Quality Manager

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**Boeing Canada Winnipeg** is seeking a **Quality Manager**, reporting to the Senior Quality Manager, to join the Quality Organization working out of the **Winnipeg **office. Key responsibilities include providing education and coaching on the Quality System. Acquires and manages resources and leads process improvements. Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, suppliers and direct reports. Manages, develops and motivates employees. Executes business plans, policies and procedures and supports development of organizational and technical strategies

**Boeing Canada Winnipeg** is the largest composites manufacturer in Canada and has more than 1,300 employees. Our site manufactures parts for all commercial airplane programs at our 800,000+ square foot facility.

In this role, you will manage a team of highly motivated Quality Inspectors, NDI technicians, and CMM Operators You will ensure the ultimate technical success of each product and initiative. We harness practical knowledge of engineering, business, and aviation to build top quality products. You will thrive on the diversity of our products. Together, we deliver the power of understanding to change the world above and on the ground.

**Position Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for supporting divisional targets including developing programs that promote continuous improvements of productivity, quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.
- Provides technical direction and guidance regarding approved processes, tools, technology and skills for own projects or processes. Ensures workgroup products or processes meet customer, company, quality, industry and regulatory requirements. Provides approval of workgroup technical approaches, products and processes. May make airworthiness determinations on behalf of the company and regulatory agencies
- Develops workgroup, project or operational plans, objectives and related metrics to ensure alignment with Company vision/strategy. Measures progress, making adjustments as needed. Holds direct reports accountable for achieving goals. Monitors appropriate metrics to ensure performance to plan.
- Performs such research as benchmarking to industry standards, analyzes and compiles performance reports and process control statistics in order to determine and improve process capability or product quality.
- Identifies opportunities to improve work-related products and processes within own workgroup, project or process. Engages and empowers employees to make process improvements.
- Conveys organizational messages to facilitate the accomplishment of workgroup, project or process goals. Proactively communicates with employees, peers (e.g., fellow first-level managers) and customers. Keeps others informed by communicating project status, conducting and participating in team meetings, providing presentations and listening to employee concerns and suggestions. Communicates policies and directives to enhance employee awareness of expectations.
- Manages employees who evaluate and ensure that products, services and processes comply with customer contract requirements, engineering requirements, company procedures and government regulations.

**Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.**

**This is a full-time permanent position on the Evening shift.**

**Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)**:

- 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing or Quality
- Experience working within quality systems (e.g., Boeing Quality Management System (BQMS), International Organization for Standardization (ISO9001), or Aerospace Standard (AS9100))
- Demonstrate leadership experience, i.e. lead, manager or supervisor in a formal or informal capacity
- Must be able to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally
- Must be legally able to work in Canada
- Must be eligible to handle US export-controlled data
- Individual must not pose a risk for safeguarding of controlled goods

**Preferred Qualifications (Education/Experience)**:

- 3+ years of experience within the aerospace/ aviation industry
- Experience in building strong relationships with partners, customers and suppliers in a cross-functional setting
- 3+ year’s management/supervisory experience with responsibility for direct reports.
- Experience in evaluating, planning, analyzing, and developing quality tools, techniques and methods.
- Experience in dealing with personnel matters including recruitment, employee development and mentorship, performance evaluation and coaching
- Well-developed oral and wri