Job Summary Responsible for the overall Product Assurance strategic planning, execution, and maintenance of LOB services in accordance with regulatory, contractual, specification compliance, and company imperatives through policies, procedures, and effective monitoring of those processes. Primary Duties and Responsibilities 1) Establishes, directs, develops and effectively manages policies, procedures and processes to assure consistent performance and conformance to BAE Systems, LOB requirements for materials and/or services that are delivered to the broad BAE Systems customer community. Directs, manages, and leads coordination across BAE Systems sites and supplier community to assure consistent coordination, application, and execution of Product Assurance and Plant maintenance policies. 2) Establishes, directs reviews, approves, and causes implementation of testing methods and instrumentation through effective policy, and procedure deployment. Continual improvement of verification, to aid in regulatory, contract, and specification compliance and to support process certification. 3) Establishes, directs and causes implementation of effective audits of the quality management system and plant maintenance policies and procedures to assure they are maintained in accordance with instructions specific to each functional area. 4) Establishes policies and procedures to assure that product identification and traceability is maintained through various stages or Engineering development, prototype, production, test and fieldings as required by contract, policy, and/or procedure. Directs and assures through audit control of verification, measuring and test equipment for LOB. 5) Assures at a broad level that products and services across the LOB have met the required verifications and tests prior to delivery use or installation. Establishes, directs, and assures effective policy deployment and procedure flow-down to assure control of nonconforming product through identification, documentation, evaluation, segregation (when practical), disposition of nonconforming product, and notification to the function(s) concerned. 6) Directs and approves planning and implementation of internal quality audits to determine the effectiveness of the quality system across the LOB. Assures maintenance of records and data essential to quality programs and facilitates review of results of quality audits and corrective and preventative actions to the LOB Quality Management Council. Establishes, directs and assures that policies and procedures are deployed to evaluate trends in processes to correct and prevent nonconforming product inclusive of LOB wide system assessment. 7) Monitors action programs to correct conditions, which are causing unacceptable quality and assists effort for continuous process improvement and process certification. Directs work of high level of diversity and complexity; leads by example and provides direct management to 8-12 employees; general direction to approximately 125-150 employees across the Product Assurance Directorate. Minimum Education: 1) Bachelor's Degree Minimum Experience: 1) More than 10+ years of work experience 2) Security clearance required. Preferred Education: 1) Master's degree in related field Preferred Experience: 1) More than 10 years of experience to include Quality Assurance experience at the Director level of a medium to large size company.
Travel Required up to 25%
BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company, delivering a full range of products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions, and customer support services. With 105,000 employees worldwide, BAE Systems had 2008 sales of $34.4 billion
BAE Systems U.S. Combat Systems employs more than 6,700 people in the U.S. and internationally. U.S. Combat Systems is a leader in designing, rapidly prototyping and manufacturing protected fighting vehicle platforms and survivability solutions that support and protect the current and future forces.
Current weapons systems production for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and international customers include:
• Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAP)
• Bradley Family of Vehicles
• DDG 1000
• M109 155mm self propelled howitzer to include current M109A6 Paladin
Mk45
• M9 Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE)
• M113 Family of Vehicles to include armored personnel carriers, medical, command and control, engineering mortar launching vehicles
As a key member of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) Team, BAE Systems is responsible for five of the eight manned variants and for major elements of the common platform design. These critical weapons will be the first in a new line of combat vehicles and systems that will empower soldiers through unmatched firepower, situational awareness and survivability.
Technology developments in composite materials, hybrid electric power systems, active protective suites, integrated vehicle survivability, reactive and passive armor kits, crew station design, training systems, unmanned ground vehicle capabilities and other features position the organization at the forefront for future ground combat system developments.
U.S. Combat Systems is certified to ISO 9001 standards and Capability Maturity Model - Integrated (CMM-I) for systems and software engineering.
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