Director, Quality Assurance - Engine Component Repair Services

We're looking for a Director, Quality Assurance - Engine Component Repair Services (ECRS) to provide strategic and day-to-day quality leadership across Chromalloy’s ECRS repair locations. This highly visible role leads site Quality Managers and drives consistent quality strategy, regulatory compliance, product integrity, customer performance, and continuous improvement across the segment.

The successful candidate will partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, and corporate Quality leaders to reduce risk, strengthen operating discipline, and support safe, compliant business growth. This leader will translate strategy into action, develop strong teams, and communicate effectively from the shop floor to the executive level.

At Chromalloy, your work directly supports aviation safety and reliability
. Our teams repair and manufacture critical aerospace components used across the global aviation industry. As a people leader, you’ll help ensure our repair locations deliver compliant, reliable products and services that keep aircraft flying safely around the world.

United States, based at a Chromalloy site

Regular domestic and international travel to ECRS repair locations, customers, and regulatory activities

• Own and deploy the ECRS segment quality strategy, priorities, operating rhythm, and improvement roadmap across repair locations.
• Lead, coach, and hold accountable site Quality Managers while strengthening succession, capability, and organizational depth.
• Serve as the senior Quality partner to segment leadership and communicate performance, risks, resource needs, and recovery plans to executive leaders.
• Ensure compliance with FAA Part 145 and applicable FAA, EASA, CAAC, UK CAA, certification, customer, and internal requirements.
• Drive audit readiness, corrective action, effectiveness reviews, and prevention of repeat findings across the segment.
• Use quality metrics and risk signals to improve performance, reduce quality escapes, and strengthen product and customer outcomes.
• Lead responses to significant customer concerns, product escapes, investigations, containment, risk evaluation, and recovery plans.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve first-pass yield, process capability, documentation discipline, and defect prevention without compromising compliance.
• Drive consistent quality governance, data standards, management reviews, and electronic quality management workflows across ECRS locations.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, regulators, and certification bodies through clear communication and disciplined follow-through.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Quality, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 12 years of progressive aerospace quality, maintenance/repair/overhaul, repair-station, manufacturing, engineering, or operational leadership experience.
• At least 7 years of people-leadership experience, including leadership of site Quality Managers or a comparable multi-site quality organization.
• Demonstrated experience with FAA Part 145 repair-station operations and applicable aviation regulatory requirements.
• Proven success leading quality performance, regulatory compliance, customer recovery, audits, investigations, and corrective-action programs across multiple facilities.
• Strong executive communication, judgment under pressure, and willingness to escape or stop work when compliance, airworthiness, or product integrity may be at risk.

• Master’s degree.
• ASQ quality certification, Lead Auditor certification, or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
• FAA Repairman Certificate experience or prior accountable quality leadership within a…