Product Assurance Manager

About the role

A Product Assurance Manager position is open at Airbus CRISA (Airbus Defence & Space) in Tres Cantos, in the Madrid area. It is a permanent role within a team focused on equipment product development for satellites and launchers, covering product consolidation, performance improvement and innovation. The manager ensures the quality of electronic processes and supports the project team in meeting customer needs.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of electronic processes (conception, integration, programming, testing).
• Define and apply the Product Assurance Plan and ensure quality of development processes.
• Ensure the quality interface with the customer and establish and run the quality plan.
• Lead and support reviews and milestones, and justify anomaly processing and other issues.
• Identify quality risks and support quality improvement initiatives and APQP across the project.
• Support incident resolution with root cause analysis, PPS, 5WHYs and PFMEA.
• Lead non-conformance management and coordinate quality actions and the quality budget.
• Certify product conformity with specifications, supported by quality staff.
• Demonstrate conformity to processes and requirements at programme level to customers and external authorities, and drive non-conformance management.

Required profile

• More than 2 years of experience in product quality assurance or supply chain quality; manufacturing or testing experience is considered.
• Degree level (or equivalent) in engineering (electronic, automatic, aeronautic, etc.) or physics, chemistry, etc.
• Ability to travel for business.
• Current work authorization; Airbus does not sponsor visas for US positions.

Required skills

• Strong communication skills and teamwork.
• Analytical skills, a rigorous approach and the ability to anticipate.
• Knowledge of quality tools such as APQP, PFMEA and root cause analysis.

Key deliverables include the Product Assurance Plan, Non-Conformance Analysis, Consolidated Action Plan, Technical Risk Register, Risk Mitigation Plan, end-to-end conformity attestation and APQP. The employer is Computadoras, Redes e Ingeniería, SA.