Senior Manager, Supplier Quality, Altius

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead a cross-discipline engineering team that focuses on PCBA, avionics, cameras, batteries, energetics, precision machined parts, electro-mechanical integration, cable and wire harnesses, as well as contract…
• Lead the partnership with our design teams to support the design development process, provide design for manufacturability feedback, and help generate product data for supplier quality success.
• Systematically drive the supplier quality development processes throughout the product development stages with the product engineering team through design reviews, supplier process development, testing, and…
• Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, sourcing engineering, category management, and program management to deliver predictable supply to the development programs, production programs, and…
• Ensure supplier quality readiness by analyzing key and critical characteristics for drawings and supplier specifications, developing measurement systems, and driving supplier qualification activities (PPAP, FAIR,…
• Strategically partner with Category Management and Sourcing Engineering to drive overall supplier performance for cost, quality, delivery, and fulfillment of strategic sourcing goals.
• Define and structure key process indicators (KPIs) and effectively use performance data to drive alignment and results across multi-site organizations.
• Drive continuous improvement in supplier quality, cycle time, and delivery performance. Establish technical strategies for supplier performance with both internal resources (sourcing, business systems, Anduril…

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field.
• Minimum of 10 years of supplier or operations quality management. Minimum of 5 years in a management role with a track record of growth in Supplier Quality Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Experience evaluating and auditing imaging, gimbals, electromechanical, PCBA, propulsion, energetics, composites, mechanical parts, and electro-mechanical sub-assemblies manufacturing processes.
• Experience setting priorities for both development and production phases of the product life cycle.
• Experience flowing down Source Control requirements to suppliers.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements. AS9100 Lead/Internal Auditor Certification is a plus.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 Industry Standard and ensuring suppliers have control plans and inspection processes that are capable of meeting product requirements.
• Experience with driving supplier performance and evaluation. Experience with Statement of Work (SOW), quality clauses, intellectual property (IP), and government regulations such as ITAR.