Brief Description:

Our client is seeking a talented and driven Director of Quality Assurance to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for consistently improving overall quality and maintaining a Quality Management System (QMS), keeping up with an evolving product line, and changing customer requirements.

Job Function:

Role & Responsibilities

• Evangelize quality practices throughout the Company, championing continual improvement.
• Administer and maintain the company's AS9100-registered Quality Management System while serving as the expert resource on compliance across the company.
• Manage the quality department, including quality engineers, reliability engineers, inspectors, and other personnel.
• Administer internal Corrective and Preventative Action Requests (CAR/PAR)
• Lead DLA qualification and retention actions for QPL products and new processes that may be implemented.
• Respond to our customers' Supplier Corrective and Preventative Action Requests, including failure analysis reports and root cause analysis.
• Perform and Oversee Internal Audits as part of company's QMS
• Lead company-wide audits by external certifying agencies and customers, such as our annual AS9100 Audit
• Prepare Company-wide Metrics for Management Review Process
• Write new, update existing, and train employees on the Company's Corporation Standard Operating Procedures, RIIs and Forms
• Perform failure analysis on RMA and in-house failures and produce reports.
• Coordinate outside test lab analysis as needed

Job Requirement:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field and 8 years working experience
• Proven leadership and mentorship skills.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in AS9100 environment (spaceflight preferred)
• Minimum 5 years of experience with hybrid microelectronics
• Expertise in a wide range of manufacturing processes (e.g. MIL-PRF-38534 or J-STD-001 etc.)
• Familiarity with test methods in MIL-STD-883 and MIL-STD-202
• Experience with working in an ESD safe environment
• Ability to work both independently and in cross functional teams with proven history of meeting deadlines.
• Elite technical writing ability; this job requires consistent writing of reports and chart packages for customer delivery.
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office products
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined by EAR Part 772 and ITAR 120.15

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous experience at DoD prime contractor
• Experience in manufacturing of crystal oscillators or related RF technologies
• Knowledge of testing for space qualification of electrical components and assemblies
• Strong background in statistics
• Ability to see the bigger picture in terms of the wider business and to think strategically.
• Ability to communicate articulately and professionally across many organizational levels and cross functional teams.
• Technical knowledge with Lean manufacturing practices and the Six Sigma methodology