Supplier Quality Lead

Overview:
Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

**Role Purpose**

Responsible for the management and resolution of all Supplier Quality Compliance and Quality Engineering related issues including:

- Ensure that Supplier Quality is maintained by adherence to Customer and Regulatory requirements.
- Ensure that plans are in place and maintained for compliance audits, surveys and inspections with our suppliers to monitor and report supplier quality related activities to verify their Quality System, product and contract or purchase order compliance.
- Ensure that valid Quality Processes are deployed within the supply chain that drive effective corrective action for all product and process non-compliances.
- Manage the customers (internal and external) in respect of all supplier product quality related issues and ensure the appropriate dialog is maintained throughout.

Responsible for the leadership and problem resolution of supplier quality engineering issues affecting product both in-house and in the supply chain with extended support to Spirit representatives on-site at the customer premises as required.

Work in partnership with the operations and internal Quality Teams to drive a quality mindset and compliance methodology using the designated quality review processes to deliver improvements.

**Supplier Quality Lead**

**This opportunity, based at our Prestwick site offers**:

- 37 hour working week (half day Friday)
- Shift premiums up to 33%, where applicable
- Overtime at time and a half, where applicable
- 33 days holiday per year, rising with service
- Annual Bonus related to company performance
- Defined contribution pension scheme (default contributions; 4% employee and 8% employer)
- Virtual GP Service 365 days per year
- Employee Assistance Program
- A wide range of flexible benefits
- Death in service payment (default 4 times basic salary)
- Professional development and growth
- Free car parking
- And more

**Responsibilities**:

- Support the planning and resourcing of quality engineering support for the projects to ensure the execution of all planned arrangements for quality control and quality assurance as appropriate to the business. Managing a team of Supplier Quality engineers who will support both internal and external activities, whilst delivering own objectives for Supplier Compliance, Improvement and Engagement.
- Ensuring key activities are understood and resources balanced to meet multiple requirements both internally and externally.
- Responsible for all people management tasks associated with the Supplier Quality engineering team and support the continuous improvement of the quality engineering activities by developing staff and procedures.
- Manage the deployment of the PDR process across the product quality team and ensure that all quality engineers have a robust set of objectives supporting the business drivers and that there is a direct link to the top-level company objectives as flowed down through function.
- Responsible for ensuring that training and development plans are established and monitored for all team members.
- Accountable for establishing and managing labour and overheads budgets.

**Plans, organizes, and conducts audits, surveys, and inspections.**
- Carry out approval and audits of our suppliers.
- Ensure audits are undertaken in accordance with audit plans; regularly monitor and formally audit conformance to requirements of quality system, in form of product, and system audits.
- Attend and contribute as required to Strategic Supplier Reviews.
- Plan and discharge quality support to project lifecycle activities, bid support, contract review, quality planning, risk management, supplier evaluation.

**Monitors and reports on supplier quality-related activities to verify Quality System, product and contract, or purchase order compliance**.
- Report regularly on quality performance, develop targets, analyse factors behind problems and generate solutions. Escalate quality issues within the business review structure.
- Regularly report on the overall effectiveness of the supplier’s quality system, identify areas of improvement and ensure corrective/preventative actions are discharged.
- Prepares, maintains, and reviews applicable Supplier Quality QMS procedures to ensure compliance with customer and government requirements.
- Conducts training programs and coordinates company initiatives to develop and improve supplier performance and productivity. Provides technical expertise, regulatory and compliance advice and Quality Management System coaching to key st