Quality Director

** In office role in Sacramento CA with a relo package so being shared throughout the USA**

Your mission: build a production culture where everyone owns quality.

Preach it, teach it and embed it into how people work every day. You will have a seat at the executive table and the authority to develop a quality-focused team that can scale with the company.

This is your opportunity to lead quality for a rapidly growing advanced manufacturing company with differentiated technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Bring your technical depth to challenge a process, dig into a failure, solve complex manufacturing problems and raise the bar for how quality gets done.

You will lead the quality organization across highly technical manufacturing operations, overseeing approximately 10 team members with two direct reports. You will:

• Lead, mentor and develop the quality team, raising the technical capability of the function and building strong accountability
• Own and continuously improve the Quality Management System, quality standards, procedures, controls and documentation
• Lead NADCAP accreditation requirements, audits and ongoing compliance
• Get into the technical details with engineering and manufacturing teams to challenge processes, investigate failures and solve complex quality problems
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions for nonconformances, process failures and customer quality issues
• Drive quality throughout the manufacturing process, from incoming materials and supplier quality through production, inspection and final product
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leadership to improve processes, reduce variability and prevent quality issues before they occur
• Establish and monitor quality metrics, trends and KPIs to identify problems early and drive accountability
• Lead internal, customer, regulatory and certification audits and maintain audit readiness
• Strengthen supplier quality standards, qualification processes and controls and resolve supplier related quality issues
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, scrap and rework while improving manufacturing consistency
• Build scalable quality processes and controls that support increasing production volume without sacrificing quality
• Teach quality throughout the production organization, helping employees understand the why behind standards and building individual ownership of quality
• Represent quality at the executive table and with customers, suppliers, auditors and other external stakeholders

You have:

• Prior quality leadership experience within aerospace, defense or military manufacturing
• Prior experience with NADCAP accreditation, requirements and audits
• Prior experience leading and developing quality engineers, quality professionals and inspection teams
• Deep knowledge of manufacturing Quality Management Systems, quality standards and process controls
• A collaborative leadership style. You know how to preach and teach quality, influence people and create ownership rather than becoming the quality sheriff
• Availability to work 100% on site in Sacramento, California

You might have:

• Prior experience within space manufacturing, oil and gas, energy or another highly technical, regulated manufacturing environment
• Experience building or significantly strengthening a quality organization during rapid company growth
• Experience supporting new product introduction or manufacturing scale up
• Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma knowledge or certification

Your compensation will be $200,000 to $220,000 base salary, plus incentive compensation bonus and a full benefits package.

You will work 100% on site in Sacramento, California, alongside the manufacturing, engineering and executive teams you will influence every day.

A relocation package is available for the right candidate.