Sr. Director of Quality

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting‑edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search‑and‑rescue teams do their jobs better.

The Senior Director of Quality will be directly responsible monitoring and improving the quality and reliability of all products in a $500M business unit designing, producing and servicing across the world. This leader will be responsible for leadership of a team of more than 30 people as well as influencing the priorities and work of hundreds of people. They will serve as the primary contact regarding quality and regulatory issues with senior government and customer leaders and lead efforts to resolve any concerns.

This person will determine and implement actions to ensure compliance with additional standards such as airworthiness and EHS. They will coordinate extensively with Engineering, Product Management, Finance, Sales, Operations, Procurement, Programs, and other groups to drive organizational improvements.

• Ensuring a safe workplace, including improving safety procedures and culture
• Ensuring successful certification audits to ISO
  9001 and AS9100 standards worldwide
• Understanding and implementing actions to meet ever‑changing market certification requirements including airworthiness, REACH/RoHS and environmental sustainability.
• Management of a 30 person staff consisting of:
  • 3 large site Quality managers
  • Matrix management of 4 additional smaller site Quality leaders
  • Functions including data analytics, incoming and outgoing inspection, environmental qualifications and product dedicated quality engineers
• The improvement and coordination of QMS systems across the division
• Driving continuous improvement efforts using Lean principles and root cause analysis.
• The improvement of the New Product Introduction Process (NPI), particularly design and testing for reliability and environmental qualifications
• Tracking, analysis, response and reporting critical information throughout the organization including reliability, failure modes, customer satisfaction and detailed financial metrics.
• RFP/RFQ proposal evaluation, development, and response including Quality and Reliability Plans.
• Approximately 4‑6 trips worldwide per year to visit locations, major customers and trade shows.

• Technical background highly desirable including management of technical and multi‑site teams
• Experience with successfully obtaining or maintaining ISO
  9001 or equivalent site certifications
• Experience with measurement/repairing of EO/IR systems or IDCA manufacturing is preferred.
• Experience working with government and defense agencies including proposals and issue resolution.
• Data analysis including SAP, MS Excel and PowerBI tools is desirable.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Management of multi‑site teams and mentorship of first level managers
• Ability to represent the organization in difficult situations to senior customer and government leaders
• Knowledge of MIL‑STD‑810 and ISO 9001 standards and their application
• Understanding of product reliability and sparing calculations as well as Statistical Process Control or 6 Sigma principles
• Familiarity with GTC and ITAR requirements

• College Diploma in technical or business discipline
• Experience managing multi‑site Quality and/or Service organizations
• 10 years of experience in the Defense sector

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

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Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non‑merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.