QMS: Support implementation and continuous improvement of the Glydways Quality Management System in support of ISO 9001:2015 certification readiness, including authoring and maintaining quality policies, procedures, work instructions, and process maps.
Supplier Quality Assurance: Define and maintain supplier quality requirements, including quality clauses for purchase orders and supplier agreements. Ensure quality requirements are appropriately flowed down through contracts, specifications, and supplier agreements. Establish incoming inspection criteria and acceptance procedures. Conduct or coordinate supplier audits and assessments, manage supplier corrective actions, and maintain a supplier quality scorecard.
Quality Control: Define and oversee implementation of quality control checkpoints for vehicle build, assembly, and integration activities. Coordinate with engineering the creation of inspection and test plans for incoming, in process, and final acceptance of hardware components and integrated subsystems. Own the nonconformance reporting (NCR) process and drive root cause analysis (5 Why, Fishbone, 8D) for hardware defects, integration failures, and field issues.
Design Review Gates: Establish and uphold formal design review gates (System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, Production Readiness Review) with documented entry and exit criteria. Ensure adherence to engineering change management processes through quality oversight, including impact assessment, approval workflows, and verification of implementation.
Configuration Management Oversight: Ensure that configuration management processes are defined and followed for hardware, software, and documentation aligned with ISO 10007 (Configuration Management) principles. Provide independent quality oversight to confirm that design, test, and release baselines are defined, maintained, and traceable in accordance with established processes, and that they support safety-critical lifecycle expectations. Ensure that as built vehicle configurations are documented and traceable to design records.
Internal Audits and Continuous Improvement: Plan, schedule, and lead the internal audit program covering all QMS processes and project activities. Conduct process audits, product audits, and system audits. Manage the Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) program. Track quality objectives, KPIs, and management review inputs. Facilitate lessons learned and quality improvement initiatives across engineering and operations teams.
Defect Management: Define and maintain the defect and issue management workflow, ensuring that hardware and software defects are properly classified, prioritized, assigned, and tracked to resolution. Establish escalation criteria and processes for quality issues that impact safety, schedule, or customer commitments.
Software Quality Assurance: Collaborate with the Safety and Software teams to ensure alignment between software quality processes and the broader QMS. Support the review and approval of Software Quality Assurance Plans (SQAPs) and software lifecycle process descriptions. Ensure integration of software quality processes into the QMS, including verification traceability, release control, and defect management alignment with system-level safety and performance requirements.