Director of Quality, Defense
Amro Fabricating Corporation • Mukilteo, WA16d • $140,000 - $180,000 • Onsite
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Director of Quality, Defense
Amro Fabricating Corporation•Mukilteo, WA
•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite
About The Position
The Director of Quality, Defense is responsible for overseeing all quality activities, personnel, systems, and performance associated with Defense programs across multiple Karman Space & Defense operating sites. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure all Defense hardware, assemblies, and services meet or exceed contractual, regulatory, and customer requirements. The Director of Quality, Defense manages the Defense Quality Engineering organization, supports execution of Defense programs, and ensures consistent application of quality standards and tools across the sector. This leader works in close partnership with the Enterprise Director of Quality to align each site’s AS9100 compliant QMS with the emerging enterprise quality architecture and to transition multiple Defense sites toward a unified enterprise certification. This role is critical in driving disciplined execution, continuous improvement, product integrity, and customer satisfaction within the Defense market segment. This role is onsite at our headquarters in Mukilteo.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical field preferred
- 10 years of experience in aerospace/defense quality roles preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, and Defense customer quality standards.
- Quality Engineering experience with complex programs including design.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and manage the Quality Engineering team supporting all Defense programs and projects.
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, proactive risk management, and continuous improvement across Defense Quality functions.
- Serve as the primary Defense quality leader to the VP of Defense and the Defense leadership team.
- Ensure the quality of all Defense hardware, assemblies, engineered systems, and services produced across multiple sites.
- Oversee program quality planning, including inspection strategies, qualification/verification plans, critical characteristics control, product safety considerations, and risk mitigation.
- Review and approve quality requirements for Defense proposals, contracts, and manufacturing plans.
- Drive effective root cause analysis, corrective action, and failure review processes for Defense programs.
- Ensure each Defense site maintains compliance to AS9100, customer requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Provide direct guidance to site Quality Managers/Quality Engineers on QMS implementation, audit readiness, and procedural improvement.
- Support site internal audits, customer audits, DCMA oversight, and third‑party certification audits.
- Partner with the Enterprise Director of Quality to align Defense site QMS structures, documentation, and practices with the enterprise quality framework.
- Support the long term strategy to transition multiple Defense AS9100 certificates into a unified enterprise certificate.
- Collaborate closely on enterprise initiatives such as configuration management improvements, risk management systems, document control harmonization, supplier quality strategies, and enterprise metrics.
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