Senior Manager Quality Management

Overview

L3

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Job Title:
Senior Manager, Quality - Mason Site Lead
Job Number: 33749
Job Location:
Mason, OH
Job Schedule: 9/80
Clearance:
Must Have the Ability to Obtain and Maintain a Department of War Security Clearance

Job Description:

L3

Harris Technologies' Aerojet Rocketdyne segment is a world-recognized leader in propulsion systems for space, missile defense, strategic missiles, and tactical systems. We are seeking an experienced Quality Manager to lead Quality at our Mason, OH facility. This role is critical to ensuring the highest standards of quality, reliability, and mission success in our aerospace and defense programs.

The Senior Manager of Quality will be responsible for leading all aspects of Quality Assurance throughout the product development lifecycle for L3

Harris’ Mason Sensors Division. This position will have responsibility for direct supervision and leadership of 40 quality personnel. The Senior Manager will be responsible for driving continual process and product improvement ensuring product and process integrity, leading to customer satisfaction and overall mission success while supporting division quality, delivery and cost targets. This position will collaborate frequently with Program leadership, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain personnel.

This is a hands-on, highly involved leadership position.

This position offers the chance to define and execute quality strategy for a rapidly growing, high-priority site within L3 Harris’ newly formed Advanced Effects sector.

• Responsible for the Quality Engineering and Inspection functions, supporting all business practices, including quality planning, compliance monitoring and validation for programs, hardware, and inspection.
• Responsibility for resolving technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution, as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision for the Quality department.
• Develop and implement strategic Quality initiatives and programs in support of the Advanced Effects sector promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures, government standards and directives, and commercially proven methodology and ensure that the department conforms to these principles.
• Promote a strong culture of quality focused on every employee engaged and enhancing the customer experience through rigorous attention to detail and prevention of defects.
• Work closely with the program teams and the functional organizations to ensure that all phases of the product life cycle, from early customer involvement through post-delivery support, meet the requirements for mission success.
• Ensure that manufacturing engineering, operations and design engineering interact sufficiently throughout the product planning and design phases to ensure a seamless hand-off during product transition to production including design reviews and facilitating quality concurrent Engineering.
• Responsible for the maintenance of quality records that document the quality status of material/products and provide necessary information and cumulative data for internal and external Customer responses.
• Develop, review and verify compliance of all Work Package Descriptions issued for Quality tasks for proposals and ongoing contracts/projects.
• Improve the efficiency of the Quality organization through effective leadership, individual and group training, and process improvement.
• Collect and analyze key quality measures…