Quality Assurance Lead

**About L3Harris**

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive,engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, seaand cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

**Your next role**

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career as a Quality Assurance Lead to become a core member of our portfolio leadership team providing an active role in the governance cadence, the development, implementation, leadership & measurement of theQuality Assurance plans we’re here to help you make that step.

At L3Harris in Brighton we are part of Release Systems and the Mission Avionics sector operating in the Aerospace domain. We specialising in high performance electro-mechanical systems and pneumatic technology for airborne weapon carriage release.

**What the role will involve**

If you’re invited to join our team of dedicated experts, the responsibilities of your role will include the following:

- Developing, implementing, and managing QA for the Product Group for design & manufacture of mechanical, electrical, and electro-mechanical systems & associated documentation.
- Facilitating the implementation of standards, methods and procedures for ensuring quality of products & documentation.
- Lead the preparation and execution of internal audits for the Product Group within established design, manufacturing and production process controls to ensure compliance with internal and external specifications, requirements and standards.
- Liaises with the teams, auditing groups and inspectors to develop formal written reports, and where required recommend corrective actions
- Identify trends in discrepancies and collaborates with process owners on the refinement and optimisation of business processes.
- Participate in identifying root cause for discrepancies and nonconformities to develop disposition and recommend corrective action plans.
- Lead material review board and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) activities.
- Interfacing with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor and subcontractor representatives to ensure requirements are met and conducting program quality cost account management.
- Ensuring internal, customer, regulatory and 3rd party requirements are defined, measured, and continuously improved.
- Drive early cross-functional engagement initiatives to ensure quality throughout all phases of the product lifecycle and associated processes, including project execution through review of proposals & completion of gate reviews.

**What you’ll bring**

The role of Quality Assurance Lead requires the following experience and skills:

- Senior professional experience with strong knowledge of quality assurance and broad knowledge of project management.
- Experience managing Supplier Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering and Quality Control personnel within a matrix management environment.
- Substantial experience in a high complexity design, engineering & manufacturing environment, preferably in the aerospace/defence industry.
- Experience working in an ISO9001/AS9100 environment, preferably with previous experience of high standards of accreditation.
- Previous experience in leading solutions for product realisation including for example AS9145, driving Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), customer interaction, supplier interaction, Value Analysis/Value Engineering(VA/VE) support, supplier development, approval and cost improvements would be beneficial.

**Additional benefits**

At L3Harris, we value and appreciate everything our people do for us, and offer a really attractive package. A few of our benefits are:

- Flexible working hours
- 12pm finish on a Friday
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25 days holiday per year, increasing with long service
- Private medical insurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Training and development opportunities
- Mental health and wellbeing schemes

**Important to know**

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouragedregardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.