Sr Quality Director

About the role

The Senior Director of Quality for the Fluid Management Solution provides strategic and tactical quality leadership across multiple manufacturing sites, ensuring robust deployment of the AS9100-compliant Quality Management System (QMS), regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, and product lifecycle quality. Scope spans Product Development, New Product Introduction (NPI), Production, Supply Chain, and Product Support. This leader is key to the continued implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and the mentoring and coaching for the team in AS9145. The role requires a proven, results-driven quality leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, a strong sense of urgency, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• The Sr. Quality Director is the lead facilitator of AS9100 Quality Management System through full compliance flow-down into all business aspects to assure safety, airworthiness, conformity and product reliability are met across multiple Crane sites.
• Lead APQP within Product Development/New Product Introduction Process by integrating organization, industry, and customer quality requirements into new design development projects using 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 across the multi-site businesses 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 term business plans.
• Establish proactive business impact, planning, budgeting, resource allocation, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources for quality function.
• Lead 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 and documentation and supplier quality improvements.

Requirements

• 15+ years Quality assurance experience in the defense, space electronics or high-end aerospace industry in a management role, preferably with multi-site experience; additional Automotive experience is a plus.
• Experience with business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources.
• Experience with advanced product quality planning in high reliability product development/new product introduction.
• Experience with FAA, EASA, CAAC Part 21 and Part 145.
• Experience