Compliance Manager, Quality and Product

Position Overview:

Velo3D designs and manufactures metal additive manufacturing systems and provides rapid production services to customers in aerospace, defense, space, energy, and medical markets. Operating as a contract manufacturer brings Velo3D within a set of industry accreditation, certification, and customer‑mandated quality requirements that must be actively maintained, evidenced, and audited.

The Quality and Product Compliance Manager owns that compliance portfolio. The role is embedded with the Quality organization and works in its daily rhythm, but reports through Legal and Compliance so that the evidence, audit responses, and attestations describing Velo3D’s compliance are prepared independently of the function whose performance they describe.

This is a hands‑on program‑owner role, not an oversight role and not a quality engineering role. The successful candidate will align the documentation, maintain the evidentiary record, respond to findings, and hold the schedule.

• Own Velo3D’s participation in NCAMP, NIAR, JAQS, and America Makes laser powder bed fusion qualification and accreditation activity, including documentation alignment, industry communications, audit activity, records review, and key performance indicator management.
• Own compliance with customer‑mandated aerospace quality standards, including AS13100: self‑assessment, clause mapping, customer meetings, training delivery, and document updates.
• Lead Velo3D’s pursuit and maintenance of ASTM additive manufacturing certification, working with the Safety Equipment Institute and other certifying bodies.
• Monitor emerging additive manufacturing standards and accreditation programs relevant to Velo3D’s markets and advise on which the company should pursue.

• Support the Director of Quality on the AS9100 certification cycle, owning the evidentiary record, nonconformance response documentation and OASIS records.
• Assist with customer audits; support internal audit activity relating to certification scope.
• Track corrective and preventive actions arising from certification, customer, and registrar audits to closure.

• Maintain participation in the Government Industry Data Exchange Program and other counterfeit and nonconforming parts reporting programs, including membership requirements, periodic activity, and annual reporting.
• Review customer quality requirements, supplier requirement manuals, and quality clauses; maintain the register of requirements Velo3D has committed to and confirm implementation.
• Issue and collect supplier export compliance acknowledgements and maintain the resulting records, on the form and screening criteria set by the Compliance Manager — Government Contracts, Trade and Corporate Compliance.
• Support representations, certifications, and attestations relating to product compliance and quality standards.
• Escalate contractual questions to the Chief Legal Officer, and export control and federal procurement questions to the Compliance Manager — Government Contracts, Trade and Corporate Compliance.

• Draft and maintain compliance policies, procedures, and work instructions within scope; own the review calendar and version control.
• Deliver training on applicable certification and compliance obligations to engineering, operations, supply chain, and quality personnel.
• Maintain a consolidated certification and compliance deadline calendar and report status, metrics, and material issues to the Chief Legal Officer and the Director of Quality.

• Extend accreditation and certification scope to the Livermore facility as it becomes active, including scope extension filings, facility‑specific documentation, and audit readiness.
• Support cross‑training so that certification and audit coverage does not depend on a single individual.

The Quality organization owns quality engineering, inspection, material review, process control, and the technical qualification of suppliers. This position does not direct that…