations leads), to ensure the supply base is assessed, qualified, and consistently delivering a quality product.  

This role will be the Command and Control of supplier quality in the business and the voice of the business within the supplier quality function.  This individual must be a self-starting leader who can effectively partner with multiple functional organizations internally (BAE Electronic Systems) and externally (Supply Base) for success.

Responsibilities:

+ Develop, communicate and drive a proactive Supplier Quality program for the Business

+ Measure, maintain, analyze and communicate all Supplier Quality metrics, risks, and planned actions, and drive continuous improvements efforts at suppliers for improvement (CAR meetings, SRB, etc.)

+ Partner with the Supplier Quality Category teams and Programs to relay requirements, assess and develop suppliers, and drive RCCA with suppliers

+ Be the Command and Control for Supplier Quality within the business

+ Investigate, evaluate, and resolve supplier quality problems by analyzing defect trends, issuing SCARs, working with partners on audits, and leading continuous improvement projects to drive a zero defects mindset  insure timely closure as well

+ Responsible for developing a collaborative environment with suppliers, design engineering, program quality engineers, supplier partnership leaders, and other key functions to foster a zero defect environment inclusive of APQP/PPAP (AS9145), Lean-6

Sigma, and Quality science tools

+ Engage/lead in all supply chain discussions to insure proper selection of sourcing (throughout entire product life cycle) to mitigate risk and reduce overall cost of ownership of the parts

+ Partner with the core Supplier Quality team to engage key supplier s management in a business review process to monitor metrics, identify trends and implement programs to assure demonstrated performance improvements

+ Manages and develops an high performing and diverse team of Supplier Quality Engineers (potentially in geographically dispersed locations) who can build relationships and interpret contractual and product requirements and flow down to action at a supplier

+ Own and manage the Supplier Quality budget for your business

+ Enhance supplier and organization quality culture through coaching and technical engagement.

** Required Education, Experience, & Skills*
* + Bachelor s Degree and 12 years of experience or 16  years of experience in lieu of degree

+ Direct, or related, experience in Supplier Quality

+ Experience managing teams

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Experience with ISO 9000:2000, Quality Systems

+ Core competencies include strong leadership, communication, influence, and relationship building

+ Good experience with, and an understanding of, sourcing and execution in regulated, demanding industries such as Aerospace/Defense, Medical Device, Automotive, or other challenging markets

+ Comfortable experience working in a matrix organization

+ Self-starter; identifies challenges/problems and takes the initiative to identify solutions

+ Motivates team members, fosters and nurtures teamwork

+ Can diffuse high-tension situations calmly and effectively

+ Travel required

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