Quality Manager

3 key questions for you:

1. Would you find it motivating to ensure a wide range of quality standards and customer requirements in projects and products?
2. Do you believe in cooporation with project and engineering management and still have the independence to monitor highly skilled project managers and product developers?
3. Would you like to work in a high-tech and innovative company where we every day team up with our Allies to secure people through advanced technology?
If “Yes” – Terma would love to have a dialogue with you about a very interesting opportunity as Quality Manager in Terma.

Terma provides mission critical solutions for the defense and aerospace industry. We are guided by one overall purpose: To deliver security for countries, allies, and individuals.

We operate in a variety of areas, but quality is always key. We deliver advanced technologies to keep people safe, both in time of peace and in times of conflict. Our systems provide security for people on land, at sea, and in the air. Terma puts an emphasis on diversity and brings passionate people together with different cultural and professional backgrounds.

Your new role

As Quality Manager in Terma, you will be a part of a team of Quality Managers, working within different Business Areas. Your role will be to provide quality assurance in projects towards defense industry, towards Sea, Land and Air. A key role will be to evaluate quality standards like AS9100, AQAP, SAE, MILSTD, NATO STANAG and customer requirements to ensure compliance in projects and product development.

Your responsibilities:

• Works independently and is often able to instruct and coach other specialists and professionals or is in a Lead function, i.e., having a broad view of tasks with the responsibility to delegate, communicate and coordinate.
• Provides input and support to BAs and projects, often as a trusted advisor.
• Ensure customer quality requirements are identified early (by participation in proposal and contract reviews) and documented and implemented in the project via the Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and flowed down to suppliers.
• Ensure internal/external project execution, i.a.w. our QMS by performing internal and external audits.
• Manage Customer Complaints efficiently to maintain Terma’s high customer satisfaction level.
• Participate in project milestone meetings to ensure milestone checklist compliance.
• Perform Buy-off, verifying that deliverables are of the right quality.
• Manage Concessions (Deviations & Waivers) and delegations from customers (GQAR, DCMA)
• Management of Compliance evaluation concerning MIL and NATO quality standards and potentially SW standards like ED-109A, DO-178.

Why Terma?

We are an international company representing world class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology. During your onboarding in Terma you can expect a thorough introduction and training in our systems and processes, as well as a strong focus on teaching you useful new competences and further strengthening current ones, both professionally and personally. Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment. On our different locations, we offer various social activities to bring all our colleagues together.

How to succeed in this position?

• Specialist level personality: Living “Terma Leadership Behavior” with a global business mindset, acting positive, outgoing and independent.
• Change Management: To drive and lead change to fulfil the SCQM and Terma strategy - outline and commit clear change objectives for stakeholders. Lead through a principal balance between persistence and patience.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: To be a skilled relationship builder with keen stakeholder management skills in a complex landscape. Ensure clear and trustful communication - both down/up/cross - and compelling presentation skills targeted to different stakeholder management levels.
• Analytical yet holistic mindset: A generalist approach (helicopter view) with a high drive and a natural curiosity, coupled with a fact-based approach to ensure quality requirements are met, though not being distracted by too many details.
• Strong execution skills: Solution orientation, courageous and self-confidential presence – e.g., not being afraid of taking a stand, always in a constructive and humble manner.
• Agility: Be agile. Be adaptable, quick and change-making. Be fast, responsive, decisive and well- coordinated. Be easy to work with.
• With the use of independent SME potentially test of software.
• Proven track record at Project Manager or Quality Manager/Specialist level with a minimum of 5 years of experience in managing product development projects or managing quality requirement fulfilment.
• Relevant academic background with a university degree (or equivalent).
• System-level experience in understanding the interaction between mechanical, hardware and software components. Required for Buy-offs.
• Experienced in performing well-documented audits (project and process audits)
• Preferably sufficient knowledge of software engineering and software development processes to understand and handle quality issues related to software development and release of software products.Strong skills in Microsoft Office package.
• You are fluent in written and spoken English.
• Additional Qualifications in Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, including Lean and Six Sigma is desirable.

Further information

For further information about this position, please contact Morten Binderup, Manager Project and Product Quality, Morten Binderup +45 2139 1810.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed, we receive applications only via www.Terma.com.

Applications will be processed continuously.

Bear in mind that candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service. This entails that candidates, as a minimum, have stayed within NATO/EU for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad.

The high-tech and innovative Terma Group develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft and vessels, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.

Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Terma has subsidiaries and operations across Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia Pacific as well as a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, Terma Inc., with offices in Washington D.C., Georgia and Texas.