Quality Assurance Manager

Redwire’s Goleta facility is Made for the Mission, delivering advanced power generation technologies that enable spacecraft to operate reliably across every orbit and mission profile. With proprietary designs, deep technical expertise, and large-scale production capabilities, the team develops solar array solutions tailored to each customer’s size, power, and orbital needs. At the heart of these offerings is Redwire’s patented Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA), an award-winning system that uses composite booms and modular photovoltaic blankets to create compactly stowable, highly efficient solar arrays.

These mission-proven power systems have supported successful deployments across LEO, GEO, and deep space missions, including the ISS, NASA's IXPE mission, and NASA's DART mission.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance Manager at our Goleta, CA facility. In this leadership role, you will be responsible for ensuring that all procured supplier materials and internally produced products meet applicable program, contractual, and quality control requirements. You will also oversee the site's calibration program and provide guidance on general quality matters across the quality team and the broader Goleta organization.

• Provide leadership and oversight for site-level receiving, in process, and final product quality control inspection, as well as the quality task administrator sub team.
• Lead and guide significant projects and continuous improvement initiatives; implement process changes, solve complex operational issues, partner cross functionally, and drive departmental goals using data driven decision making.
• Operate with a high level of independence while providing direction, coaching, and support to team members; act as a resource and mentor for others.
• Lead skilled, independent contributors; establish team goals and operating guidelines with input from senior leadership; plan and prioritize departmental work to meet short term objectives; train and develop staff; resolve challenging problems; participate in hiring decisions and performance management; and support career growth and cross-functional alignment with engineering and project management.
• Own Quality Management System processes related to receiving, in process, and final product inspection, calibration, and select general quality procedures.
• Assign work, delegate responsibilities, set accountability expectations, and maintain metrics, reporting, and performance visibility for the team.
• Drive both proactive and reactive improvements across receiving, in process, and final product inspection, calibration, and general quality processes based on performance data and trends.
• Investigate and troubleshoot product and production issues related to receiving, in process, final inspection, calibration, and general quality functions.
• Support processing of nonconforming materials through the established nonconformance workflow, ensuring timely documentation, disposition, and communication.
• Support corrective action activities by reviewing supplier root cause analyses and corrective/preventive action plans; ensure adequacy, follow up, implementation, and effectiveness of actions.
• Interface with program personnel to address receiving, in process, final inspection, calibration, and general quality topics.
• Provide occasional support to other projects and programs as directed by the site Quality Assurance Manager.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a STEM field, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in quality assurance and/or control - preferably in the aerospace or space-technology industry with a minimum of 2 years of supervisor/management experience; or 12+ years of equivalent…