How You'll Make an Impact: The Quality Manager leads the Quality function for a complex aerospace CNC precision machining operation on flight-critical commercial and defense programs. This role leads the site's quality system and quality team, with a strong focus on audit readiness, customer compliance, and product conformance. The Quality Manager is a hands-on leader who strengthens systems and accountability, drives continuous improvement, and partners closely with customers and cross-functional teams to protect quality and on-time delivery. Depending on current company structure, this role reports to enterprise-level quality leadership or the site leader.
What you'll be doing as a Quality Manager:- Working a full-time onsite position at our Chatsworth, CA location.
- Own and maintain the QMS in compliance with AS9100, customer, and regulatory requirements, ensuring processes are established, documented, followed, and effective.
- Lead the Quality department, including inspection, CMM, and quality engineering; set clear expectations, coach and develop the team, and manage staffing, priorities, and performance.
- Plan and lead the internal audit program; host and support customer, registrar, and regulatory audits, and drive findings to timely, effective closure.
- Lead clean-up and remediation projects to correct legacy QMS, documentation, and process gaps, tracking actions through to verified closure.
- Manage nonconforming material and Material Review Board (MRB) activities, ensuring timely dispositions, accurate records, and scrap/rework cost reporting.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action (RCCA/CAPA) for internal, supplier, and customer escapes, and submit customer-formatted responses on time and to a high standard.
- Serve as the primary quality point of contact for customers; manage customer-specific requirements, flowdowns, quality portals and scorecards, and quality clause review on contracts and purchase orders.
- Oversee First Article Inspection (AS9102), in-process and final inspection, and CMM programming and inspection priorities to support on-time delivery without compromising conformance.
- Ensure calibration, gage control, and measurement system capability are maintained across inspection and CMM equipment.
- Partner with Supply Chain on supplier approval, performance monitoring, and supplier corrective action, including authority to approve or disapprove suppliers per the QMS.
- Establish and report quality metrics (e.g., escapes, internal defects, cost of poor quality, audit findings, CAPA aging, and quality on-time delivery) and communicate status, risks, and priorities to site and enterprise leadership.
- Promote quality at the source and operator ownership on the shop floor, including training, certified operator, FOD prevention, and counterfeit parts prevention programs as applicable.
- Support quality planning for new programs and parts, including review of engineering changes, PFMEA, and control plans as applicable.
- Use the division's ERP/MRP system to manage quality records, inspection data, and nonconformance tracking, and work with enterprise quality to align processes across divisions.
- Take on tasks outside normal duties when needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications (Education, skills and experience):- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related field, OR equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of quality experience in aerospace or precision CNC machining manufacturing, including at least 3 years in a quality supervisory or management role.
- Strong working knowledge of AS9100, with the ability to maintain a QMS and lead internal, customer, and registrar audits.
- Experience managing nonconforming material/MRB, root cause analysis, and corrective action (e.g., 8D, 5-Why, fishbone).
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, GD&T (ASME Y14.5), customer specifications, and flowdown requirements.
- Working knowledge of inspection methods, First Article Inspection (AS9102), CMM inspection, and calibration/gage control.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and hold a team accountable, and to drive improvement and clean-up projects to closure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work professionally and confidently with demanding customers, suppliers, and auditors.
- Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Office.
- Reliable, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications (Education, skills and experience):- Experience with GlobalShop, JobBOSS, or JobBOSS² ERP systems.
- Experience with CMM inspection software (e.g., PC-DMIS, Calypso, or similar).
- ASQ certification (e.g., CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE) or AS9100 lead auditor training.
- Experience leading QMS remediation, audit recovery, or quality turnaround efforts.
- Familiarity with AS9145 (APQP/PPAP), AS13100, NADCAP special processes, and ITAR/export compliance.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
Compensation and Benefits: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
- Choice of medical plan options, including a no-cost employee-only coverage plan
- HSA-eligible health plan with employer contributions
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan with up to a 6% QACA company match
- Paid time off including vacation, sick time, and nine (9) paid company holidays
- Shift differentials for applicable off-shifts
- Discretionary bonus programs based on position and company performance
The Quality Manager Compensation range for onsite California applicants is $145-155k commensurate with experience. Some shifts may include shift differential pay rates. Other site ranges may differ.}
