Compliance- Review customer contracts, purchase orders, drawings, specifications, and related documents to identify and interpret quality requirements.
- Ensure customer, regulatory, and AS9100 requirements are properly documented and flowed down to manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and quality processes.
- Identify compliance risks, specification gaps, and potentially unachievable requirements, and coordinate resolution prior to order acceptance.
- Maintain customer-specific quality requirements, change notifications, and compliance records.
- Support audits, First Article Inspection (FAI) requirements, and regulatory compliance activities.
- Conduct specification change reviews and initiate required Engineering Change Requests (ECRs).
- Verify customer requirements are properly flowed down to production orders, inspection plans, manufacturing routings, and supplier purchase orders prior to release.
- Provide Support to the estimating team to capture quality cost, including cost associated with the inspection, documentation, and verification of product.
- Confirm organizational and supplier capability to meet contractual inspection, testing, certification, traceability, and documentation requirements.
- Maintain contract review records and support customer communications to resolve unclear or conflicting quality requirements.
Improvement- Develop and execute continuous improvement roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Collect and analyze production and quality data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Lead improvement efforts and cross functional teams, focused on recurring issues impacting MRB, Yield, On-Time Delivery (OTD), customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
- Facilitate Kaizen events, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and structured problem-solving workshops.
- Establish, monitor, and communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and performance dashboards.
- Track project performance and report measurable savings, efficiency gains, and benefits realization.
Qualifications / Skills- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Quality, Operations Management, Business, or related field preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Quality, Compliance, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing, or Operational Excellence roles.
- Working knowledge of AS9100, ISO-based quality systems, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Six Sigma, and root cause analysis methodologies.
- Strong analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
- Proficiency with ERP, PLM, quality management systems, and data analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional improvement initiatives and deliver measurable business results.
- Possess fundamental skills: time/organization management, project management, communication (written/verbal), detail-oriented and ability to read and understand technical publications and instructions.
- Proficiency in MS Office 2010 environment (Word, Excel, Project, Outlook), and SAP R/3.
- Meet the requirements under ITAR: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).
The base compensation for this position is between 90-120k annually, commensurate with skill and experience level. This role will also be bonus eligible.
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