Supplier Quality Engineering Associate Manager

Lockheed Martin•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Space Quality Assurance Team has a great opportunity for a Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) Associate Manager (Assoc Mgr) located at one of our Continental United States facilities. The SQE Assoc. Mgr role is responsible for ensuring the flow down of requirements to suppliers, supplier assessments, supplier improvement, assuring quality management systems, and coordinating supplier assignments. The SQE Assoc. Mgr will lead a team of Supplier Quality Engineers who work from main Lockheed sites or remotely. You must be a motivated change agent, responsible for providing resource management to ensure that the right skills are being applied across the team while ensuring mission success and efficiency. The Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) organization focuses on Standardized Process, Cross-functional Alignment and Upstream Prevention. This role will be crucial in standardizing our supplier assessments and supplier improvement and the processes the team follows.

Requirements

Leadership or team lead experience prioritizing and able to managing workload to meet program need dates
Demonstrated change agent with experience implementing continuous process improvements
Demonstrated knowledge of quality management systems (AS9100, ISO9001, or anything else)
Knowledge of Supplier Quality activities
Bachelor's or Master's degree from an accredited college in technical discipline (e.g., engineering field) or equivalent discipline (e.g., math, physics, chemistry, etc.)
US Citizenship is required
Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
Ability to travel

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in Supply Quality competencies
Experience working on and leading diverse, geographically dispersed teams
Inclusive and customer focused behavior and problem-solving abilities
Experience developing employees, building constructive partnering relationships with suppliers, customers, employees, and/or other Business Areas within your company
Proven ability to manage Quality Assurance efforts in accordance with enterprise-level command media and Program specific requirements
Strong interpersonal skills, oral and written communication skills and organization skills
Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt
American Society for Quality Certifications
Familiarity with LM Procure to Pay (P2P), SAP, and/or EPDM systems
5+ years of related experience

Responsibilities

Ensuring the flow down of requirements to suppliers
Supplier assessments
Supplier improvement
Assuring quality management systems
Coordinating supplier assignments
Leading a team of Supplier Quality Engineers
Providing resource management to ensure the right skills are applied across the team
Standardizing supplier assessments and supplier improvement processes