I recently took a job in Product/Quality Assurance for a small-ish engineering company after transitioning out of a Quality Assurance role in the non-profit sector. The QA role had been vacant for some time when I took on the position, and there were several quality initiatives that had halted or had been seriously altered from policy during the time when that role was vacant. There is only one Quality Assurance role within the company, and so I am trying to figure out many of my responsibilities on my own. I started out by completing a set of internal audits to assess how the company is performing, and I discovered that there were no quality objectives in place, and none had been set in recent memory.
I'm struggling to come up with recommendations for potential quality objectives the company might establish. Do quality objectives need to be set for each Standard Operating Procedure the company has in place? We are in the aerospace engineering industry, and our focus is on developing payloads and flight-level hardware for NASA. We don't do mass production--many of our projects are n=1. My background is not in engineering, and I'm not sure what the scope or content of a quality objective should be. Does anyone have suggestions for initial quality objectives? Thank you in advance for your assistance!
I'm struggling to come up with recommendations for potential quality objectives the company might establish. Do quality objectives need to be set for each Standard Operating Procedure the company has in place? We are in the aerospace engineering industry, and our focus is on developing payloads and flight-level hardware for NASA. We don't do mass production--many of our projects are n=1. My background is not in engineering, and I'm not sure what the scope or content of a quality objective should be. Does anyone have suggestions for initial quality objectives? Thank you in advance for your assistance!