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.

Responsibilities

• 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 manage the supply base quality performance over the lifecycle (selection, qualification, management, monitoring and measurement) to ensure that the quality of purchased materials meets requirements and comply with applicable regulations
• 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
• Develop and implement 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 with Government Contracts, DLA, DCMA

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (EE, ME, MSc., Chem) from an accredited institution

Skills

• Strongly preferred experience with APQP tools – Process flow Diagram, FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, Process Capability, SPC
• AS9100 Auditor experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• ASQ CQM, CQE
• Experience with electronics manufacturing methods including precision GD&T Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Machining and Grinding
• Experience with NADCAP special processes requirements
• Experience with electronics manufacturing methods including IPC-610 Class 3 and IPC J-STD-001, MIL-PRF-38534 Hybrid Electronics
• Experience with DO-254 HW, DO-178 SW
• Experience with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies

Benefits

As a team member at Crane Aerospace and Electronics, you’ll enjoy:

• Health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Time Off: 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 12 paid holidays per year
• 401k Retirement Plan: 401k plan with company match
• Education Reimbursement: eligible after 6 months of employment

We are committed to operational excellence and world-class processes. We employ Lean manufacturing techniques to optimize manufacturing efficiency and accuracy on all product lines. Our products are known for their technical strength, proven reliability, and overall value. In our efforts to maintain a safe and drug-free workplace, Crane Aerospace & Electronics requires that candidates complete a satisfactory background check. FAA sensitive positions require employees to participate in a random drug test pool.