Quality Assurance Manager / Project Quality Manager (m/f/d) Defence Systems

In a dynamic and high-tech security environment, you will ensure compliance with the highest quality standards for complex defense projects throughout the entire product lifecycle. Responsibilities include establishing, managing, and monitoring quality measures in national and international projects and proposals; serving as the central point of contact for quality-related issues with customers, suppliers, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders; creating and maintaining all quality-related plans, such as quality management plans, test flowcharts, and test documentation; planning, conducting, and evaluating quality gates and engineering reviews, including tracking defined corrective actions; managing supplier quality through audits, defining quality criteria, initial sample inspections, and production releases; conducting and releasing product tests, outgoing goods inspections, and deliveries, as well as issuing certificates of conformity; initiating and moderating corrective and optimization processes, such as 8D reports and continuous improvement methods; and providing technical leadership to quality-related project teams within program organizations and further developing internal process standards.

• Erfolgreich abgeschlossenes technisches Studium oder eine vergleichbare qualifizierte Ausbildung
• Fundierte, mehrjährige Berufserfahrung im projektbezogenen Qualitätsmanagement in einem streng regulierten Industrieumfeld
• Tiefe Kenntnisse einschlägiger QM- und Entwicklungsnormen sowie praktisches Know-how in System-, Hardware- oder Softwareentwicklungsprozessen
• Erprobte Praxis in Verifikations- und Testmethoden, Review- und Audittechniken sowie in der Prüfablaufplanung
• Ausgeprägte Durchsetzungsstärke, Konfliktfähigkeit und sicheres Auftreten auf allen Hierarchieebenen
• Verhandlungssichere Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse sowie Bereitschaft zu weltweiten Dienstreisen