Quality Program Manager

Lockheed Martin•Riviera Beach, FL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

This requisition is for a Level-4 Quality Program Manager supporting the Autonomy, Intelligence, and Maritime Solutions (AIMS) Market Segment within the LM RMS Line of Business (LOB). This position will support various Programs at the Palm Beach, FL facilities from both a Quality Program Manager perspective as well as a Product Quality Engineering role, reporting to the onsite Program Quality Manager. The candidate must have a validated history of strong performance and ability to take initiative across a variety of QA responsibilities/tasks on development and/or sustainment type programs. The chosen candidate is expected to quickly come-up to speed with the programs’ products, Hardware PQA work scope, technical requirements, program risks, achievement schedules and the supporting infrastructure.

Requirements

Excellent Written and Oral communication skills
AS9100 Familiarity
Advanced use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Strong data/analytical skills, including metric development and data analysis to provide insight into opportunities to improve and optimize execution
Proficiency with hardware engineering requirements development and design, and system integration and test
Experience as a program or functional lead
Advanced understanding of manufacturing and hardware engineering processes.
Candidate must be able to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance
DoD contract experience and customer communications
Experience with Manufacturing Execution System and Manufacturing Requirements Planning

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience in GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)
Proficient with BI HANA/SAP/Solumina
AS9100 Audit Lead or Participation Experience
Audit Experience
Previous experience as DCMA or Government Customer Interface
Lean/Six Sigma black or green belt
Experience with subsurface vehicles
Experience with Model Based Engineering and/or Reduced Dimension Drawings
Demonstrated inclusive and customer focused behavior and problem-solving abilities
Ability to mentor personnel and build effective relationships with customers, peers, and other functional areas
Experience monitoring and maintaining compliance with budget allocations; previous Control Account Manager (CAM) experience a plus.

Responsibilities

Creation and evaluation of ROMs and Proposals
Create, review, and provide input to Contractor Performance Assessment Review (CPAR) self-assessment
Perform program performance reviews tracking critical metrics
Identify root causes and associated corrective and preventive actions, evaluate process/product performance, and participate/work with the engineering and production counterparts on program activities to assure processes and products are compliant to contractual requirements
Ability to evaluate and disposition production nonconforming hardware and analyze defect data to identify systemic issues and trends
Build sound labor estimates on ongoing proposal efforts
Participate in program hardware change control boards, as the need arises
Support inspection activities to verify systems are 100% compliant with the requirements and to present systems to customer representative(s) for acceptance
Provide mentorship to the Corrective Action Board (CAB) teams for programs that are being supported
Support implementation of advanced manufacturing/quality techniques i.e., Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Lean Manufacturing
Support a growth mindset by embracing transformation through OneLM to create a collaborative Model Based Enterprise (MBE) with a full digital thread integrated with all stakeholders throughout the life cycle of a program.
Lead and/or support program/functional process improvement and cost savings initiatives through; Functional Excellence Planning (FEP), Program Excellence Planning (PEP), Quality Program Teams (QPT), Performance Management Teams (PMT), etc.