Quality Manager

Amro Fabricating Corporation • Albany, OR

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About The Position

The Quality Manager is responsible for leading all quality assurance, quality engineering, and compliance activities for a single-site, AS9100-certified defense contractor. This role serves as the senior authority for the Quality Management System (QMS) and ensures compliance with AS9100, customer, contractual, and regulatory requirements. In a small-company environment, the Quality Manager is both a strategic leader and a hands-on contributor-setting direction while actively supporting engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and programs to ensure product quality, mission reliability and customer satisfaction.

Karman Space & Defense provides concept-to-production solutions for mission-critical systems on spacecraft, launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonics, and integrated defense systems. We believe that solving the industry’s most complex and mission-critical challenges requires relentless determination and a willingness to push the boundaries of possibility. Karman Space & Defense brings to bear unparalleled production capabilities, unmatched engineering expertise, and unflinching analysis to render the impossible, possible.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Quality, Manufacturing, or a related technical field.
• 8-12+ years of quality experience in aerospace or defense manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ownership of an AS91DO-certified QMS, including audit leadership.
• Ability and willingness to be hands-on in a small-company setting.
• Clear communicator with executives, engineers, and technicians.
• Must be a U.S. Person

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and continuously improve the AS9100-certified Quality Management System.
• Ensure compliance with customer quality requirements.
• Lead internal audits, management reviews, corrective actions, and document control.
• Serve as the primary interface for third-party, customer, and government audits.
• Partner with Engineering on design reviews, risk management, configuration control, and change management.
• Oversee First Article Inspection (AS9102), nonconformance management, MRB activity, and root cause corrective actions.
• Work with manufacturing to ensure process control, inspection effectiveness, and production readiness.
• Manage supplier quality activities, including flow down, supplier qualification, performance monitoring, and corrective actions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level