Leader of Quality and Safety - Millennium Space Systems

Boeing • El Segundo, CA

18h

About The Position

Millennium Space Systems, part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space. Its missions include missile warning and Earth observation. The Director of Quality and Safety leads the company’s efforts to build quality and safety into its processes and ensure finished products meet company and customer standards. The role is primarily internally focused: securing resources for the team, identifying improvements that make teams more efficient and effective, and working across the company to implement those improvements.

The Director partners with engineering leadership to integrate quality into design processes and promote design for manufacturability; works with manufacturing leadership to ensure quality assurance is efficient, lightweight, and scalable; and works with supply chain leadership to improve supplier onboarding, specifications, and incoming materials. The role also leads the Quality System, Quality Assurance, and Safety staff and represents the company to customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders on quality and safety matters. The position is internally coded as Quality Multifamily Manager and is hiring at Level L.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in manufacturing and quality.
• At least 3 years of experience supervising engineers or technicians.
• In-depth knowledge of AS9100 or similar quality systems.
• Firsthand experience with quality audits.
• Must be able to obtain a U.S. security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government for clearance eligibility.
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 to meet U.S. export control compliance requirements.
• Must be willing to apply for and maintain a security clearance.
• Must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest assessment process.

Nice To Haves

• Aerospace industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Prior experience working with members engaged by a collective bargaining unit.
• Prior experience with safety standards, metrics, or audits.
• Familiarity with Jira and the Manufacturo manufacturing execution system (MES).
• Experience with statistical process control.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the reporting entity for the Quality System, Quality Assurance, and Safety staff.
• Work with the team to monitor discrepancy (non-conformance) reports and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) reports and determine when assistance is needed.
• Determine resource allocations for efficient, scalable quality assurance and safety protocols in manufacturing, receiving, and other locations as appropriate.
• Build metrics and reporting that provide insight into product quality assurance and safety status.
• Provide teams and leadership with actionable summaries of trends and other issues.
• Identify and develop longer-term initiatives, informed by data, to develop tests or acquire equipment that improve quality assurance and safety.
• Make processes as efficient and lightweight as possible to support higher build rates.
• Lead the Quality Management System and work with teams to ensure processes meet AS9100 and other applicable requirements and are represented in the QMS.
• Help staff lead investigations to determine the root cause of problems.
• Develop budgets and allocate funding for process improvements and corrective actions.
• Run Kaizen Blitz events or similar efforts to focus attention on streamlining or improving processes.
• Organize and assist with audits of processes to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Represent the company before customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders on quality and safety issues.
• Organize supplier quality processes and surveillance audits.
• Provide input to the development and maturation of manufacturing execution system (MES) and product lifecycle management (PLM) tools.
• Develop training for teams.
• Hire team members and advocate for staffing.
• Mentor quality engineers, quality inspectors, and safety personnel.
• Work with the Chief Engineer and VP of Engineering to integrate quality into design processes and promote design for manufacturability.
• Work with the VP of Manufacturing to ensure quality assurance is efficient, lightweight, and scalable.
• Work with the Director of Global Supply Chain to improve supplier onboarding, supplier specifications, and incoming material quality.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed