Position Title: Aerospace Quality Manager
Position Overview:
A leading aerospace company seeks a highly organized and experienced Aerospace Quality Manager to lead and optimize its Quality Department. The ideal candidate will bring a robust quality background, ideally with both technical quality experience and proven leadership skills. While a Quality Engineering background is highly preferred, we are open to candidates with diverse quality-focused backgrounds within aerospace who have demonstrated success in managerial roles. This is a hands-on role, with an emphasis on transitioning to a more strategic leadership approach as responsibilities are gradually delegated to team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and Develop the Quality Team: Oversee the Quality Department of approximately 15 members, providing mentorship and structure to enhance team performance.
- Implement and Refine Quality Processes: Ensure that all quality inspection and control processes meet or exceed aerospace industry standards, with a focus on improving capacity and effectiveness.
- Hands-On Leadership: Take an active, hands-on role initially to understand team dynamics and processes, with a view to eventually delegate tasks to leverage team strengths.
- Team Optimization: Assess current team members' strengths, reassign roles as necessary, and create a cohesive, high-performing team focused on quality excellence.
- Production Flow Management: Collaborate with production and scheduling teams to ensure alignment with shipping deadlines, understanding and integrating production flow and quality timelines.
- Quality Assurance and Compliance: Maintain rigorous quality standards across aerospace manufacturing processes, particularly in sheet metal applications and CMM operations.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in a Quality Manager role within the aerospace industry, with experience in quality inspection and CMM operations.
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, organize, and optimize team structures to meet quality and production goals.
- Aerospace Quality Expertise: Extensive knowledge of quality processes, standards, and best practices specific to the aerospace industry.
- Preferred Experience: Hands-on experience in sheet metal applications in aerospace manufacturing.
- Organizational Skills: Demonstrated capability in managing workflows, prioritizing schedules, and ensuring timely adherence to shipping deadlines.
Ideal Candidate Attributes:
- A collaborative, hands-on leader with a proactive approach to quality management and team development.
- An adaptable team builder who is skilled in assessing individual and team strengths and optimizing roles to drive departmental success.
- An organized, strategic thinker who understands the complexities of aerospace production flow and quality requirements.
This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by enhancing the Quality Department’s capacity, ensuring high standards in aerospace manufacturing, and contributing to the overall success of the company’s production goals.