Senior Manager, Quality Management

Senior Manager, Quality

L3Harris Fuzing and Ordinance Systems is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality to serve as the Cincinnati, OH site quality leader. This role 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. This includes driving continual process and product improvement, ensuring product and process integrity, customer satisfaction and overall mission success while supporting quality, delivery and cost targets.

Essential Functions :

• Provide leadership, direction, and support to the various Quality Assurance teams to ensure deliverables are produced to meet quality standards set by government, regulatory, customer and L3Harris corporate requirements.
• Responsible for the Quality Engineering, Quality Inspection, Quality Systems and Supplier Quality functions, supporting all business practices, including quality planning, compliance monitoring and validation for programs, hardware, software, and inspection.
• Responsibility for resolving technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution, as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision for the Quality department.
• Develop and implement Quality initiatives and programs promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures, government standards and directives, and commercially proven methodology and ensure that the department conforms to these principles.
• 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.
• Ensure product quality technology is an integral part of engineering design and manufacturing processes. Drive advanced product quality planning throughout the product maturity cycle.
• Promote a strong culture of quality focused on every employee engaged and enhancing the customer experience through rigorous attention to detail and prevention of defects.
• Work 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.
• Ensure the maintenance of quality records that document the quality status of material / products and provide necessary information for internal and external reviews.
• Maintain certification and compliance efforts for AS9100 and other required certifications.
• Lead robust root cause analysis, application of lean / six sigma methods and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Measure, monitor, and take action to ensure quality-focused key performance indicator targets are achieved or exceeded.
• Apply L3Harris policies, procedures and standards that are relevant to the respective program and functional organizations.
• Executing yearly departmental budget and staffing plans.

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