Senior Manager, Quality Management

Job Title: Senior Manager, Quality & Mission Assurance

Job Code: 42140

Job Location: Stennis Space Center, MS

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days; four day work week with Friday’s off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA) to serve as the quality functional leader for the Missile Solution Segment’s facility located at NASA Glen Stennis Space Center, MS. The site is a center of excellence for large liquid rocket engine assembly and hot fire test.  This position is responsible for leading a team of approximately 25 direct reports. The Q&MA team ensures delivered products conform to contractual and L3Harris requirements for product quality throughout the engine assembly, test, and post-delivery support. They ensure adherence to and compliance with established quality policies, practices, and government regulations.  This includes implementation and leadership of strategies that will directly impact the successful zero-defect, on-time delivery of products. 

Essential Functions:

• Provide leadership, direction and support across multiple Quality Assurance teams (Quality Engineering, Product Acceptance / Inspection, Product Configuration Documentation, and Quality Management System compliance)
• Actively lead by example and support a strong safety culture ensuring employees are protected, engaged, and productive
• Guide teams to resolve technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution
• Promote a strong culture of quality focused on the engagement of every employee, with adherence to personal stamp warranty, workmanship fundamentals, and attention to detail in the prevention of defects
• Collaborate with site leadership peers within program management and other functional process teams.  Collaborate with Q&MA functional peers at other L3Harris sites
• Develop and implement team & site-wide tactical quality improvement initiatives promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures, customer requirements and government standards.
• Champion, lead, and support the execution of flow-down strategic initiatives
• Measure, monitor, and take action to ensure quality-focused key performance indicator targets are achieved or exceeded
• Report to senior leadership on business performance including action plans to improve business execution and status of strategic initiatives.
• Lead site to maintain certification and compliance efforts for AS9100 and other required certifications. 
• Along with manufacturing operations, co-chair the site Corrective Action Board to oversee rigorous root cause analysis, application of lean/six sigma methods and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Ensure product quality technology is an integral part of engineering design and manufacturing processes
• Execute annual departmental budget and staffing plans
• Identify needed capital investment to support business need (including quality process capacity, capabilities, & technologies)
• Requires up to 5% business travel within the continental U.S.
• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior Quality experience, Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior Quality experience, or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of Quality related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Advanced business knowledge, general management and leadership capability to lead business area or functional teams.
• Broad experience across multiple related professional disciplines within the organization, combining theory, past practical experience and the organization’s business practices.
• 3 or more years of experience directly managing a Quality Engineering or Quality Organization
• 3 or more years managing site certification with AS9100, ISO 9001
• Quality Engineering or Management experience in Aerospace and Defense or closely related industry.
• Direct experience with assembly, test, and inspection processes commonly used to produce aerospace components and sub-assemblies
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.
• Experience identifying nonconformance and applying prevention utilizing industry-recognized Root Cause Corrective Analysis tools such, DMAIC, FMEA, 8D, Cause Networks and applying Lean techniques such as Manufacturing Standard Work and Value Stream Mapping