Crane - Fort Walton Beach, FL

posted 24 days ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Fort Walton Beach, FL
Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You'll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Located minutes away from picturesque white-sand beaches and emerald green water, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Fort Walton Beach location is home to our Defense Power business - a leading supplier of high-power solutions for aerospace & defense applications. You'll join a trusted, dynamic organization that supplies prime defense manufacturers with custom radar, directed energy and electric warfare solutions for placement on innovative, next-gen military platforms. Join us and our growing business as we supply solutions that enable the latest defense technology!

Responsibilities

  • Directly lead and manage functional quality organization on a day-to-day basis at FWB to meet all Aerospace AS9100 QMS requirements
  • Lead Design Quality within Product Development Process by integrating organization, industry, and customer quality requirements into new design development projects using Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) based on AS9145
  • Effectively manage the supply base quality performance over the lifecycle (selection, qualification, management, monitoring and measurement)
  • Ensure that the quality of purchased materials meets requirements and comply with applicable regulations
  • Establish a zero-defect culture by leading the deployment and continuous improvement based on AS9145
  • Ensure the effectiveness of measurement and monitoring systems to achieve improvement in Site business key metrics and quality processes key metrics
  • Develop and implement a quality organizational structure capable of supporting the strategic initiatives
  • Lead the efforts to integrate quality into development of short and long terms business plans
  • Establish proactive business impact for the quality function
  • Lead effort to define and train employees on root-cause analysis and problem-solving tools to identify effective corrective actions/process improvements
  • Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality
  • Analyze and resolve customer complaints and field reliability issues
  • Coordinate product and component failure analysis
  • Drive corrective action, and inspection of all program hardware to J-STD-001 and IPC610 and documentation and supplier quality improvements

Requirements

  • 5+ years Quality assurance experience in the defense, space electronics or high-end aerospace industry in either a management role or quality supervisor position; additional Automotive experience is a plus
  • Experience of design quality in product development
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (EE-preferred, ME, MSc., Chem) from an accredited institution
  • Eligibility Requirement: This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Nice-to-haves

  • Strongly preferred experience with electronics manufacturing methods including IPC-610 Class 3 and IPC J-STD-001
  • Strongly preferred experience with APQP AS9145 - Process flow Diagram, FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, Process Capability, SPC
  • Preferred AS9100 Auditor experience
  • Preferred experience with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

Benefits

  • Health care, dental or life insurance starting the first day of the month
  • 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 12 paid holidays per year
  • 401k plan with company match
  • Education Reimbursement: eligible after 90 days of employment
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