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Job Title: Supplier Quality Engineering Manager

Job Number: 30991

Job Location:Mason, Ohio

Job Description: L3Harris Space & Sensors Division is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineering Manager. The Manager of Supplier Quality leads a professional Supplier Quality Engineering Team that evaluates and develops suppliers in quality procedures, quality plans, inspection and testing techniques and specifications for high reliability products that remain failure free. The successful candidate will actively lead the team toward timely solutions that will support internal and external customers. The Manager will ensure that the team provides thorough and practical, risk-based solutions to a wide range of technical CI and issues through the application of quality engineering disciplines and tools.  This position is responsible for Cost Account Management (CAM) for program activity to include input for bid and proposal activity. 

Essential Functions: 

• Actively leads a Quality Engineering team with agility to address technical issues in support of the internal and external program and production teams.
• Manages quality engineers who develop quality plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures and standards, including detailed instructions, check lists, sampling plans, classification of defects, etc. to ensure all products meet process, system and contractual quality requirements.
• Ensures that quality engineering effectively reviews, interprets and flows down customer contractual quality requirements to the program office, engineering, manufacturing, and inspection.
• Must communicate and interface successfully with external and internal customers by discussing quality specifications and actions taken to prevent or correct problems with our products.
• Oversees and ensures the success of quality engineers who review engineering and manufacturing information on new and revised designs, specifications and bills of materials; production, tool and test equipment drawings; production and tool plans; operations and routing sheets: production, storage and shipping methods to assure that products meet customers’ requirements with minimum variation and ease of inspection.
• Ensures that quality engineering provides timely, thorough, practical and risk-based solutions to a wide range of technical production problems involving the utilization of manufacturing and quality engineering techniques. 
• Leads and manages quality engineering teams that effectively perform investigations to determine the root cause of product and process nonconformance utilizing Green/Black Belt techniques.
• Ensures that quality engineering initiates and follows-up on inspection and test methods and procedures to ascertain proper administration and compliance with all requirements.  Assists in cost reduction through Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Leads, mentors and assists in preparing quality cost estimates for proposals including estimates for special processes, services and techniques required for performance of the proposed programs in a CAM role.
• Build and maintain a role in supporting cross-functional internal teams with Engineering, Operations, Program Management and Suppliers as required.
• Assist in training employees of all functions in quality, ISO9001, AS9100, customer requirements and company practices, including indoctrination of employees to quality principles.
• Prepares job descriptions, interviews and hires proficient candidates for the Supplier Quality Engineering Team.
• Support the new supplier selection process, providing technical input and expertise.  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• Working familiarity and knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP and CMMi.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Able to read and interpret electrical and mechanical drawings and schematics.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management, peers and other employees relative to quality and technical issues.
• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner and capable of assessing the risks that may result from the decisions being made.  Capable of working independently and dynamically with minimum oversight with multiple and/or changing priorities.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Minitab.
• Have sufficient financial background to perform, lead and mentor Cost Account Management (CAM) activity within the team.
• Must be able to identify nonconformance or noncompliance and apply prevention utilizing Green/Black Belt techniques such as DMAIC, FMEA, etc. and apply Lean techniques such as Standard Work and Value Stream Mapping.
• Must have strong team building and support skills, along with practical mechanical and/or electrical assembly and inspection knowledge.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 10 or more years of experience in electro-mechanical manufacturing environments with experience in mechanical and electronics assembly.
• 5 or more years of experience directly managing a Quality Engineering or Quality Organization with more than five Quality Engineers.
• 10 or more years as a Quality Engineering or Quality Manager.
• Aerospace or Defense Manufacturing Experience.
• Working familiarity and knowledge of AS9100, NADCAP and CMMI Level 3.
• Experience working with DCMA and government contracts.
• Knowledge of engineering and production processes such as design, develop and produce high-reliability mechanical and electronic systems and sub-systems.
• Experience with J standards for electronic manufacturing.
• Experience with drawing interpretation and GD&T.
• Experience with hands-on mechanical and electronic inspection techniques.
• ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.

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