Program Quality Manager

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

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Leidos’ Defense Mission Assurance is seeking a Program Quality Manager to join our team and serve as the accountable leader for program-level Mission Assurance integration. The Program Quality Manager establishes the program assurance strategy, ensures Product Assurance and Execution Assurance are planned and resourced, and verifies that Program Quality Engineers execute or confirm qualified execution of assurance activities before products are baselined, released, or delivered.

The position leads the program quality team, owns the Program Quality Plan and assurance sampling strategy, establishes and analyzes program quality metrics and Confidence Pulse inputs, and drives corrective and preventive action to verified closure. The Program Quality Manager interfaces directly with the customer and program management, remains accountable for assurance effectiveness rather than serving as the routine executor of assurance activities, and ensures compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, and contractual quality requirements.

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Leidos Defense Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

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Primary Responsibilities.

Product Assurance
· Ensure Product Assurance is performed on decision-based products, including plans, requirements, designs, test artifacts, verification evidence, acceptance data, supplier deliverables, and other products that drive downstream execution.
· Ensure Product Assurance is planned, risk-based, performed or confirmed by a qualified role, recorded, and closed before the product is used as a downstream baseline or delivered to the customer.
· Develop and maintain the Program Assurance Sampling Plan as part of the Program Quality Plan and adjust sampling movement based on assurance evidence and results.
· Ensure quality clauses and standards identified through Assurance Readiness are flowed into Program Quality Plans, acceptance criteria, supplier controls, inspection strategies, and assurance activities, and coordinate unclear or changing requirements with Contracts and Quality Strategic Planning.
· Ensure program inspection and Product Assurance sampling strategies, including statistically valid sampling where appropriate, are aligned to customer, regulatory, corporate, product-risk, and configuration requirements.

Execution Assurance
· Ensure Execution Assurance is performed against Product-Assured, approved, and baselined plans, including the PMP, SEMP, CMP, IMS, test plans, supplier plans, and program-specific quality commitments.
· Ensure lifecycle reviews, peer reviews, testing, configuration changes, supplier execution, manufacturing or production-readiness activities, and acceptance events occur when planned, meet applicable entry…