Director of Quality

Prometheus Energetics is an independent U.S.

-based merchant supplier of solid rocket motors and warheads. Prometheus combines U.S. industrial speed and credibility with decades of combat-proven designs, manufacturing know-how, and technical training to deliver field-ready products at scale.

The Director of Quality is responsible for building, certifying, and sustaining the company’s Quality Management System (QMS). This leader establishes an independent quality function to ensure that products and processes meet contractual, technical, regulatory, safety, and customer requirements.

Working across multiple teams, the Director converts product and process requirements into practical controls throughout the product lifecycle. The role owns enterprise quality strategy, AS9100 certification readiness, customer and regulatory quality interfaces, supplier quality, inspection and metrology, nonconformance and corrective action, and the use of performance data to prevent defects and improve cost, schedule, and mission assurance.

• Develop and execute the quality strategy, certification roadmap, annual objectives, budget, staffing plan, and operating rhythm aligned with company growth and production ramp plans.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization that may include quality engineering, supplier quality, inspection, metrology, document control, and quality systems personnel.
• Serve as the company’s independent quality authority; stop work, withhold product acceptance or shipment, and escalate risks when requirements are not met or product integrity could be compromised.
• Establish a culture grounded in quality, accountability, prevention, ethical decision-making, and the expectation that every employee owns product quality.
• Advise the COO and leadership team on quality risk, customer performance, resource needs, certification status, and systemic improvement priorities.

• Design, implement, document, and maintain an AS9100D/ISO 9001-compliant QMS suitable for a greenfield aerospace and defense manufacturing operation; lead initial certification, surveillance, and recertification activities.
• Own QMS processes including document and record control, internal audit, management review, risk and opportunity management, change control, training effectiveness, calibration, nonconformance, corrective action, and continual improvement.
• Ensure requirements from customer contracts, drawings, specifications, statements of work, FAR/DFARS clauses, Defense Contract Management Agency oversight, and applicable military or industry standards are identified, flowed down, implemented, and objectively verified.
• Establish audit schedules, train internal auditors, manage external and customer audits, and ensure findings are contained, corrected, and closed with effective systemic action.
• Evaluate and implement applicable standards and special-process controls, including AS9102 first article inspection, AS9145/APQP and production part approval, AS9103 key characteristics, and Nadcap requirements where contractually or operationally applicable.

• Approve manufacturing plans, travelers, work instructions, inspection plans, acceptance criteria, control plans, sampling plans, and quality gates to ensure complete and unambiguous verification of requirements.
• Provide quality oversight for energetic-material receipt, mixing, casting, curing, assembly, machining, nondestructive evaluation, test, storage, and final acceptance processes, as applicable to the product and facility.
• Establish disciplined configuration, traceability, lot control, material status identification, product preservation, foreign-object prevention, counterfeit-parts prevention, and record-retention practices.
• Lead prevention and resolution of defects using PFMEA, control plans, measurement system analysis, statistical process control, layered process audits, root‑cause analysis, and mistake‑proofing.
• Reduce scrap, rework, escapes, and variation while ensuring production pressure never overrides safety, technical compliance, or product integrity.