Senior Quality Manager – Assurance, Regulatory Compliance

Job Description:

• Lead the enterprise assurance program, including risk-based internal-audit planning, common audit methodology, auditor qualification and calibration, audit reporting, and QMS-effectiveness assessments across multiple sites
• Establish enterprise regulatory-compliance requirements and harmonize common regulatory controls across sites
• Develop and maintain aligned documentation and implementation practices for shared requirements while preserving appropriate site-specific manuals, certificates, and procedures
• Establish standards for audit planning, execution, reporting, corrective-action follow-up, and effectiveness verification
• Monitor compliance health, audit trends, certification status, significant findings, and systemic-risk indicators
• Provide reporting, recommendations, and escalation to executive leadership
• Provide enterprise oversight for AS9100, AS9110, Nadcap, customer, and applicable regulatory requirements
• Coordinate certification and regulatory audit-readiness activities and support significant customer, certification-body, aviation-authority, and Nadcap audits
• Review significant findings, escapes, and compliance events, including containment, root-cause and corrective-action quality, product-impact assessment, effectiveness verification, and cross-site learning
• Identify and escalate systemic Quality and regulatory risks to the Global VP Quality
• Partner with QMS & Process Excellence, Supplier Quality, site Quality Managers, and Operations leaders to drive improvements
• Develop and maintain a qualified internal-auditor community through coaching, calibration, and development
• Build relationships with Site Quality Managers and Site General Managers while respecting site ownership of daily Quality execution
• Travel domestically and internationally approximately 20–30% of the time

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Quality, regulatory, manufacturing, or engineering experience in a complex aerospace manufacturing or maintenance environment
• Experience leading internal-audit programs, certification readiness, regulatory compliance, or Quality-system assurance activities across multiple sites, functions, or business units
• Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and/or AS9110, applicable customer-specific requirements, and aerospace Quality Management System principles
• Familiarity with AS13100 preferred
• Experience with Nadcap requirements, audit preparation, finding response, corrective-action effectiveness, and special-process compliance strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of applicable aviation-authority requirements
• Familiarity with FAA regulations strongly preferred; familiarity with EASA, UK CAA, and other international aviation authorities preferred
• Knowledge of risk-based auditing, process-based auditing, root-cause analysis, CAPA, nonconformance control, management review, risk management, and regulatory-change management
• Ability to independently assess compliance and process effectiveness, identify systemic risk, and communicate evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership
• Ability to influence without direct authority, lead cross-functional corrective-action efforts, and build alignment across Site Quality, Operations, Engineering, and other business functions
• Strong analytical, project-management, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience working across cultures, time zones, and changing business priorities in a global organization
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Experience with QMS software, audit-management tools, ERP/MES systems, and business-intelligence tools preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Aviation, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant technical experience may be considered
• Lead Auditor certification in AS9100 and/or AS9110 auditing strongly preferred
• Other relevant professional auditing certifications, such as ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, preferred
• Must satisfy applicable U.S. export-control requirements; non-U.S. Persons may require an export-control license

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions for eligible medical plan participants
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee discounts
• Voluntary accident and critical illness coverage
• Pet insurance
• Work-life support resources
• Remote work within the US
• Export-license support/contingent employment assessment for controlled information access