Quality Production Specialist (Mid-Level or Senior) - QMS Focal

Quality Production Specialist (Mid-Level or Senior) - QMS Focal

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quality Production Specialist (Mid-Level or Senior) - QMS Focal to join our team located in New Orleans, LA.

This position will be responsible for leading the HSV Multi-Site QMS activities. Successful candidates will need to have extensive experience working with Quality Management Systems (QMS) and will require experience implementing a new or significant redesign of a QMS

Position Responsibilities:

Level 3:

• Reviews and validates product non-conformances and disposition type, quality procedures and engineering requirements. Performs analysis to identify and evaluate the quality of products, operations and processes to Quality Management System requirements, applicable company procedures, contract requirements or government regulations. Applies knowledge of aerospace design, systems and integration to perform failure and forensic analysis of aerospace components and systems. Trains and mentors fellow employees in the Quality Management System. Performs root cause analysis on the nonconformance to identify the cause and prevent reoccurrence. Independently develops, modifies and documents actions to assure problem resolution or to implement corrective/preventive action and documents resolution. Obtains corrective action on nonconforming plans and hardware/processes. Negotiates concurrence, obtains commitments for taking preventive and corrective action, prioritizes quality activities and ensures problem resolution. Reviews and validates the corrective action plans and identifies effectivity to ensure completion. Reviews and approves Quality planning changes or disposition of nonconformance hardware products/processes. Guides validation of configuration management, quality procedures and material review policies to deliver the software products. Develops software system processes to support changing industry standards. Reviews and implements corrective action on audit results to ensure media is stored and handled per engineering defined requirements. Interprets industry standards and provide recommendations for implementation. Creates analytical reports and coordinates with the responsible parties for internal/external distribution. Works under general direction.

Level 4:

• Leads Quality reviews of proposals, contracts, regulatory, program and customer requirements ensuring early quality involvement in program development and their effective implementation into the Quality Management System (QMS).

• Represents the Company on industry working groups to develop industry standards for quality and advises senior leadership on development of business strategies that influence directives and policies. 

• Develops Quality budget and cost estimates. 

• Leads and advises on multi-function, multi-site groups to develop company directives, policies, processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer, regulatory requirements, international standards and working agreements are deployed, to include statutory and AS9100 requirements. 

• Leads stakeholders in analysis of process data, metrics, models and flows to identify root cause of complex problems and development and implementation of preventive or corrective actions. 

• Conducts research, compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics to continuously improve process capability. 

• Conducts quality source selection and process capability assessments of suppliers' ability to meet program quality requirements and support business decisions. 

• Consults in high level reviews of corrective actions at the site, enterprise and customer level to assure that trends or systemic issues are identified and advises on development and implementation of corrective actions.

• Develops Quality criteria for supplier source selection and a coordinated response for review and approval by senior management. 

• Develops scope, schedule, plans and leads hardware, software and system level audits to determine compliance with quality management system standards, configuration assurance, related business, regulatory and customer requirements, and reports results to management. 

• Trains senior management on preparation for third party audits. 

• Conducts business unit risk analysis to determine focus areas and develops and manages business unit audits plans and schedules.

• Performs benchmarking of enterprise or industry best-practices.

• Interacts and negotiates directly with National Quality Assurance (NQA) auditors (or eq