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Job Overview The Aerospace Quality Manager leads the organization's quality management system and quality assurance activities in an aerospace manufacturing environment. This role ensures that products, processes, and records satisfy customer, statutory, regulatory, and internal requirements, with particular accountability for maintaining an effective AS9100D-aligned quality management system. The manager promotes risk-based thinking, product safety, operational discipline, defect prevention, and continual improvement across the organization and its supply chain. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and continually improve the quality management system to support conformity with AS9100D, applicable customer requirements, and relevant statutory and regulatory obligations.
• Serve as the organization's primary quality representative during customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; coordinate audit preparation, responses, corrective actions, and timely closure of findings.
• Establish the internal audit program, management review process, quality objectives, metrics, and reporting needed to evaluate QMS effectiveness and business performance.
• Lead corrective and preventive problem-solving activities, including containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action verification, and recurrence prevention.
• Oversee nonconforming material controls, material review board activities, concession or deviation workflows, and disposition records within delegated authority.
• Ensure effective configuration management, document and record control, change control, traceability, preservation, and retention practices.
• Manage inspection and test planning, first article inspection activities, measurement-system controls, calibration, and acceptance documentation.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management to integrate quality requirements into planning, contract review, production, special processes, and product realization.
• Develop and monitor supplier quality controls, including supplier approval, risk-based surveillance, performance reviews, corrective actions, and improvement plans.
• Promote product safety, counterfeit-parts prevention, foreign-object damage prevention, human-factors awareness, and ethical reporting of quality concerns.
• Analyze quality trends, cost of poor quality, escapes, scrap, rework, returns, and customer complaints; translate findings into prioritized improvement initiatives.
• Recruit, coach, and develop quality personnel; define responsibilities, training needs, competencies, and performance expectations.
• Maintain readiness for customer-specific requirements, source inspections, quality clauses, flow-down requirements, and on-time delivery commitments.
• Escalate significant quality or product-safety risks and exercise authority to stop production or shipment when requirements are not met. Qualifications Required
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 7 years of progressive quality experience in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment, including 3 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of AS9100D and

ISO 9001

quality management principles.

• Experience leading internal and external audits, corrective actions, management reviews, and QMS improvement initiatives.
• Proficiency with root-cause and quality tools such as 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, 8D, Pareto analysis, process capability, control plans, and statistical process control.
• Knowledge of first article inspection, nonconformance control, metrology and calibration, supplier quality, risk management, and configuration or change control.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contracts, quality clauses, and technical requirements.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, leadership, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience using ERP, QMS, or manufacturing information systems.
• Ability to meet applicable customer, export-control, security, and site-access requirements. Preferred
• Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer, or comparable professional credential.
• AS9100 lead auditor or internal auditor training.
• Experience with aerospace first article inspection requirements, special-process oversight, customer portals, and supplier development.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or structured continuous-improvement certification or experience.
• Experience supporting defense, space, or commercial aviation customers. Core Competencies
• Quality leadership and sound independent judgment
• Customer focus and regulatory awareness
• Risk-based decision-making and systems thinking
• Fact-based problem solving and attention to detail
• Influence across functions and levels of the organization
• Accountability, integrity, and timely escalation
• Coaching, talent development, and change leadership Key Performance Indicators
• External and internal audit performance and on-time closure of findings
• Customer escapes, complaints, returns, and corrective-action response time
• First-pass yield, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality
• Supplier defect rate, corrective-action effectiveness, and supplier performance
• On-time completion of inspections, first article packages, calibration, training, and quality records
• Effectiveness of corrective actions and reduction in repeat nonconformities
• Progress against annual quality objectives and improvement plans Working Conditions and Physical Requirements This position works in both office and manufacturing environments and may require extended periods of computer use, standing, walking, and observation on the production floor.

The employee may occasionally be required to lift or move items consistent with site safety practices. Personal protective equipment must be worn where designated. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions. Equal Employment Opportunity Noormac is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without unlawful discrimination. This job description summarizes the position's primary responsibilities and may be revised as business or customer requirements change.

Pay:

From $83,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Dental insurance Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance

Work Location:

In person