Key Responsibilities
Strategic Quality Leadership
* Formulate and execute the organization's Quality strategy in alignment with business objectives and customer expectations.
* Establish and sustain a culture of quality excellence, continuous improvement, and operational discipline across the organization.
* Serve as the principal authority on all quality-related matters and provide strategic guidance to senior leadership.
* Drive quality transformation initiatives to enhance product reliability, process capability, and customer satisfaction.
Quality Management Systems (QMS)
* Lead the development, implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the Quality Management System.
* Ensure compliance with applicable standards, including but not limited to: o AS9100
o ISO 9001
o Defense and Aerospace Quality Requirements
o Customer-specific Quality Standards
* Conduct periodic management reviews and ensure organizational readiness for internal, customer, regulatory, and certification audits.
* Establish governance mechanisms to monitor compliance and drive corrective actions where necessary.
Product and Process Quality Assurance
* Ensure quality assurance throughout the product lifecycle, including design, development, qualification, manufacturing, testing, integration, and field support.
* Establish robust quality planning, inspection, validation, and verification processes. * Lead initiatives to prevent defects, reduce variability, and improve process capability. * Oversee non-conformance management, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and lessons learned implementation.
Define and implement supplier quality strategies to ensure consistency and reliability throughout the supply chain.
* Oversee supplier qualification, audits, assessments, and performance evaluations. * Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain teams to develop strategic supplier quality improvement programs.
* Ensure supplier compliance with contractual, regulatory, and quality requirements. Regulatory Compliance and Customer Interface
* Act as the primary quality interface with customers, regulatory agencies, certification authorities, and defense organizations.
* Lead customer quality reviews, inspections, acceptance activities, and audit engagements. * Ensure compliance with all contractual, statutory, and regulatory obligations. * Support major defense and aerospace programs through effective quality governance and risk mitigation.
Reliability and Continuous Improvement
* Champion reliability engineering principles and quality improvement methodologies across all programs.
* Lead initiatives involving FMEA, SPC, APQP, First Article Inspection (FAI), process validation, and reliability assessments.
* Drive Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence initiatives aimed at improving productivity and reducing the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
* Establish quality metrics and dashboards to monitor organizational performance and drive data-based decision making.
Leadership and Organizational Development
* Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing quality organization.
* Strengthen technical capabilities, succession planning, and leadership development within the Quality function.
* Foster collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Programs, Supply Chain, and Customer Support functions.
* Promote a culture of accountability, integrity, and continuous learning
Technical Competencies
* AS9100, ISO 9001 and Aerospace Quality Standards
* Quality Management Systems and Compliance
* Reliability Engineering and Product Assurance
* Supplier Quality Management
* APQP, PPAP, FAI and Process Validation
* FMEA, SPC, MSA and Statistical Quality Tools
* CAPA and Root Cause Analysis
* Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
* Configuration Management and Change Control
* Risk Management and Quality Governance
* Defense and Aerospace Regulatory Requirements
