Quality Manager

HEICO Corporation•Essex Junction, VT

20d•$98,000 - $117,000

About The Position

The Quality Manager ensures Aviatron’s Part 21 quality systems, including FAA, EASA, CASE, and AS requirements, are implemented and kept current. The role ensures personnel are trained and perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, alterations, and inspections in accordance with approved data. It oversees the audit program and leads quality improvement initiatives. The Quality Manager maintains the quality control program to ensure products conform to FAA-approved design data and company procedures meet current government regulatory requirements. The role is responsible for final inspection of articles and auditing document packages before release to a designee (DMIR), maintaining the Quality Manual, coordinating with federal employees on FAA approvals and regulations, and ensuring PMA manufacturing is conducted within Aviatron’s authority and reviewed by a delegated inspector. The position also manages vendor approvals, audits, records, and the Vendor Drawing List; ensures proper handling, preservation, and storage of PMA articles; and directs the corrective action program when failures, defects, or malfunctions are discovered or reported. The position requires regulatory analysis and implementation, technical and procedural writing, English proficiency, and common computer software skills.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Experience in regulation requirement analysis and implementation.
Ability to write technical data, procedures, and training materials.
Ability to speak, read, and write in English.
Common computer software skills.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and to present information effectively and respond to questions.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts and apply basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to solve practical problems involving concrete variables and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or scheduled instructions.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Maintain a quality control program that ensures products conform to FAA-approved design data and company procedures comply with current government regulatory requirements.
Perform final inspections of articles and audit document packages before release to a designee (DMIR).
Revise the Quality Manual as necessary and ensure Aviatron operates according to its current revision.
Correspond with federal employees to obtain FAA approvals and stay current on federal regulations.
Ensure PMA articles are manufactured within Aviatron’s authority and reviewed by a delegated inspector.
Maintain the Vendor Drawing List, arrange necessary audits, keep certifications organized, manage vendor approvals and audits, and update and file the vendor list.
Ensure proper handling, preservation, and storage of PMA articles.
Direct the Corrective Action Program and determine appropriate actions when failures, defects, or malfunctions are discovered or reported, including documenting events and notifying appropriate parties.
Ensure personnel are trained and perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, alterations, and inspections in accordance with approved data.
Oversee and manage the audit program and lead quality improvement initiatives.