Senior Manager- Quality Engineering (Aerospace & Defense)

Sr Quality Manager

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Job Description :

The Sr Quality Manager will be responsible for providing Quality leadership and managing QA teams that support multiple business unit, multiple technologies : IC's, discrete and system / module product lines. Focus will be on growing and developing a team, processes, systems and suppliers to expand Microchip's product offering and support for the Aerospace and Defense market.

This includes coordinating and aligning efforts to implement and integrate aerospace and defense compliant systems and processes into the Microchip ecosystem. Support quality site managers to develop and manage quality systems, customer quality, manufacturing quality, supply-chain monitoring process development and quality initiatives.

Essential duties and responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to :

• Working across the organization to establishing and structure Quality Management systems and processes to support Aerospace and Defense products and Systems and Module products .
• Customer Quality : Coordinating the reach out to customers to understand their requirements and issues, establish joint improvement initiatives . Collect customer feedback and work with the quality team to implement improvements .
• Agency Management : Support ongoing communications with the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
• Supplier Quality : Develop processes and supplier quality support for Aerospace and development requirements. Flow down and auditing to MIL-PRF requirements . Auditing, measuring and monitoring, continual improvement and corrective action support for Aerospace and defense requirements and to supply factory / product knowledge.
• Regulatory compliance : Support / develop processes to ensure compliance of aerospace and development regulatory requirements .
• Development and New Product Development work with teams to address relevant MIL-SPEC and MIL-PRF requirements , including qualification, QML certifications. Understand requirements of RCTA DO-178 and DO-264 to support NPI projects.
• Manage manufacturing process certification to MIL-PRF requirements , implementation of requirements to product mil-spec parts.
• Manage and ensure compliance of the Technical Review board process for mil-prf certified products and locations.

Support Site Quality in the following :

Requirements / Qualifications :

U.S. Export Controls Requirements : This job requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8 USC 1324b (a) (3).

Travel Time : 0% - 25%

Physical Attributes : Hearing, Seeing, Supervises Others, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements : 80% sitting, 10% walking, 10% standing, 100% indoors

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