The Program Quality Lead will oversee Quality in U.S. and foreign programs within the Coyote portfolio at the Tucson, AZ location. The role will drive a robust quality culture, practices, and collaboration efforts, and ensure the program meets all Quality & Mission Assurance requirements.
Requirements
- Develop partnerships with senior leaders, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team
- Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers
- Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency of the Stinger program
- Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA) and FRACAS activities for systemic issues and to ensure extensive RCCA
- Support implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable
- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of prior relevant experience
- Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems
- Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action
- Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes
- Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications
- Experience Reviewing Statement of Work (SOW), Corrective Action Requests (CAR)
- Experience interfacing directly with customers
- Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Control Board (CCB)
- Experience exercising judgement and apply resolution-making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention
- Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management
- Experience translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation
- Experience applying interpersonal skills and working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment
- Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102
- Experience with performance to cost, schedule, and technical performance including Cost Accounting Methodologies (Earned Value)
- Experience with one or more of the following: Rockets/Missiles, Electro Optical/RADAR systems, manufacturing of electrical systems and testing, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) requirements, CCA manufacturing to IPC/EIA JSTD-001, Class 3
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
