Acara Solutions has been providing aerospace firms nationally with our staffing services for over 60 years. Our national/international aerospace client, that has been around for many decades, has a plant in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. They are looking for a Quality Manager to join their organization. This is a direct salaried employee position with a base salary range target of $120K - $130K (some flexibility), plus bonus.
This is an onsite position just minutes from pristine white sandy beaches at the resort town of Ft. Walton Beach. Relocation assistance provided.
The Quality Manager will have 8 direct reports (4 QE's, 3 quality techs, and 1 quality supervisor with 8 inspectors on that team). This is an aerospace electronics facility.
The Quality Manager is the lead facilitator of AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality system through requirements definition and full compliance flow-down into value streams including employee training and awareness to assure safety, conformity and product reliability requirements are met This position provides quality leadership and has full responsibility for Quality at Fort Walton Beach Site regarding the Quality Management System (QMS), customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, for product life cycle from Product development, Production, Supply Chain to Product Support. The incumbent must be a proven effective quality leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, sense of urgency, demonstrated performance results and a continual improvement mindset.
- Directly lead and manage functional quality organization on a day-to-day basis at FWB to meet all Aerospace AS9100 QMS requirements
- Lead Design Quality within Product Development Process by integrating organization, industry, and customer quality requirements into new design development projects using Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) based on AS9145
- Effectively manages the supply base quality performance over the lifecycle (selection, qualification, management, monitoring and measurement. Ensure that the quality of purchased materials meets requirements and comply with applicable regulations.
- Establish a zero-defect culture by leading the deployment and continuous improvement of based on AS9145
- Ensure the effectiveness of measurement and monitoring systems to achieve improvement in Site business key metrics and quality processes key metrics.
- Develop and implement a quality organizational structure capable of supporting the strategic initiatives and lead the efforts to integrate quality into development of short and long terms business plans. Establish proactive business impact for the quality function
- Led effort to define and train employees on root-cause analysis and problem-solving tools to identify effective corrective actions/process improvements
- Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality
- Analyze and resolve customer complaints and field reliability issues. Coordinate product and component failure analysis. Drive corrective action, and inspection of all program hardware to J-STD-001 and IPC610 and documentation and supplier quality improvements
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering (ideally Electrical, but Mechanical, Chemical and similar acceptable)
Min 5 years of supervisory or management experience in manufacturing Quality Assurance in the defense, space electronics, or high-end aerospace industry, including exposure to product development design quality.
This is an aerospace ITAR facility - U.S. Persons required (Green Card acceptable)
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
Electronics manufacturing
Automotive experience
-IPC 610, JSTD 001, AS9100 nice to have
-APCP PPAP, AS9145 preferred
Minitab
Six Sigma Belt
SPC