Senior Manager Supplier Quality

You will lead supplier-quality activities across aerospace and defense suppliers. You will establish priorities and execution plans, develop quality leaders and engineers, oversee supplier qualification and audits, manage quality risks and corrective actions, and improve supplier-quality processes, systems, analytics, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop the supplier quality team
• Establish supplier-quality priorities, resources, staffing, workload, and execution plans
• Develop Supplier Quality leaders and engineering personnel
• Oversee supplier qualification, risk assessments, performance reviews, audits, and source inspections
• Ensure supplier compliance with quality, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements
• Escalate supplier-quality risks and direct corrective-action and supplier-recovery efforts
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams
• Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
• At least 7 years of relevant experience
• 2–5 years of leadership or people-management experience
• AS9100
• ISO 9001
• Root cause analysis
• 8D
• 5 Whys
• Fishbone analysis
• Supplier qualification
• Supplier development
• PPAP
• First Article Inspection
• AS9102
• ITAR
• EAR
• DFARS
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Outlook
• ERP
• MRP
• Ability to travel up to approximately 20%

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity