Director- Manufacturing Quality Assurance

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor Quality Assurance staff at the Huntsville, AL Blue Origin sites:
- Drive quality products throughout the organization by maintaining a culture that emphasizes accountability, structure, and attention to detail at all levels.
- Delivery of business/program Quality commitments across manufacturing operations.
- Work with leadership to identify, lead, and develop the quality actions vital to ensuring program success and meeting contractual promises.
- Identify and mitigate quality risks, demonstrating ownership and teamwork to develop operable solutions and maintain an elite quality system.
- Collaborate with external customers on quality related concerns and participate in customer quality investigations to resolve preventable actions.
- Evaluate customer requirements, perform initial program planning, identify approach for any niche requirements.
- Implement engineering design reviews and make recommendations to improve the quality and manufacturability of new designs.
- Lead all aspects of the Blue Origin Quality Management System compliance, integration and improvements including interface and coordination with 3rd Party certification bodies.
- Execute health assessment process methodologies and perform periodic audits of the application of our quality system, maintaining compliance with company and identified industry standards.
- Lead Quality Assurance business objectives: prepares budgets, analyzes variances, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and leads/mentors teams through robust RCCA when required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.A degree required.
• 10+ years’ experience in quality, manufacturing, test, or operations field.
• Past experience leading or working in quality management systems; familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9000 and/or related quality systems and programs.
• Quality Assurance/Manufacturing experience in development, production, and maintenance environments.
• Strong experience in leadership, planning, and project management.
• Desired: 15+ years total work experience.
• MBA Preferred.
• Experience in aerospace, space launch, military or commercial aviation.
• Blend of small/midsized firm and large firm experience, ability to maximum success using limited resources.
• Knowledge of design for inspection or testability.
• Knowledge of metrology equipment.
• Experience with matrix led organizations.