Quality Manager
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As Quality Assurance Manager, you will lead the Quality Management System to ensure AS9100, ISO 9001, customer and government requirements are met. You will drive audits, nonconformances, corrective actions, and supplier quality while fostering continuous improvement. The role partners with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management to resolve quality issues and maintain compliance. You will act as the primary quality contact for customers and government representatives. This position supports a culture of quality and measurable improvements in a fast-paced aerospace context.
Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain the Quality Management System.
- Oversee internal, customer, registrar, and government audits.
- Manage nonconformances, corrective actions, root-cause analysis, and quality escapes.
- Oversee incoming, in-process, and final inspection.
- Monitor supplier quality and corrective actions.
- Serve as primary quality contact for customers and government representatives.
- Track quality metrics (defects, scrap, rework, customer complaints, corrective actions).
- Lead and develop Quality personnel.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management to resolve quality issues.
- Maintain quality records, traceability, and compliance documentation. xhuatnn
- Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Key requirements
- Strong leadership and team-management skills
- Excellent problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills
- Strong knowledge of quality systems and manufacturing processes
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and customer requirements
- Strong understanding of inspection and measurement processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Strong attention to detail and documentation discipline
- Ability to work effectively with customers, auditors, government representatives, engineers, and production personnel
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and quality/ERP systems
- Ability and willingness to make independent quality decisions, including placing product on hold when requirements are not met
- leadership
- communication
- problem-solving
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- FAR/DFARS