Member of Technical Staff, Principal Quality

About Ironstead

Ironstead Industrial Inc. acquires precision machine shops and manufacturing businesses in aerospace/defense, maritime, and commercial sectors, and rebuilds them into modern, data-driven operations. We don't run playbooks from a spreadsheet in another state. We parachute in, work shoulder to shoulder with machine operators, and rebuild the operating system of the business from the inside. IronsteadOS, our purpose-built operating platform syncing customer design to final inspection & logistics, is the backbone of that transformation, but the platform only works if someone on the ground earns the trust to implement it.

Ironstead is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Principal Quality to build the quality operating system for a growing portfolio of precision manufacturing businesses. This person will be Ironstead’s senior technical authority for both Quality Management Systems and product quality. You will establish the standards that allow our businesses to scale without compromising the quality expectations of aerospace, defense, and commercial customers and you will work directly with the people producing and inspecting the parts.

This is not a corporate quality role that audits the shop from a distance. One day you may be defining how AS9100 processes should operate across the portfolio; the next you may be at a CMM, reviewing a first article, working through a customer escape, or helping a newly acquired facility close a systemic corrective action. The ideal candidate combines deep QMS knowledge with exceptional product quality judgement.

They understand that a good quality system is not paperwork layered on top of manufacturing, it is the operating discipline that makes manufacturing predictable.

• Author and deploy a unified portfolio Quality Management System (QMS) framework, codifying AS9100/ISO 9001 governance, AS9102 FAI protocols, and multi-site audit standards into a scalable enterprise playbook.

• Upgrade quality infrastructure across newly acquired facilities, identifying systemic operational gaps and executing prioritized CAPAs to eliminate yield risk without compromising delivery schedules.

• Establish enterprise wide standards for document control, configuration management, instrument calibration, supplier quality, and internal audits to maintain compliance across growing network sites.

• Embed automated quality workflows and closed-loop inspection data directly into IronsteadOS, streamlining nonconformance tracking, MRB dispositions, and audit-trail generation.

• Drive network wide quality visibility by establishing real time tracking for customer escapes, first-pass yield, scrap/rework ratios, CAPA resolution velocity, and recurring failure modes.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for high stakes quality escalations, resolving critical discrepancies between engineering design intent, shop floor process capability, and customer specifications.

• Lead First Article Inspections (AS9102), Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), and Material Review Board (MRB) dispositions, executing disciplined root cause analysis and 8D corrective actions.

• Evaluate GD&T schemes, datum structures, and measurement uncertainty to de-risk high precision features and critical-to-quality (CTQ) component requirements.

• Modernize network metrology strategies, driving advanced CMM programming, automated in-process probing, closed loop gaging, and sampling protocols to accelerate first pass yield.

• Deploy statistical process control (SPC), process capability analysis, and PFMEAs across key product lines to proactively drive down defect rates and eliminate yield loss.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, manufacturing,…