Quality Manager

About the job

Job Title: Quality Manager (L5)

Job Code: 46381

Job Location: Tempe, AZ

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Level 5 Quality Management Manager to lead the Quality team for the Integrated Vision Solutions (IVS) Sector in Tempe, Arizona. This on-site role is responsible for driving product quality, reducing scrap, strengthening quality processes, and leading a team that supports manufacturing and business performance. The position is a critical leadership role focused on improving operational execution, ensuring compliance, and supporting site objectives across a direct labor environment.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the site Quality organization and provide day-to-day direction for quality personnel supporting operations in Tempe, Arizona

• Drive initiatives to reduce scrap, improve product quality, and strengthen overall quality performance across the site

• Partner with manufacturing, engineering, and program teams to resolve quality issues and improve process execution

• Oversee nonconformance management, root cause analysis, corrective action, and preventive action activities

• Ensure compliance with internal quality procedures, customer requirements, and applicable regulatory and contractual expectations

• Monitor and report quality performance metrics and lead actions to improve yield, efficiency, and cost performance

• Support audit readiness and participate in internal, customer, and external quality reviews as needed

• Lead and develop team members, including performance management, coaching, and daily operational support

• Support business objectives across all applicable programs in a direct labor environment

• Travel as needed in support of business and program requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Government Confidential security clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related field and a minimum of 9 years of prior related experience.  Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in a quality leadership role within manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or another regulated production environment

• Experience with International Organization for Standardization 9001 (ISO 9001) quality management system requirements and implementation

• Experience leading teams and managing quality performance in an on-site operational setting

• Experience with scrap reduction, corrective action systems, nonconformance management, and quality improvement initiatives

• Experience collaborating across operations, engineering, and program functions

• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Government Confidential security clearance

• Experience leading quality teams within a high-volume or complex manufacturing site

• Knowledge of quality systems, audits, and compliance expectations in defense or aerospace environments

• Familiarity with root cause analysis tools and structured corrective action methods

• Experience using quality metrics to drive operational improvement and reduce cost of poor quality

• Background supporting direct labor production organizations across multiple programs

• Experience working in an environment with both on-site and virtual interview or collaboration practices

• Familiarity with continuous improvement methods applied to scrap and defect reduction

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