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You don't see it, but it's there. Our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics - from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F-35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you'll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry's most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first - exemplified by our missions: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us" and "We Innovate For Those Who Move The WorldTM." Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.BAE's Power & Propulsion Solutions (PPS) business area delivers propulsion and power management performance with innovative electrification products and solutions to advance vehicle mobility, efficiency and capability in land and maritime vehicles. This dynamic business consists of a team of 500 employees across sites in Endicott, NY and Rochester, United Kingdom and is a part of the Electronic Systems Sector that generates $6B in revenue. Our proven technology, with nearly 5 billion road miles accumulated from 16,000 vehicles, is helping global fleet operations get to zero emissions with an array of green propulsion, ranging from electric hybrid, fuel cell electric and battery electric solutions.BAE systems is seeking a Business Area Quality Director in support of our Power & Propulsion Solutions (PPS) business area. Reporting to the Vice President of Quality in the Electronic Systems Sector (ES), this resource will support the PPS business area in quality assurance, continuous improvement, and lifecycle management. In this role, you will work closely with leadership to provide proactive, value-added solutions and program, factory, customer, and supply chain support. The successful candidate:• Enjoys working with and coaching quality managers and business leaders to continuously improve, execute success across portfolios, programs and projects in a variety of U.S. locations.• Possess strong communication and presentation skills to facilitate effective communication at all levels of the organization and across multiple cultures as well as to the customer and partner communities.• Needs to be a hands-on leader willing to take responsibility for resolving technical challenges, ensuring successful tactical execution, as well as creating and implementing the strategic vision• Ability to evaluate organization effectiveness and build teams working together to achieve common goals.• A visible, influential leader who takes a collaborative approach with others and comes across as approachable.• Relates well with individuals at all levels of the organization, builds appropriate rapport, constructive and effective relationships.• Can diffuse even high-tension situations effectively.Key responsibilities include:• Provide direction, supervision, and guidance to ensure alignment with quality policy, strategic objectives and organization goals that drive to Zero Defect plans and Strategy.• Collaborate with senior leadership for planning, execution, and management of critical business performance, process improvements, and other strategic initiatives.• Develops a highly capable quality assurance staff by recruiting, organizing and developing team.• Influences Design activities to ensure strong first-time quality performance complying with automotive hardware and software capability standards• Champion innovative ideas impacting affordability and production on the factory floor.• Develop and implement program quality plans and procedures.• Manage compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as established company standards to minimize risk to employees and liability to the business.• Review, analyze and report on quality discrepancies and data related to production.• Support integrated senior management teams to determine strategy and tactical deployment, improve performance, lower costs, and generate innovative solutions with a continuous improvement mindset.• Investigate problems and develop disposition and corrective actions for discrepancies - using proven RCCA techniques and driving sustainable preventive improvements.• Partner to implement corrective actions, dispositions, process optimization and modifications.• Organizational skills - can marshal resources to get things done, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, use matrixed resources effectively and efficiently, and arrange information in a useful manner.• Exhibits a high degree of technical credibility and communicates highly-technical information in a simplistic and easily understandable way.