Sr. Manager, Quality & Mission Assurance

Sr. Manager, Quality & Mission Assurance

The Aerojet Rocketdyne Segment of L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance to serve as the quality leader for the Aerojet Rocketdyne Segments Missile Solution Sector Advanced Manufacturing Facilities in Huntsville, AL. This is a critical role for the Missile Solutions Sector of Aerojet Rocketdyne and requires a dynamic, technical leader with a proven track record of leading change, inspiring others, and driving continual process and product improvement. This position will be responsible for leading all aspects of Quality throughout the product lifecycle.

Essential Functions :

• Provide leadership, direction and support to the various Quality Assurance teams to ensure deliverables are produced to meet quality standards.
• Responsible for the Quality Engineering, Quality Inspection, and Quality Systems, supporting all business practices.
• Responsibility for resolving technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution, as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision for the Quality team.
• Champion, lead, and support the execution of key strategic, corporate, and / or customer driven initiatives including : Advanced Product Quality Planning, Zero Defect Planning, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement.
• Develop and support site and functional strategic alignment.
• Collect and analyze key quality measures such as cost of poor quality to develop zero defect plans, improve yields and reduce rework during engineering and manufacturing efforts.
• Reports on business performance, including action plans to improve business execution and status of strategic initiatives, to senior leadership.
• Ensures product quality technology is an integral part of engineering design and manufacturing processes. Drive advanced product quality planning throughout the product maturity cycle.
• Promotes a strong culture of quality focused on every employee engaged and enhancing the customer experience through rigorous attention to detail and prevention of defects.
• Works closely with the program teams and the functional organizations to ensure that all phases of the customer life cycle, from early customer involvement through post-delivery support, meet the requirements for mission success.
• Ensures the maintenance of quality records that document the quality status of material / products and provide necessary information for internal and external reviews.
• Maintains certification and compliance efforts for AS9100 and other required certifications.
• Leads robust root cause analysis, application of lean / six sigma methods and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Measures, monitor, and take action to ensure quality-focused key performance indicator targets are achieved or exceeded.
• Applies L3Harris policies, procedures and standards that are relevant to the respective program and functional organizations.
• Requires up to 10% business travel to Missile Solutions Headquarters in Huntsville, AL.
• Ability to commute between Huntsville sites.
• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance.

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