Job Description Summary

This role is for the Turbine Airfoils Advanced Quality Leader within the Product Safety & Quality organization. The Advanced Quality Leader is an accomplished and forward-thinking People Leader for a team that will serve as the strategic arm of our Turbine Airfoil Quality organization. Reporting directly to the Part Family Quality Leader, this role is pivotal in driving proactive transformations, lead strategic initiatives that enhance quality processes and outcomes, implement policy enhancements to address systemic issues, and fostering a culture of operational and problem solving excellence.

The successful candidate will lead a diverse team of data analysts, (Master) Black Belts, APQP experts, and Advanced Quality Engineers. This team will also be pivotal in supporting and equipping the broader Turbine Airfoils Quality team with the skills and methodologies needed to achieve superior execution, redesigning processes to align with organizational objectives and continuous improvement principles to create a culture of team based problem-solving and standardization within the manufacturing shops & suppliers and across the value stream.

The successful candidate will lead a diverse team of data analysts, (Master) Black Belts, APQP experts, and Advanced Quality Engineers. This team will also be pivotal in supporting and equipping the broader Turbine Airfoils Quality team with the skills and methodologies needed to achieve superior execution, redesigning processes to align with organizational objectives and continuous improvement principles to create a culture of team based problem-solving and standardization within the manufacturing shops & suppliers and across the value stream.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• People Leader of Individual contributors with Junior, Mid-career, and Senior professional direct reports. Includes roles that are experts in their discipline, requiring professional and thoughtful leadership.
• Requires a people leader with ability to hire and develop talent. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of Turbine Airfoils design & Quality, and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy.
• Defines and leads the implementation of the quality organization, process and tools to support strategy. It implements a Zero-Defect culture of Quality in the organization and defines and leads improvement initiatives to achieve business excellence.
• Manages medium to large teams. Developing expertise within Quality and Turbine Airfoils manufacturing. Pivotal to the cultural and technical transformation of the TAVS quality team.
• Grow the reputation of the organization. Creates and Influences policy and ensures delivery within own function, linking with other functions of the organization.
• Communicates complex messages and negotiates internally and externally with others. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.
• Has major influence on part family Quality
• Leads others to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Works collaboratively across organizations on advanced technology developments for manufacturing and quality applications. Identifies gaps in the current state of digital systems and tools to enable more effective data analytics for KPIs and problem solving.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Turbine Airfoil Quality).
• Additional 8 years of experience in Turbine Airfoils Quality, Castings, Manufacturing, and/or Engineering
• US Person (Refer to Internal Revenue Code section 7701(a)(31) for the definition)

Desired Characteristics

• Quality Expertise and/or Turbine Airfoil Mechanical Design Expertise
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, accountable 
• Strong Recognized Leadership ability, strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Working knowledge of APQP initiatives and application experience with PPAP elements
• 3+ Years of successful People Leadership experience and demonstrated success in creating a Career Growth Pipeline
• Established project management skills.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker