Quality Engineering Manager

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Quality Engineering Manager

Job Code: 39757

Job Location: San Diego, CA

Job Schedule: 9/80 (off every other Friday)

Promotes a customer-support mindset and positions Quality Engineering as a trusted resource that partners with all areas of the business to improve overall organizational quality.

Responsible for the leadership, development, implementation, and measurement of all Quality Engineering activities across the organization. Leads quality-related projects and provides training, logistical support, and infrastructure to advance quality initiatives and improve overall business performance.

Ensures internal, customer, regulatory, and third-party quality requirements are clearly defined, effectively deployed, measured, and continuously improved. Leads root cause analysis and corrective action efforts to address product and process nonconformances and prevent recurrence.

Drives early cross-functional engagement to ensure quality is designed into products and embedded within processes from initial ideation through production. Leads team to function as an effective resource to improve overall quality and drive improvement initiatives.

Develops and manages budgets, monitors expenditures, and leads an engineering organization that includes Supplier Quality Engineering and Quality Engineering.

Oversee program and project quality execution through proposal reviews, risk assessments, and participation in gate reviews to ensure quality requirements are integrated throughout the product lifecycle.

• Lead, direct and review the work of professionals in Quality Engineering and Supplier Quality Engineering
• Ensure that manufacturing engineering, operations and design engineering interact sufficiently throughout the product planning and design phases to ensure aseamless hand-off during product transition to production.
• Develop and implement quality plans and programs promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures, government standards and directives, and commercially proven methodology, ensuring that the department conforms to these principles.
• Reviewand verify compliance of all contractual flow-downs issued for quality tasks for proposals and ongoing contracts/projects.
• Perform design gate reviews and facilitate design and concurrent Quality Engineering.
• Manage supplier performance for general materials and subcontracts including flow-down of quality requirements and verification of supplier compliance and performance.
• Verify subcontractor inspection or technical document preparation procedures toverify compliance with contract requirements.

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience; or a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• 3+ years Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations or Quality leadership experience.

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 9 years of sector experience; or a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of…