Director of Supplier Quality

Job Description
You don't see it, but it's there. Our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics - from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F-35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you'll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry's most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too. We put our customers first - exemplified by our missions: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®" and "We Innovate For Those Who Move The World®." Sound like a team you want to be a part of?

Come build your career with BAE Systems at Fort Wayne, IN. Our flexible work environment provides you with a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Fort Wayne is centrally located between Indianapolis, Detroit, and Chicago for nearby cultural offerings and professional sports. It is the perfect size city; having enough selections of a big city yet small enough for convenience.

The Successful Candidate:

BAE Systems is seeking a Director of Supplier Quality, who will report to the Controls and Avionics Solutions (CAS) Senior Director of Quality and dotted line to the sector Senior Director of Supplier Quality. This role will be accountable for developing, maintaining, and optimizing Supplier Quality assurance strategy, reducing supplier quality risks and ensuring conforming products from the supply base. You will need to build strong relationships with the supply chain, operations, programs, and other quality functions to understand and translate requirements into a robust supplier quality executable plan that prevents disruptions and customer defects. In support of your supplier quality strategy, you will closely partner with the core teams of the sector supplier quality function to ensure the supply base is assessed, qualified, and consistently delivering a quality product. This will be a highly visible and key role to delivering value for the business. This individual must be a self-starting leader who can effectively partner with multiple functional organizations, internally, and suppliers, externally for success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, communicate and drive a proactive Supplier Quality program for the business
• Measure, maintain, analyze and communicate all Supplier Quality metrics, risks, and planned actions, and drive continuous improvements efforts at suppliers for improvement (CAR meetings, SRB, Mitigation meetings, etc.)
• Partner with the Supplier Chain function to enforce contract/purchase order requirements, assess and develop suppliers, and drive robust RCCA with suppliers
• Investigate, evaluate, and resolve supplier quality problems by analyzing defect trends, issuing SCARs, implementing improvement plans, conducting audits, and leading continuous improvement projects to drive a zero defects mindset
• Responsible for developing a collaborative environment with suppliers, engineering, program quality, supplier chain, and operation leaders to resolve supplier issues
• Engage/lead in all supply chain discussions to ensure proper selection of sourcing (throughout entire product life cycle) to mitigate risk and reduce overall cost of ownership of the parts
• Partner with the sector Supplier Quality team to engage key supplier's management in a business review process to monitor metrics, identify trends and implement programs to assure demonstrated performance improvements
• Manages and develops a high performing team of Supplier Quality Engineers who can build relationships, interpret contractual and product requirements, and assist with flow down to suppliers
• Owns and manages the Supplier Quality budget
• Required travel of approximately 25%

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in technical field and 10+ years of experience or 14+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience in quality assurance/management within a regulated industry (aerospace, defense, medical), or the overall equivalent
• Strong technical knowledge of quality science tools and methodologies, including statistical process control, APQP (PFMEA, Control Plans), and robust root cause analysis
• Demonstrated success managing supplier improvements through audits and strong CAPA processes
• Strong and demonstrated communication skills (written, verbal, visual) and interpersonal skills (listening and communicating within group working environment).
• 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.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Engineering or Technical Bachelor's Degree
• Master's degree
• Strong knowledge of AS9100/AS9102/AS9145
• Supply Chain management experience
• Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt or Black Belt Certified
• ASQ Certification

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $153377 - $260743

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.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.