Associate Director, Quality Engineering - 1st Shift - On site | Advanced Structures

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Date Posted: 2026-08-18 Country: Mexico Location: MX-BCN-MEXICALI-238 ~ Blvd Venustiano Carranza #238 ~ BLDG 238, Desarrollo Industrial Colorado Position Role Type: Unspecified Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. The Associate Director, Quality Engineering provides site-level quality leadership for the Advanced Structures site, ensuring product and process quality meets internal, customer, and regulatory requirements. This role leads quality performance strategies, drives continuous improvement initiatives, develops quality teams, and partners with cross-functional organizations to resolve complex technical issues. The role also oversees quality compliance, special process performance, calibration and metrology, configuration management, and customer acceptance activities. What You Will Do Lead site quality performance for internal and external customers by establishing and executing strategies to achieve quality targets and goals. Direct the collection and analysis of quality data from multiple sources to develop long-term quality strategies and improvement programs. Establish and monitor quality performance metrics, including Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), Supplier Rejection Rate (SRR), defect reduction, and quality escapes. Lead continuous improvement of inspection processes, systems, and methods to improve quality performance. Ensure site compliance with quality procedures, standards, customer requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements. Oversee special process performance, including Nadcap conformance, as well as tool and gauge calibration and metrology activities. Ensure product configuration management, Certificate of Conformance (CoC) issuance, and final customer buyoff activities are completed in accordance with applicable requirements. Lead and develop direct and indirect quality team members, supporting career development, employee growth, and succession planning. Manage quality organization staffing and resources within established budgets and site and program objectives. Partner with cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve complex technical problems using structured problem-solving methods such as RCCA and 8D. Support site Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) goals, initiatives, and product safety activities. Represent the Advances Structures site in cross-site and centrally driven quality initiatives. Communicate and report site quality performance, strategies, and improvement initiatives to stakeholders at all organizational levels. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience Quality leadership experience with direct and indirect team responsibility and data-driven quality improvement initiatives. Quality assurance experience in a manufacturing environment, including shop assembly practices and day-to-day production operations. Qualifications We Prefer Experience applying APQP and PPAP tools at the manufacturing site level across multiple products or programs. Experience applying Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies, including Six Sigma certification or Shainin RedX problem-solving training. Experience with FAA/EASA Part 21 regulatory requirements and AS9100 quality standards. Aerospace manufacturing experience. What We Offer Excellent work environment. On-site gym facilities. Wellness area & sports tournaments. Engagement events. Talent development programs. Transportation arrangements within proper radius from the site. E co-friendly parking. Medical & Life Insurance Learn More & Apply Now! Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions. These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service. Our global team is committed to continuous improvement – we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable and more sustainable in the years to come. We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us! WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day. Please be aware of our location: Blvr. Venustiano Carranza #238, El Robledo, 21397 Mexicali, B.C. Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again. RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms