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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive quality leadership experience in defense, aerospace, propulsion, energetics, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of experience as a people manager leading quality teams at the senior manager or director level, with direct supervisory responsibility for a meaningful-sized organization rather than a small team of individual contributors.
• Deep knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, audit systems, corrective action, nonconformance control, supplier quality, and configuration-controlled manufacturing.
• Experience supporting U.S. government contracts and operating in highly regulated production environments.
• Strong understanding of inspection systems, process validation, first article inspection, traceability, and risk-based quality management.
• Proven ability to lead root cause investigations, drive corrective action, and improve quality performance in complex technical operations.
• Strong leadership, judgment, and cross-functional influence, with the ability to lead through managers and supervisors and hold teams accountable across functions and locations.
• U.S. Person status and ability to obtain or maintain any required security clearance or access authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, Quality, or Business Administration.
• ASQ certification such as CQE or CMQ/OE.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or similar certification.
• Experience with solid rocket motors, propulsion systems, energetics, aerospace systems, composites, or advanced manufacturing.
• Experience supporting product development, production scale-up, qualification programs, and mission-critical hardware delivery.
• Experience working with prime defense contractors, DCMA, or similar customer and regulatory environments.
• Experience with ERP/MRP platforms, digital quality systems, and manufacturing data systems.
• Experience leading a multi-level quality organization across multiple locations and/or time zones.
• Current or active Secret-level security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company's quality organization across quality assurance, quality control, supplier quality, audit readiness, nonconformance management, and corrective action.
• Set quality strategy, objectives, and performance expectations aligned with operational goals, customer requirements, and company growth.
• Advise the COO and executive leadership on quality risks, systemic issues, compliance gaps, and improvement priorities.
• Own and maintain the Quality Management System across relevant operations, facilities, and programs.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, customer requirements, contract flow-downs, and applicable FAR/DFARS requirements.
• Lead internal, customer, third-party, and regulatory audit activity and maintain audit readiness.
• Ensure effective controls for documentation, traceability, inspection, testing, calibration, configuration control, and records retention.
• Lead receiving, in-process, and final inspection strategies to ensure product conformity and process discipline.
• Own nonconformance, containment, root cause, corrective action, and verification of effectiveness across internal and supplier issues.
• Improve quality performance using metrics including yield, escapes, rework, scrap, supplier defects, audit findings, and cost of poor quality.
• Partner with operations and engineering to improve process capability, production readiness, repeatability, and manufacturing throughput.
• Lead supplier quality strategy, including qualification, surveillance, performance management, issue resolution, and corrective action.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, statistical methods, and disciplined problem solving.
• Build and develop a high-performing quality team and a culture of accountability, urgency, and prevention.