Your knowledge of Aerospace Engineering and strong experience of Quality Engineering team management, will play a crucial part leading 10 Operations based Quality Managers / Assurance Engineers / Program Engineers, as a Program Development & Quality Assurance Manager.
*Act as the point of escalation for all quality matters with the customer.
*Direct departmental budget responsibility c £100k.
*Leads a team of approx. 10 Operations based Quality Managers / Assurance Engineers / Program Engineers.
*Point of contact for Twinsburg (USA) site to ensure compliance and customer matters are appropriately communicated and actioned.
*Leads the team in the achievement of program quality, customer satisfaction and quality improvement targets via site policy deployment framework.
*Understand customer needs and requirements to develop and implement effective quality assurance processes throughout the design, initial and continuing airworthiness phases of the product life cycle.
*Support and guide the business in identification / deployment / maintenance of compliant quality frameworks through quality manuals and expositions.
*Main point of contact with programs for customer quality interaction for escalation.
*Identify business wide training needs, system weaknesses and opportunities to improve methods of functional and business working through audits and make recommendations (including expenditure) to deliver these actions.
*Ensures compliance with all Customer, EASA/CAA/FAA/TCCA/CAAC (Part 21 & 145), ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements and audits and actively lead the closure of any corrective actions or required improvements.
*Develop and deploy the audit strategy (including training/assessment/resourcing of lead auditors) on an annual basis in conjunction with the Quality Systems Manager.
*Mentor and coach team as needed ensuring annual training plans are in place and team are developed to meet business needs.
To be suitable for the Program Development & Quality Assurance Manager role, you will need proven experience of leading a team with increasing levels of responsibility within an aerospace manufacturing / engineering environment and an understanding of how a business infrastructure works, particularly matrix organisation. You will need Solid understanding of requirements including EASA, CAA, FAA, T CCA, CAAC, ISO9001 and AS9100, along with an ability to lead and mentor others in the process of QRQC, 8D, etc. You will need to be a Lead auditor with effective communication and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation.
Keywords: Quality Assurance, Quality Manager, Audit, Aerospace, Production, Manufacture, QMS, EASA, CAA, FAA, T CCA, CAAC, ISO9001, AS9100.