Senior Enterprise Quality & Assurance Leader

Airservices; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place To Work

Flexible working

Competitive salary

Paid parental leave

Income protection

Corporate rewards

Salary packaging/Novated leasing

Employee stock purchase plans

Flu shots, skin checks and discounted

Career development

Job summary

KBR in Australia seeks a Senior Manager, Quality Assurance to provide strategic leadership across the Quality organisation. This role drives quality systems, governance, and continuous improvement across multiple disciplines and product lines, with emphasis on regulatory obligations and contractual requirements.

The successful candidate will lead senior teams, act as technical authority in audits and testing, and ensure products meet safety and performance standards.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate qualification in Quality, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of Quality Management experience, including leadership of senior professionals.
• Experience leading multiple quality disciplines within a complex organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior functional leadership across quality disciplines, teams, and operational areas to deliver business and customer outcomes.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of quality systems, processes, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure quality practices align with objectives, contractual requirements, regulatory obligations, and product performance expectations.
• Provide technical authority across quality assurance, audits, inspections, testing, and quality improvement methodologies.
• Oversee assurance activities to ensure products, materials, and processes meet quality, safety, and compliance standards.
• Analyse quality performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead corrective and preventative action processes to strengthen performance.
• Drive consistency of quality practices across functions, product lines, and environments.
• Contribute to development of quality strategy, enterprise standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to improve reliability and delivery outcomes.
• Build capability across Quality through coaching and mentoring.

Skills

Quality management

Leadership

Audits

Governance

Education

Undergraduate qualification in Quality, Engineering, or related

Postgraduate qualifications in Quality or Engineering (Desirable)

Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt (Desirable)

Job description

KBR in Australia seeks a Senior Manager, Quality Assurance to provide strategic leadership across the Quality organisation. This role drives quality systems, governance, and continuous improvement across multiple disciplines and product lines, with emphasis on regulatory obligations and contractual requirements.

The successful candidate will lead senior teams, act as technical authority in audits and testing, and ensure products meet safety and performance standards.