Senior Supplier Quality Manager

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Mesa, AZ

Senior Supplier Quality Manager role at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, focusing on managing supplier quality, ensuring compliance with contract requirements and regulations, and driving continuous improvement in the supply base. Requires experience in quality management, supplier management, team leadership, and the aerospace industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages employees performing supplier quality activities to ensure that suppliers' production and quality systems, special processes, products and services meet purchase contract requirements and applicable regulatory agency and government regulations
  2. Develops and executes business plans, policies and procedures and develops organizational and technical strategies to improve supplier performance
  3. Provides education and coaching on the Quality System
  4. Acquires and manages resources and leads process improvements
  5. Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, suppliers and direct reports.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, business or technical field
  • More than 5 years of experience in Quality, Supplier Quality or Supplier Management
  • More than 5 years of experience managing or leading people or teams
  • More than 3 years of experience working in the aerospace industry
  • More than 3 years of experience with communication and presenting strategies at executive/VP levels

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or higher
  • Experience working as a Quality Engineer or Supplier Quality Engineer
  • More than 1 year interfacing directly with suppliers
  • Experience working with Boeing Supply Chain tools and processes
  • 3+ years of experience working with quality systems (e.g., Boeing Quality Management System (BQMS), International Organization for Standardization (ISO9001), Aerospace Standard (AS91001))
  • Lean Six Sigma certification

What the JD emphasized

  • quality systems
  • continuous improvement
  • supplier quality