Senior Manager, Quality Management

Harris Geospatial Solutions; Mississippi; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies seeks a Senior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance to lead the Q&A function at the NASA Glen Stennis site in MS. You will manage ~25 direct reports and drive zero-defect, on-time delivery through robust quality processes.

Responsibilities include overseeing QA teams (engineering, inspection, documentation, QMS), leading corrective actions, and maintaining AS9100/ISO 9001 certifications while partnering with site leadership to meet contractual requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12+ years quality experience, or 16 years if no degree.
• 5+ years of management experience.
• 3+ years managing site certification with AS9100, ISO 9001.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA teams across Quality Engineering, Inspection, Documentation, and QMS compliance.
• Promote safety culture and employee engagement.
• Guide teams to resolve technical challenges for on-time delivery.
• Collaborate with site leadership and other locations.
• Lead corrective actions and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain AS9100 and other certifications.
• Oversee budgeting and staffing plans.
• Identify capital investments to support quality processes.

Skills

Quality leadership

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget management

Security clearance

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (Quality or Engineering)

Graduate Degree

Tools

AS9100 / ISO 9001 Knowledge

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Manager, Quality & Mission Assurance

Job Code: 42140

Job Location: Stennis Space Center, MS

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days; four day work week with Friday’s off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&A) to serve as the quality functional leader for the Missile Solution Segment’s facility located at NASA Glen Stennis Space Center, MS. The site is a center of excellence for large liquid rocket engine assembly and hot fire test. This position is responsible for leading a team of approximately 25 direct reports. The Q&A team ensures delivered products conform to contractual and L3Harris requirements for product quality throughout the engine assembly, test, and post-delivery support. They ensure adherence to and compliance with established quality policies, practices, and government regulations. This includes implementation and leadership of strategies that will directly impact the successful zero-defect, on-time delivery of products.

Essential Functions:

• Provide leadership, direction and support across multiple Quality Assurance teams (Quality Engineering, Product Acceptance / Inspection, Product Configuration Documentation, and Quality Management System compliance)
• Actively lead by example and support a strong safety culture ensuring employees are protected, engaged, and productive
• Guide teams to resolve technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution
• Promote a strong culture of quality focused on the engagement of every employee, with adherence to personal stamp warranty, workmanship fundamentals, and attention to detail in the prevention of defects
• Collaborate with site leadership peers within program management and other functional process teams. Collaborate with Q&A functional peers at other L3Harris sites
• Develop and implement team & site-wide tactical quality improvement initiatives promoting sound and effective principles as set forth in company procedures, customer requirements and government standards.
• Champion, lead, and support the execution of flow-down strategic initiatives
• Measure, monitor, and take action to ensure quality-focused key performance indicator targets are achieved or exceeded
• Report to senior leadership on business performance including action plans to improve business execution and status of strategic initiatives.
• Lead site to maintain certification and compliance efforts for AS9100 and other required certifications.
• Along with manufacturing operations, co-chair the site Corrective Action Board to oversee rigorous root cause analysis, application of lean/six sigma methods and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Ensure product quality technology is an integral part of engineering design and manufacturing processes
• Execute annual departmental budget and staffing plans
• Identify needed capital investment to support business need (including quality process capacity, capabilities, & technologies)
• Requires up to 5% business travel within the continental U.S.
• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior Quality experience, Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior Quality experience, or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of Quality related experience.
• 5 plus years of management experience
• 3 or more years managing site certification with AS9100, ISO 9001

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Advanced business knowledge, general management and leadership capability to lead business area or functional teams.
• Broad experience across multiple related professional disciplines within the organization, combining theory, past practical experience and the organization’s business practices.
• 3 or more years of experience directly managing a Quality Engineering or Quality Organization
• Quality Engineering or Management experience in Aerospace and Defense or closely related industry.
• Direct experience with assembly, test, and inspection processes commonly used to produce aerospace components and sub-assemblies
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.
• Experience identifying nonconformance and applying prevention utilizing industry-recognized Root Cause Corrective Analysis tools such, DMAIC, FMEA, 8D, Cause Networks and applying Lean techniques such as Manufacturing Standard Work and Value Stream Mapping

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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