Sr Quality Manager- Electronics

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for a Sr Quality Manager- Electronics at our Fort Walton beach, FL location. 

About Crane:

Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). 

Located minutes away from picturesque white-sand beaches and emerald green water, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Fort Walton Beach location is home to our Defense Power business – a leading supplier of high-power solutions for aerospace & defense applications. You’ll join a trusted, dynamic organization that supplies prime defense manufacturers with custom radar, directed energy and electric warfare solutions for placement on innovative, next-gen military platforms. Join us and our growing business as we supply solutions that enable the latest defense technology!

Job Summary:

• This position provides quality leadership and has full responsibility for Site Quality regarding the Quality Management System (QMS), customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, for product life cycle from Product development, New product Introduction, Production, Supply Chain to Product Support.

• The incumbent must be a proven effective quality leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, sense of urgency, demonstrated performance results and a continual improvement mindset.

Essential Functions:

• Directly lead and manage functional quality organization on a day-to-day basis to meet all Aerospace AS9100 Quality Management System requirements
• Lead Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) within Product Development/ New product Introduction Process by integrating organization, industry, and customer quality requirements into new design development projects using AS9145
• Effectively manages the supply base quality performance over the lifecycle (selection, qualification, management, monitoring and measurement. Ensure that the quality of purchased materials meets requirements and comply with applicable regulations.
• Establish a zero-defect culture by leading the deployment and continuous improvement of based on AS9145
• Ensure the effectiveness of measurement and monitoring systems to achieve improvement in Site business key metrics and quality processes key metrics.
• Develop and implement a quality organizational structure capable of supporting the strategic initiatives and lead the efforts to integrate quality into development of short and long terms business plans. Establish proactive business impact, planning, budgeting, resource allocation, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources for quality function.
• Led effort to define and train employees on root-cause analysis and problem-solving tools to identify effective corrective actions/process improvements
• Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality
• Analyze and resolve customer complaints and field reliability issues. Coordinate product and component failure analysis. Drive corrective action, and inspection of all program hardware to J-STD-001 and IPC610 and documentation and supplier quality improvements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience:
  • 5+ years Quality assurance experience in the defense, space electronics or high-end aerospace industry; additional Automotive experience is a plus.
  • 5+ years in a management role
  • Experience with advanced product quality planning in high reliability product development/ new product introduction
  • Experience with DCMA, DLA
• Experience with electronics manufacturing methods including IPC-610 Class 3 and IPC J-STD-001, MIL-PRF-38534 Hybrid Electronics
• Education/Certification: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (EE-preferred, ME, MSc., Chem) from an accredited institution
• Eligibility Requirement: This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government. Additionally, as a US Department of