Manager Quality Engineering

Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

This role is in Textron System’s Marine & Land Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com& Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!

About This Role
We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:

A Quality Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that the business unit location or group has all necessary systems, procedures and processes in place to remain compliant with governing quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee activities of both the Quality Engineering and Weld Engineering teams in support of Sea and Land Programs.
- Prioritize and lead execution of Discrepancy Item (DI) resolution in support of Production and Test milestones.
- Analyze quality trends and determine high drivers from the perspective of schedule, cost, risk, and disruption. Lead associated Root Cause and Corrective Action efforts.
- Ensure quality requirements and standards are developed, applied and maintained for the development and manufacture of products within the group or location.
- Ensure maintenance of all necessary quality records and documentation in support of the group or location in accordance with the Quality Manual and specific customer requirements.
- Ensure methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection are designed, documented and effectively implemented to meet quality standards and requirements.
- Ensure all necessary quality-reporting measures are developed and executed. Analyze outputs to identify best practices, opportunities for improvement and risk areas and ensure necessary corrective actions are taken where applicable.
- Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses.
- Ensure processes are in place for the review of customer purchase orders and specifications, change requests and contracts and that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in the quality and process plans.
- Ensure appropriate systems exist for the review of suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.
- Conduct internal quality audits in accordance with documented processes and standards.
- Interface with external auditors, suppliers and customer quality representatives concerning quality assurance standards and systems are functioning effectively and that effective corrective action processes are in place when failures occur.