Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the VP of Quality in evolving priorities and organizational needs, adapting capacity and focus as required
• Enabling Quality team leaders and division members to maximize efficiency and quality output through coaching and resource alignment
• Building internal delivery rhythms, KPIs, and OKRs that drive team alignment, execution fidelity, and risk management
• Leading cross-team initiatives requiring executive sponsorship and accountability, acting as go-to problem solver for ambiguous challenges
• Partnering with Quality Systems Engineering to deploy and track KPIs through scorecards to inform decisions at QBR, MDPR
• Fostering cross-functional relationships, embedding quality and compliance fluency throughout partner functions
• Providing strategic oversight and ensuring product line governance in accordance with DCMA compliance and federal mandates
• Serving as the connective tissue across the organization,coordinating, communicating, and facilitating
• Owning Product Quality Engineering strategy across all new product development by appropriately leveraging the following functions at the appropriate phase gates: Reliability, System Safety, Supplier Quality, and Quality Systems Engineering
• Owning day-to-day factory quality engineering and sustainment; owns Productization/Recovery execution (productionization, stabilization, ramp support)
• Ensuring efforts to embed Quality at the source are executed and implemented by operationalizing findings from Design for Quality, DFM, and FSS risk management methodologies
• Developing and executing mitigation strategies identified through root cause analysis, FMEA, and trend analysis; translating findings into design improvements and process enhancements
• Driving DFMEA and PFMEA activities, coaching teams to proactively identify and mitigate risks before they materialize
• Establishing product validation and verification protocols (DV, PV, reliability testing) aligned with industry best practices
• Driving design review governance, supporting critical phase-gate reviews to ensure quality criteria are satisfied at each milestone
• Partnering with R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to create closed-loop corrective action systems that feed learnings into next-gen designs
• Building and leading a high-performing Product Quality Engineering team with expertise in statistical methods, DOE, MSA, and process capability
• Establishing a center of excellence for statistical analysis, providing tools, templates, mentorship, and governance for data-driven decision-making
• Leading capability maturity assessments for product development processes, implementing improvement roadmaps
• Serving as Quality voice in PDP governance, aligning product strategy, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing capabilities
• Partnering with Supplier Quality to ensure early establishment of supplier quality engagement protocols, co-developing quality agreements and performance metrics
• Driving Voice of the Customer integration into product requirements and quality standards
• Leading production readiness assessments, validating process capability, tooling, training, and quality systems
• Owning product quality scorecards tracking first-pass yield, defect rates, warranty returns, and field reliability
• Facilitating post-launch reviews to capture lessons learned and feed insights into the Product Development playbook

XML job scraping automation by YubHub

You will work with responsible engineers who are designing → building → and delivering complex customer programs.

The ideal candidate will leverage their experience to deliver highly complex, optimized, multi-disciplinary products and programs.

If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality processes with suppliers, work hands-on with engineering, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

This role will support our 2nd shift teams and expected to work 3PM-11:30PM.

Responsibilities:

• Willingness to engagement with product development Teams to achieve quality expectations for AIS products

• Drive product development to achieve quality experience for AIS products by implementing product engineering activities like process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes, parts and sub-assemblies.

• Drive clarity & resolution for development ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact the product meeting it’s quality & reliability goals for volume production.

• Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable, high rate manufacturing process and supply chain.

• Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle.

Engage in quality activities from concept through development and manufacturing to field use.

• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements.

Assist in Defining and improving such requirements.

• Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap.

• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities.

Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.

• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities.

Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance.

• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.

Define and improve required documentation and activities.

• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level.

• Own the identification and elimination of product quality risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle.

Support the quality planning from production concept/customer requirements through development and manufacturing to field use.

• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements to meet quality performance targets.

Define and improve such requirements.

Partner with production to ensure incoming material inspection, process control plans, and end of line test capture the essential quality requirements for successful customer shipments.

• Open to travel between HQ (CA) and Ohio based on program needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field

• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in aerospace/defense or similar hardware.

• Working knowledge of design review and quality management of precision mechanical parts & sub-assemblies, PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.

• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization.

Leading the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.

• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).

• Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.

• Application of industry standards and best practices to meet government customer quality expectations.

• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.

• Analytical skills and experiences for data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MatLab, JMP, Minitab, etc.)

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a technical field

• 5-7 years of experience with developing quality systems for high volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.

• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in for communications systems used for Intelligence Community (IC) customers

• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.

• Experience with IPC standards

• Experience with government contracts and mil standard requirements

• Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks, Jira, Tableau, and Altium (or other PCBA and harness design software)

XML job scraping automation by YubHub

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

In this position, you will be responsible for:

• Understanding daily warranty claim reports by participating in binning meetings and leading to resolution working with a cross-functional team.
• Understanding Daily End of Line (EOL) & Customer Acceptance Line (CAL) and First Time Through (FTT) inhibitors related to subsystem and driving containment and corrective action.
• Ensuring quality control management updates for subsystem are maintained and adjusted as outcome of External / Internal Indicator. Managing Heat maps for the subsystem to ensure all critical Workstations are identified for improvement opportunities.
• Conducting Control plan audits to ensure frequency, sampling to achieve Process capability on Key Critical Characteristics related to subsystem.
• Owning the Quality and the capability of the manufacturing processes within the Assembly department.
• Applying engineering principles and analytical techniques to drive continuous improvement to manufacturing processes as per the Ford Production System (FPS).
• Leading development of interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality issues using 8D methodology and structured problem-solving tools.
• Playing an integral role in the Launch Quality Operating System initiatives & Launch process by establishing and monitoring quality target levels at the workstation level for each build phase to validate workstations readiness.
• Conducting process audits to ensure process adheres to Vehicle Operations guidelines and specific process standards in line with FPS.
• Acting as team leader in resolving assembly related concerns. Leading variability reduction and lean manufacturing initiatives and best practices.
• Supporting ISO 14001 compliance and supporting internal ISO auditing and compliance as required.
• Leading development of solutions for throughput constraints.
• Managing and directing statistical process control activities related to subsystem.
• Reviewing internal/external suppliers for critical characteristic process compatibility.
• Supporting efficiency planning to ensure workstations are properly set up with quality risks identified and addressed.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology or related discipline.
• Master’s degree in engineering or related discipline is an asset.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of manufacturing experience in quality or technology.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of or experience with:
• 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving
• Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping
• Total Quality Management (TQM) and Kaizen Methods
• Visual Factory Management
• Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook)
• Experience using error proofing systems
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Factory Information System Management
• Quality Leadership System (QLS)
• Based Single Agenda for Quality (BSAQ)
• Web Based Data Management (WBDM
• Global System for Analytics and Reporting (GSAR
• Six Sigma Certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Models outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills.
• Able to think critically and troubleshoot to deliver industry leading quality
• Highly committed to process improvement and innovative solutions with a customer-first mindset.
• Demonstrates inclusion and values diversity.
• Perseverance and tenacity to drive results.

Benefits

• The expected annual salary range for this position is $74,000.00 - $124,000.00 and individuals may be eligible to participate in our Annual Compensation bonus program.
• Successful candidates will be required to provide proof of degree completion for the highest level of education attained. If the degree was obtained from a school outside of Canada, an Education Credential Assessment report showing Canadian equivalency is also required.

XML job scraping automation by YubHub