Quality Director

Location: Sylmar

Quality Director Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason offers world-class control devices and subsystems - such as control grips, throttles, and communications interfaces - for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications.

Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components.
Title: Director, Quality Job Family: Quality Reports to: President FLSA Status Exempt EEOC Class: Middle Manager Summary The Director of Quality provides leadership, direction, and oversight to for the Mason Quality Management System. The Director of Quality must have a strategic mindset, strong business acumen and a focus on continuous process improvement. The Director of Quality is the primary point of contact for DCMA and for all Government shipments;

administers the Government Property Control system; is the AS9100 Management Representative; and handles FAA Programs and requirements.
Position Duties Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure a Quality management system is established and maintained to provide world class quality levels at the product design stage and is focused on process control in conjunction with lean manufacturing systems.
• Manages Quality Control, Quality Compliance, Inspection, Repair Station and Customer Quality Management departments
• Utilize Lean and Six Sigma tools throughout Quality Management System and work with operations leadership to ensure processes which enable Quality to be cost effectively built into the product
• Provide customer quality assurance for the products and services of the company and assist in assuring the achievement of the optimum quality costs for the company.
• Formulate and document basic company quality policy and quality organization.
• Establish quality goals and supporting tactics in company business plans.
• Oversee all major quality-related decisions in all phases of business activity.
• Focus on such areas as potential liability of the company's products, the reliability and safety of all products, and the minimization of such hazards in achieving full customer quality satisfaction
• Assure and contribute to the regular collection and analysis of quality metrics to measure the business effectiveness of the quality program for achieving optimum balance among prevention, appraisal, and failure costs.
• Provide for suitable company and plant operation and application of the engineering and statistical technologies of quality control. This will be exercised through the four sub functional areas of quality engineering, process-control engineering, quality information and test equipment engineering.
• Maintenance of suitable activities to audit quality effectiveness, especially planning programs of audits; procedure audits, quality-systems audits, and product audits.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above
• Understand and live by Mason's ethics and business conduct policies
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree required preferable in an Engineering discipline with 10 years relevant work experience
• 5+ years experience managing an Aerospace and Defense Quality Department in a manufacturing environment.
• AS9100 Quality System implementation experience.
• Training in and practical experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma Manufacturing.
• Six Sigma black belt a plus
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Demonstrated strategic orientation with strong business acumen.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and customer interface skills.
• Strong focus on teambuilding and employee development.
• Act as change agent to drive change in support of Transformational change
• Highly accomplished leader with ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex situations.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, act tactically with the strength of character to motivate others to buy into ideas, concepts and values.
• Flexible…