Sr Quality Manufacturing Staff Manager 2

Sr Quality Manufacturing Staff Manager 2

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited University or College.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Production Quality or related Manufacturing or Engineering field.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Durham teammates to drive quality within operations.
• Leadership of both quality assurance and quality control. Includes quality assurance of products, services, and assembly processes.
• Leadership for deployment of standardized quality improvement planning across the shop in line with GE Aerospace’s Proactive Quality Strategy and Zero Defect Culture.
• Drive integration of Durham quality organization in quality framework pillars: APQP, Read Across, and others.
• Drive connection to the broader ATMRO quality organization.
• Presents projects plans, risks and recommendations to senior business leaders within quality space and occasionally to senior leaders in partner technical teams.
• Communicates solutions across own function and with cross-functional partner organizations.
• Supports recruitment and development of the Quality team.
• Execute strategies related to quality assurance and quality control of products, services, and manufacturing processes.
• Work collaboratively with the Durham team to identify systemic quality issues and develop robust root cause corrective actions.
• Utilize Lean and Six Sigma tools to monitor and drive process improvement and producibility activities in partnership with the design engineering organization.
• Drive preventive and corrective actions to assure product compliance to specifications.
• Partner with the Durham team to assess the operations needs and develop solutions.
• Engage with regulatory authorities as well as certifying bodies (i.e.: FAA, DNV, etc.) to maintain compliance and certifications to industry requirements and best practices.
• Work on cross functional teams to drive Quality priorities.
• Build strong relationships with key customers and suppliers, and ensure customer requirements are evaluated, documented and flowed down properly, and products are validated.
• Support activities such as field issues and failures investigations, root cause analyses and implementation of corrective actions, lessons learned issues and consequently design standard updates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Quality management system awareness.
• Experience with customer quality communications.
• Ability to lead and influence peers.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed.
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative.
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.