Director, Enterprise Quality & Configuration Management
QinetiQ US (formerly Avantus Federal) · Middlesex County, MA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$189k–$238k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes a paragraph about company, then "Why Join QinetiQ US?" then "Position Overview". We need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to extract content for each.
We have:
- Company description: "We are a world-class team..." That's about the company, could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for role description. We have "Position Overview". That could be "About the role". We'll treat "Position Overview" as About the role.
- "Why Join QinetiQ US?" could be Benefits? It's about workplace flexibility, health, etc. Could be Benefits section. But we need to see if there is explicit Benefits section. The posting includes "Why Join QinetiQ US?" describing benefits: workplace flexibility, health and well-being, opportunities to work with a purpose, support success professional and personal lives. That's benefits. So we can create a Benefits section with that content.
- Responsibilities: clearly listed under "Responsibilities". We'll put that.
- Requirements: The posting has "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". We need to separate Required Qualifications (mandatory) and Preferred Qualifications (optional). The instruction says use headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could map Required Qualifications to "Requirements" heading, and Preferred Qualifications to "Qualifications" heading? Or we could combine? The instruction: "Use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to extract content for each.
We have:
- Company description: "We are a world-class team..." That's about the company, could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for role description. We have "Position Overview". That could be "About the role". We'll treat "Position Overview" as About the role.
- "Why Join QinetiQ US?" could be Benefits? It's about workplace flexibility, health, etc. Could be Benefits section. But we need to see if there is explicit Benefits section. The posting includes "Why Join QinetiQ US?" describing benefits: workplace flexibility, health and well-being, opportunities to work with a purpose, support success professional and personal lives. That's benefits. So we can create a Benefits section with that content.
- Responsibilities: clearly listed under "Responsibilities". We'll put that.
- Requirements: The posting has "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". We need to separate Required Qualifications (mandatory) and Preferred Qualifications (optional). The instruction says use headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could map Required Qualifications to "Requirements" heading, and Preferred Qualifications to "Qualifications" heading? Or we could combine? The instruction: "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Possibly Skills if present. There's no explicit Skills section but we could embed skills within qualifications. Better to follow the headings that match content.
We have Pay: "Pay Transparency The salary range for this role is $189,000- $238,000 USD." So we need a Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned besides "This role will be on-site and based in Franklin, MA, with occasional travel...". That's location and travel, not schedule. No explicit schedule (e.g., full-time, hours). So we should not create Schedule section.
We also have location/travel info; could be part of About the role or Responsibilities? Probably include in About the role as extra detail.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, accessibility, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details from each section.
We need to format lists with - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Responsibilities (list of bullet points), we need to convert each responsibility paragraph into list items. The responsibilities are given as paragraphs each starting with bold heading? Actually they are sentences: "Enterprise leadership. Lead a team..." etc. We'll treat each sentence as a list item.
Similarly for Required Qualifications: list of items each starting with bold heading? We'll convert each bullet.
Preferred Qualifications similarly.
Benefits: from "Why Join QinetiQ US?" we have several sentences: "If you have the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges, then you will experience a unique working environment where innovative teams blend different perspectives, disciplines, and technologies to discover new ways of solving complex problems. In our diverse and inclusive environment, you can be authentic, feel valued, be respected, and realize your full potential. QinetiQ US will support you with workplace flexibility, a commitment to the health and well-being of you and your family and provide opportunities to work with a purpose. We are committed to supporting your success in both your professional and personal lives."
We can make each sentence a list item.
Pay: just a paragraph with salary range.
We also need to include location/travel info maybe under About the role.
Let's extract About the role content: The "Position Overview" paragraph: "The Director of Enterprise Quality & Configuration Management will lead the quality and configuration management functions across all QinetiQ U.S. entities, spanning both hardware production and services businesses. Reporting to the Vice President of Contracts, Supply Chain and Quality, this strategic leadership role ensures compliance with product quality, certification, contractual requirements, and configuration management across all programs. The near-term priority is two major defense hardware programs at our Franklin, MA site, serving the U.S. Army directly and the U.S. Navy through a prime contractor partner, as they advance from first article and production readiness into sustained rate delivery. The role requires exceptional collaboration across internal teams, suppliers, and customers, working as a peer to Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management, and is accountable for developing the people, processes, and systems that raise quality maturity across the enterprise. It is a strong fit for a leader with both program and operational quality experience who can deliver on priority programs while building an enterprise function that scales."
We can keep that as prose (
) or maybe break into list? It's not a list; we can keep as
.
Also we might include the initial company description? That's more about company, not role. Could be part of About the role? The instruction says "About the role" heading for section about the role. The initial paragraph about company is more about the company; but we could include it as part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's not boilerplate; it's substantive about the organization. However the instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid including company description under About the role. We'll include it as part of About the role content.
Thus About the role will contain: first paragraph about company (world-class team...), then the Position Overview paragraph.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not.
Now we need to strip out boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. At the end we have EEO statement and accessibility/accommodation. Remove those.
Also remove "Pay Transparency" heading? We'll keep the content but not the heading as a heading; we will have a Pay
and then the salary range paragraph.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
...company description...
...position overview...
Responsibilities
- Enterprise leadership. Lead a team of approximately 25 quality engineering professionals and execute the enterprise-wide strategy for Quality & Configuration Management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and driving measurable improvements in product quality, compliance, and delivery performance.
- Production quality. Own product quality on production programs through first article inspection, production readiness reviews, first article and acceptance testing, and rate delivery, including readiness for Government acceptance. Drive process control, first-pass yield, and rolled throughput yield in partnership with Operations.
- Nonconformance and corrective action. Lead material review, nonconformance, and root cause and corrective action to verified closure, with evidence that stands up to customer review. Prevent escapes and reduce the cost of poor quality.
- Customer quality interface. Serve as the primary quality interface with customers, Government quality representatives, and DCMA, leading engagement on audits, corrective action requests, and requests for deviation and waiver.
- Continuous improvement. Establish and drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, or other methodologies to improve yield, escape rate, cycle time, and cost of poor quality, with performance reviewed at program and executive level.
- Enterprise QMS and certifications. Manage compliance across all U.S. entities, ensuring adherence to all contractual, regulatory, and quality standards, including certifications such as AS9100D, ISO 9001:2015, and CMMI-SVC ML3, and mature the enterprise quality management system across operating entities.
- Configuration management. Ensure robust configuration management practices across the product lifecycle, including baselines, configuration control boards, engineering change proposals, deviations and waivers, and as designed to as-built traceability, with a focus on data integrity and contractual compliance. Maintain configuration discipline while engineering change activity is high and production continues.
- Supplier quality. Set supplier quality requirements and flow-downs, and lead source inspection, supplier first article, and corrective action on critical subcontractors and build items, including counterfeit parts prevention in line with DFARS requirements.
- Developing the function. Develop and empower a geographically dispersed, high-performing team, focusing on mentorship, development, and performance management. Build depth in critical skills, establish scalable processes and systems, and move the organization from inspection and reaction toward prevention and predictable performance.
- Cross-functional integration. Work across functional boundaries with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management to build quality and configuration gates into the integrated master schedule, the engineering change process, and material flow, so issues are caught at the gate rather than at test or delivery. Drive decisions without relying on formal authority, and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Executive leadership. Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team, briefing quality and configuration risk, performance, and maturity, and facilitating cross-functional solutions on decisions that affect product quality and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field with 12+ years of relevant experience in Aerospace & Defense Quality and Configuration Management in hardware manufacturing environments, including at least 5 years leading quality managers and engineers.
- Program quality. Proven track record in functional or business leadership roles, with direct responsibility for driving quality outcomes and program compliance on at least one DoD or federal program of record carried from first article or qualification testing into production delivery and Government acceptance.
- Executive communication. Experience preparing and delivering executive-level briefings, clearly articulating quality and configuration management risk, performance, and strategy, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Cross-functional leadership. Expertise in leading cross-functional, matrix teams to achieve business objectives, with demonstrated success driving outcomes across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management without direct authority.
- Building organizations. Demonstrated success in leading geographically dispersed teams, with a focus on team growth and professional development, and a record of building or substantially maturing a quality organization by adding capability, establishing processes and systems, and measurably raising performance.
- Operational quality. Strong background in manufacturing and production, including site- or plant-level quality leadership over material review, nonconformance management, corrective action closure, and process control, with in-depth knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), supplier management, and requirements flow-down processes.
- Configuration management. Hands-on ownership of configuration and change control on hardware programs, including engineering change proposals, deviations and waivers, and configuration control boards.
- Standards and customer interface. Proficient in Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action, and the application of industry-leading quality tools, with working command of AS9100D and AS9102 and direct experience working alongside Government quality representatives or DCMA.
- Self-starter, critical thinker, and results-driven leader who thrives in dynamic environments.
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined under ITAR and EAR.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Management, or a related field.
- ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), Six Sigma Black Belt
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Responsibilities (list of bullet points), we need to convert each responsibility paragraph into list items. The responsibilities are given as paragraphs each starting with bold heading? Actually they are sentences: "Enterprise leadership. Lead a team..." etc. We'll treat each sentence as a list item.
Similarly for Required Qualifications: list of items each starting with bold heading? We'll convert each bullet.
Preferred Qualifications similarly.
Benefits: from "Why Join QinetiQ US?" we have several sentences: "If you have the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges, then you will experience a unique working environment where innovative teams blend different perspectives, disciplines, and technologies to discover new ways of solving complex problems. In our diverse and inclusive environment, you can be authentic, feel valued, be respected, and realize your full potential. QinetiQ US will support you with workplace flexibility, a commitment to the health and well-being of you and your family and provide opportunities to work with a purpose. We are committed to supporting your success in both your professional and personal lives."
We can make each sentence a list item.
Pay: just a paragraph with salary range.
We also need to include location/travel info maybe under About the role.
Let's extract About the role content: The "Position Overview" paragraph: "The Director of Enterprise Quality & Configuration Management will lead the quality and configuration management functions across all QinetiQ U.S. entities, spanning both hardware production and services businesses. Reporting to the Vice President of Contracts, Supply Chain and Quality, this strategic leadership role ensures compliance with product quality, certification, contractual requirements, and configuration management across all programs. The near-term priority is two major defense hardware programs at our Franklin, MA site, serving the U.S. Army directly and the U.S. Navy through a prime contractor partner, as they advance from first article and production readiness into sustained rate delivery. The role requires exceptional collaboration across internal teams, suppliers, and customers, working as a peer to Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management, and is accountable for developing the people, processes, and systems that raise quality maturity across the enterprise. It is a strong fit for a leader with both program and operational quality experience who can deliver on priority programs while building an enterprise function that scales."
We can keep that as prose (
) or maybe break into list? It's not a list; we can keep as
. Also we might include the initial company description? That's more about company, not role. Could be part of About the role? The instruction says "About the role" heading for section about the role. The initial paragraph about company is more about the company; but we could include it as part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's not boilerplate; it's substantive about the organization. However the instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid including company description under About the role. We'll include it as part of About the role content. Thus About the role will contain: first paragraph about company (world-class team...), then the Position Overview paragraph. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not. Now we need to strip out boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. At the end we have EEO statement and accessibility/accommodation. Remove those. Also remove "Pay Transparency" heading? We'll keep the content but not the heading as a heading; we will have a
Pay
and then the salary range paragraph. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:About the role
...company description...
...position overview...
Responsibilities
- Enterprise leadership. Lead a team of approximately 25 quality engineering professionals and execute the enterprise-wide strategy for Quality & Configuration Management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and driving measurable improvements in product quality, compliance, and delivery performance.
- Production quality. Own product quality on production programs through first article inspection, production readiness reviews, first article and acceptance testing, and rate delivery, including readiness for Government acceptance. Drive process control, first-pass yield, and rolled throughput yield in partnership with Operations.
- Nonconformance and corrective action. Lead material review, nonconformance, and root cause and corrective action to verified closure, with evidence that stands up to customer review. Prevent escapes and reduce the cost of poor quality.
- Customer quality interface. Serve as the primary quality interface with customers, Government quality representatives, and DCMA, leading engagement on audits, corrective action requests, and requests for deviation and waiver.
- Continuous improvement. Establish and drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, or other methodologies to improve yield, escape rate, cycle time, and cost of poor quality, with performance reviewed at program and executive level.
- Enterprise QMS and certifications. Manage compliance across all U.S. entities, ensuring adherence to all contractual, regulatory, and quality standards, including certifications such as AS9100D, ISO 9001:2015, and CMMI-SVC ML3, and mature the enterprise quality management system across operating entities.
- Configuration management. Ensure robust configuration management practices across the product lifecycle, including baselines, configuration control boards, engineering change proposals, deviations and waivers, and as designed to as-built traceability, with a focus on data integrity and contractual compliance. Maintain configuration discipline while engineering change activity is high and production continues.
- Supplier quality. Set supplier quality requirements and flow-downs, and lead source inspection, supplier first article, and corrective action on critical subcontractors and build items, including counterfeit parts prevention in line with DFARS requirements.
- Developing the function. Develop and empower a geographically dispersed, high-performing team, focusing on mentorship, development, and performance management. Build depth in critical skills, establish scalable processes and systems, and move the organization from inspection and reaction toward prevention and predictable performance.
- Cross-functional integration. Work across functional boundaries with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management to build quality and configuration gates into the integrated master schedule, the engineering change process, and material flow, so issues are caught at the gate rather than at test or delivery. Drive decisions without relying on formal authority, and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Executive leadership. Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team, briefing quality and configuration risk, performance, and maturity, and facilitating cross-functional solutions on decisions that affect product quality and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field with 12+ years of relevant experience in Aerospace & Defense Quality and Configuration Management in hardware manufacturing environments, including at least 5 years leading quality managers and engineers.
- Program quality. Proven track record in functional or business leadership roles, with direct responsibility for driving quality outcomes and program compliance on at least one DoD or federal program of record carried from first article or qualification testing into production delivery and Government acceptance.
- Executive communication. Experience preparing and delivering executive-level briefings, clearly articulating quality and configuration management risk, performance, and strategy, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Cross-functional leadership. Expertise in leading cross-functional, matrix teams to achieve business objectives, with demonstrated success driving outcomes across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management without direct authority.
- Building organizations. Demonstrated success in leading geographically dispersed teams, with a focus on team growth and professional development, and a record of building or substantially maturing a quality organization by adding capability, establishing processes and systems, and measurably raising performance.
- Operational quality. Strong background in manufacturing and production, including site- or plant-level quality leadership over material review, nonconformance management, corrective action closure, and process control, with in-depth knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), supplier management, and requirements flow-down processes.
- Configuration management. Hands-on ownership of configuration and change control on hardware programs, including engineering change proposals, deviations and waivers, and configuration control boards.
- Standards and customer interface. Proficient in Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action, and the application of industry-leading quality tools, with working command of AS9100D and AS9102 and direct experience working alongside Government quality representatives or DCMA.
- Self-starter, critical thinker, and results-driven leader who thrives in dynamic environments.
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined under ITAR and EAR.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Management, or a related field.
- ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), Six Sigma Black Belt