Job Description
BAE Systems is seeking a Quality Director in support of our F-35 Solutions Product Line. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Quality in the Electronic Combat Systems Business Area, the selected candidate will lead the teams responsible for quality assurance, continuous improvement, and lifecycle management. The F35 Solutions Quality Director has significant cross functional influence, and requires the ability to partner across functions, factories, customers and suppliers to provide strategic thought leadership as well as proactive, value-added solutions that systemically benefit the value chain.
Key responsibilities include:

• Provide direction, supervision, and guidance to ensure alignment with quality policy, strategic objectives and organization goals that drive to Zero Defect plans and Strategy.
• Collaborate with senior management for planning, execution, and management of risk mitigation, process improvements, projects of special interest, and Product Line or Business Area related initiatives.
• Develop a highly capable quality assurance staff by recruiting, organizing, and developing team.
• Manage compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and minimize risk to employees and liability to the Product Line.
• Ensure products conform to established company and regulatory performance and quality standards.
• Interface with stakeholders to ensure requirements are met.
• Develop and implement program quality plans and procedures.
• Lead integrated teams to determine strategy and tactical deployment, improve performance, lower costs, and generate innovative solutions with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Partner with customer teams and directly with customers on quality improvement to enhance the customer experience.
• Drive advanced quality tool maturation for both new product release and in mature program process modernization initiatives.
• Champion innovative ideas impacting affordability and production on the factory floor.
• Review, analyze and report on quality KPIs and data within Product Line.
• Investigate problems and develop disposition and corrective actions for discrepancies using proven RCCA techniques and driving sustainable preventive improvements.
• Partners to implement corrective actions, dispositions, process optimization and modifications - makes the news, doesn't just report the news.
• Encourage high level collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Organizational skills - can marshal resources to get things done, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, use matrixed resources effectively and efficiently, and arrange information in a useful manner.
• Exhibits a high degree of technical credibility and communicates highly technical information in a simplistic and easily understandable way.

The successful candidate:

• Enjoys working with and coaching quality managers and business leaders to continuously improve, execute success across programs and projects.
• Has the ability to influence without authority at times, in a dynamic highly matrixed environment, and respond to changing customer and market demands quickly.
• Possess strong communication and presentation skills to facilitate effective communication at all levels of the organization and across multiple cultures as well as to the customer and partner communities.
• Needs to be a hands-on leader willing to take responsibility for resolving technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution, as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision.
• Has an agile leadership style and able to adjust one's approach to fit the situation as a driver, coach, mentor, or teacher.
• Ability to evaluate organization effectiveness and build teams working together to achieve common goals.
• A visible, influential leader who takes a collaborative approach with others and comes across as approachable.
• Relates well with individuals at all levels of the organization, builds appropriate rapport, constructive and effective relationships.
• Can diffuse even high-tension situations effectively.
• Has experience bidding projects, managing department budgets and utilization, and possesses a strong working knowledge of lifecycle management, program and business operations.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Required Education, Experience and Skills include:

• LSS Green Belt
• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Technical Field and 12+ years of experience
  • 12 years of relevant leadership experience in Engineering, Operations, and Quality, preferably with 5 years as a Quality Director.
  • 10 years of project, program and portfolio Quality Leadership and management experience in regulated industries, such as automotive or aerospace, commercial and defense hardware and software technology risk management.
• Demonstrated mastery of the functional domain in Quality Sciences, strategies, standards, and controls. Ability to guide implementation in appropriate applications through design and development into a high-mix/low-volume manufacturing and supply base.
• Strong written, analytical, and verbal communication skills.
• AS9145 APQP/PPAP experience, implementation and maintenance internally through the product life cycle and with partner suppliers.
• Collaborative, project management skills.
• 5 years of experience with Best in Class Manufacturing Principles, techniques, and Zero Defect tools and processes.
• Capable of influencing a wide range of audiences, demonstrated leadership skills to win support without direct reporting structure.
• Formulate strategic vision, define implementation plan of action, execute to achieve success.
• Track record of building teams with high levels of Quality acumen.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills

• Black Belt certification
• Master's Degree
• ASQ CMQ, CQE certification or similar.
• Approachable hands-on style with the ability to engage with people at all levels of management. Customer experience and Quality Excellence.
• Experience in leading matrixed direct and indirect teams.
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, retaining and promoting talent and creating a high performing organization.
• Must be able to demonstrate accomplishments in setting strategic direction, prioritizing tasks, overcoming obstacles, and achievement with high priority.

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $164000 - $278800
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere - from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact - for our customers and the communities we serve.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At BAE Systems, we work hard every day to nurture an inclusive culture where employees are valued and feel like they belong. We are conscious of the need for all employees to see themselves reflected at every level of the company and know that in order to unlock the full potential of our workforce, everyone must feel confident being their best, most sincere self and be equipped to thrive. We provide impactful professional development experiences to our employees and invest in social impact partnerships to uplift communities and drive purposeful change. Here you will find significant opportunities to do meaningful work in an environment intentionally designed to be one where you will learn, grow and belong.