Quality Engineering Manager, Disks (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2023-11-06

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW103: Columbus GA 8801 Macon Road, PO Box 9903, Columbus, GA, 31908 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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Summary:

The  Quality Engineering Manager, Disks plays a highly visible, key leadership role in ensuring the successful execution of the quality engineering function for Forged Powder Metal Disks in the AIM Module Center (Airfoils and Isothermal Manufacturing). The Quality Engineering Manager, Disks will be a key member of the quality leadership team, a position which offers an exciting opportunity to grow professionally and broaden capabilities, while proudly leading the Disks Quality Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and management for a team of Quality Engineers and Quality Technicians

• Providing functional compliance and leadership for the Powder Metal Disk Forgings BU with a goal of flawless production execution and quality product output  

• Accountable for timely quality support of the on-time delivery of quality compliant powder metal disks including production meeting support, responsible for quality heat clearance of disks. 

• Strong professional leadership, and collaboration across the organization and with suppliers

• Quality leadership and partnership with Manufacturing Engineering and Ops Teams in the goal of scrap reduction, aged QN reduction, new production introduction, EC's, process tryouts and FAI’s. Achievement of KPC1 & 2 process control goals

• Development of a QE skills and proficiency tracking. Mentorship and support of their learning, training and development goals. Responsible for recruiting, employee engagement and talent retention

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace preferred) and minimum of 8 years' experience in a manufacturing engineering and/or quality engineering environment or a Master's degree and minimum 5 years' experience in a manufacturing engineering and/or quality engineering environment

• Strategic Leadership experience in day-to-day operations; leadership experience driving a culture of safety and quality across the production organization; demonstrated history and experience working compliantly to quality procedures

• Proficient and expert knowledge of root cause analysis and robust, validated corrective and preventative action methodologies, inspection, manufacturing processes and use of lean tools

• Ability to lead a cross functional team to develop new data driven, integrated business processes using process flow diagramming/maps and deploy them with disciplined standard work and tools

• Experienced in PFMEA, Control Plans for APQP, Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), PPAP, and Statistical Process Control (SPC); metallurgical, forging, heat treat and ultrasonic NDT process knowledge

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering

• Solumina and SAP Proficiency

• Metallurgical and NDT process knowledge

• Forging and Heat Treat process knowledge

• Prior experience in aerospace or automotive industries

Additional Information:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen. This position may require access to systems/tools that are restricted to individuals who possess US citizenship

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