Design Quality Manager

are validated, driving a robust change control process, and optimizing processes to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle.

As this is a new role and function within the organization, the successful candidate will play a critical role in establishing a proactive Design Quality organization. This role will introduce a dedicated, collaborative quality function focused on ‘quality built-in’ from the earliest stages of design, with proactive identification and mitigation of risks. Successfully implementing this change will require strong communication, influencing skills, the ability to build trust across diverse teams, and the development of strong relationships with key stakeholders across engineering, program management, manufacturing, and supply chain.

• ◆Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of design quality engineers. Establish goals and standards of performance.
• ◆Strategic Alignment & Planning: Partner with other cross functional peers, quality leaders and team members, and product line area leaders to ensure alignment with business objectives and strategy. Understand industry trends and best practices to ensure BAE Systems develops and maintains quality and technical differentiators.
• ◆Quality Planning & Execution: Support proposals, reviews, and project assessments. Review design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract

to develop and execute the design quality assurance plan. Lead quality reviews to ensure adherence to quality criteria and identify potential risks. Monitor and influence product development throughout the lifecycle across programs.

Validation: Ensure internal and external product

are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports. Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.

• ✓Test Solution Design and Validation: Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products and factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.
• ✓APQP/AS9145: Champion Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities, ensure risk areas are adjudicated and actioned, and evaluate trends across the business area.
• ✓Design Optimization: Ensure that system design guidelines, process and factory capabilities, and best practices such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) are utilized.
• ✓Design Reviews: Influence outcome of design reviews and provide constructive design related feedback on engineering documentation including engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts and facilitate risk assessments.
• ✓Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement. Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the Design Quality program and drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, improve quality, and promote agility.

• ✓Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or a relevant technical field with 10+ years of related work experience.
• ✓Experience building and leading engineering or quality teams.
• ✓Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) secret security clearance with ability to obtain special access clearances.
• ✓Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrated ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• ✓Influence & Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization to adopt best practices. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• ✓Business Acumen: Strong business acumen and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that solutions meet the needs of the business and warfighter.
• ✓Technical Expertise: Experience in the product development life cycle including

capture and verification, design and development, and system level integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate.

• ✓Full life cycle expe