Collins Aerospace Systems, part of Raytheon Technologies, is currently seeking a Quality Lead to join our Actuations team. This role can be based in the UK, France or Italy.

Role Purpose:

The Quality Lead will work with stakeholders to improve quality performance and set strategies across operations and the Supply Chain

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns the execution of Operational and Supplier Quality goals.  Sets direction and leads resources to develop, apply and maintain quality strategies.

• Develop the vision & strategy to enhance the supplier quality organisation.  Set the direction and lead the resources to execute the strategy with a positive impact on the business goals.

• Assess and mature the quality clinics to stream-line the improvement activities within operations and supplier quality.

• Work with our international stakeholders to continually improve our work transfer processes and maintain compliance.

• Develop and coach the team to maximise collective potential and create lasting change.

• Provides guidance across the organization in the implementation of robust and permanent corrective actions.

• Owns the establishment and execution of short to medium-term quality improvement plans.

• Confidence to facilitate and resolve complex and extensive investigations

• Develops and leads implementation of solutions to complex and high-level non-conformities and to satisfy key quality issues raised.

• Ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.

• Leads the identification and management of risk in product development, driving utilization of APQP core elements (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans, etc.).

• Directs escape management procedures, root cause analysis, and the development of recommendations for corrective actions

• Leads teams responsible for ensuring all requirements are met for work transfer & process change management.

• Coach the Quality Managers to continuously achieve the required skill base

• Influence projects beyond the business unit with imagination, creativity and innovation

• Fully utilise their extended network and influencing skills to gain collaborative agreement with key stakeholders to progress project or business needs

• Enable and empower others within the business to be successful

• Advise and arbitrate on issues which relate to complex or sensitive assumptions, approaches, arguments, conclusions and decisions

• Advise on strategies for improving team dynamics on complex or challenging teams

• Display as organisational savvy, knows where to go to overcome barriers

• Develop positive relationship based on trust with both internal and external customers

Key Competencies:

• Coaching the quality team to continuously achieve the goals and objectives

• Influence projects beyond the business unit with imagination, creativity and innovation

• Fully utilise their extended network and influencing skills to gain collaborative agreement with key stakeholders to progress project or business needs

• Enable and empower others within the business to be successful

• Demonstrated track record of high-performance standards used to deliver committed objectives

• Customer focused with a broad experience of managing a variety of Quality activities with multiple customer and supplier interfaces

• Committed to employee development

• A good understanding of problem-solving techniques and their application to resolve production quality issues

• Strong communication skills across all levels of the business

Qualifications and Experience:

• Requires a degree with significant or specialist experience and a thorough understanding of the standards, processes, procedures, tools and techniques used in Quality.

• Quality Management Systems qualifications

• Understanding of Supplier Quality requirements and contractual flow downs

• Has a thorough understanding of AS9100/ ISO9001 requirements and how they may be achieved through the Quality Management System.

• AS9100 Lead Auditor Training or Industry equivalent.

• Ideally holds CQI accreditation

• Advanced Product Quality Planning implementation

• Advanced Problem resolution techniques (I.e. Six Sigma, Red-X, etc)  

Relationships:

• Strong links into with Quality, Supply Chain and Operations Directors and leaders.  Role spans across multiple sites in Europe.

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