Executive Quality Leader

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

Strategic

• Owner of Zero-Defect Culture and Proactive Quality for the Lynn operations.
• Collaborate with Leadership, Engineering, and Supply Chain on Breakthrough Objectives and Top-Level Improvement Priorities.
• Champion the Lean Transformation Lynn Quality operations, providing subject matter expertise on methods and tools such as Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement.
• Partner with customer teams and directly with customers on quality improvement to enhance the customer experience.
• Drive advanced quality tool maturation in Lynn in both new product release and in mature program process modernization initiatives.

Organizational

• Lead a large team of quality professionals across multiple plants.
• Work closely with horizontal team in supply chain, programs, customer teams, and extended quality organization to drive proactive and preventative quality actions across the enterprise.
• Coach/mentor direct team and extended team in problem solving and process improvement on an ongoing basis.

Operational

• Assure performance to Key Performance Indicators in delivered and in process quality.
• Lead and coach root cause and corrective action investigation across teams.
• Drive adherence to NPI tollgates and quality deliverables associated with programs.
• Maintain strong regulatory compliance and quality system compliance across sites.

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Operations, or related field
• Minimum 10 years of Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, or related experience
• Minimum 3 years in People Management
• Ability to travel – 15

Desired Characteristics and Experience:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an outstanding ability to interact and engage at all levels of the organization
• Understanding of GE Aviation quality policies and procedures
• Proven leader in driving Continuous Improvement
• Strong Problem-Solving experience
• Strong program and project management skills 
• Lean Facilitator
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn​
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively​
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed ​
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative​
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker