MTL Quality Assurance Manager

Full Time SG&A Hatfield, PA, US

4 days ago Requisition

Laboratory Testing (LTI) has been the trusted testing partner for mission-critical industries since 1984, when Robert W. McVaugh opened its doors as a local metallurgical lab. Today, LTI is ISO 17025 and NADCAP accredited, running destructive and non-destructive testing, machining, and calibration services for close to 3,000 customers across the aerospace, defense, space, and nuclear supply chains.

The company is still led by the McVaugh family, now in its third generation, and has partnered with Kanbrick, a long-term investment partnership, to bring operating support and capital to its next phase of growth without losing what built it.

LTI tests parts that cannot fail, and the quality system is what makes those results trustworthy. Reporting to the Director of Quality and Cybersecurity, the QA Manager for the Materials Testing Lab implements, maintains, and improves LTI’s accredited quality system and serves as the first line of corporate quality oversight across the business units. It is a hands-on seat: you work shoulder to shoulder with lab and operations leadership, subject matter experts, engineers, technicians, auditors, customers, and suppliers rather than managing from a distance.

On-site presence is expected wherever the work requires it, principally at LTI’s Hatfield, Pennsylvania campus, with travel of roughly 10 to 20 percent to other LTI sites, newly acquired facilities, vendors, and occasional industry conferences.

You own the audit program end to end. You host and lead customer audits, accreditation audits (Nadcap aerospace and A2LA ISO/IEC 17025), and nuclear customer audits under NIAC, ASME NQA-1, and 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, and you lead the internal audit program that keeps LTI ready for all of them. You represent quality directly to auditors, customers, and executive leadership, and you own the outcome of those audits in partnership with Operations rather than handing findings across the fence.

You own corrective and preventive action, not just the paperwork that surrounds it. You coach functional owners through real root‑cause rigor, build error‑proofing into the corrective action process, and verify effectiveness before anything closes. Document control and change management governance sit with you as well: revisions move on time, approvals are right, and records hold up under scrutiny.

The test labs and Operations teams are your customers as much as any external customer is. You translate accreditation and regulatory requirements into steps a lab can actually run, then roll up your sleeves to implement and sustain them. Before raising a requirement, you verify that it genuinely applies and is right‑sized, and you bring a workable solution to the people who have to live with it.

The measure of your work is accurate, on‑time test reporting, satisfied customers, and clean external audits, not the volume of findings you issue.

You build QA capability and working relationships across every business unit: destructive testing, calibration, non‑destructive testing, and Assured in Ridgway. Corporate quality is a small team by design, so you drive accountability through credibility and partnership rather than formal line authority, working alongside the quality and QC resources embedded in each unit. As LTI acquires, you lead or support quality due diligence before the deal and integration after it, partnering with the Director on newly acquired sites.

You support government and defense compliance activity,…