Maintenance Standards & QA Manager

Job Summary

General Atomics Systems Integration, LLC (GA-SI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a provider of military and commercial engineering services. GA-SI is a leading-edge expert in systems integration technologies, reliability improvements, and controls system design.

General Atomics Systems Integration, LLC (GA-SI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a provider of military and commercial engineering services. GA-SI is a leading-edge expert in systems integration technologies, reliability improvements, and controls system design. The Maintenance Standards & QA Manager will be responsible for leading maintenance standardization, operational consistency, and execution oversight across all supported contractor work centers, personnel, and operated programs.

This role focuses primarily on strengthening maintenance execution through standardized practices, operational discipline, field assessments, compliance visibility, and continuous improvement initiatives designed to improve consistency across sites, programs, and customers. The position serves as a strategic operational resource responsible for reinforcing maintenance standards, reducing site-to-site variability, identifying execution gaps, and improving the overall quality and consistency of field maintenance operations.

While Quality Assurance (QA) remains an important component of the role, the primary emphasis is on maintenance operational standardization, execution discipline, and sustainment of enterprise maintenance expectations across the field. Working closely with Field Operations, Site Management, Safety, Training, QA, and functional leadership teams, the Maintenance Standards & QA Manager ensures maintenance activities are executed safely, consistently, and in alignment with approved procedures, customer requirements, contractual obligations, and enterprise operational standards.

This position may oversee Quality Assurance Representatives (QARs), Collateral Duty Inspectors (CDIs), Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and other operational support personnel in support of standards enforcement, field assessments, operational reviews, audit readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. As the role matures, responsibilities may expand to include broader governance, development, and oversight of Flight Operations Procedures (FOPs) and Ground Operations Procedures (GOPs) in support of evolving program and customer requirements.

• Lead efforts to strengthen maintenance standardization, operational consistency, and execution discipline across multiple sites, programs, and supported customers.
• Evaluate maintenance operations to identify execution gaps, process drift, inconsistent practices, and opportunities to improve maintenance quality and operational effectiveness.
• Develop, reinforce, and sustain standardized maintenance practices, operational expectations, inspection processes, and execution frameworks across supported locations.
• Conduct field assessments, operational reviews, standards evaluations, and oversight activities to validate maintenance execution and reinforce enterprise maintenance expectations.
• Partner cross-functionally with Field Operations, Site Management, Safety, Training, Enterprise QA, and leadership teams to support operational effectiveness and improve field execution consistency.
• Provide operational visibility, standards reinforcement, and execution assessments to proactively identify risks, improvement opportunities, and operational concerns related to maintenance quality, compliance, and execution performance.
• Support field execution initiatives through regular travel, site visits, operational reviews, audits, and collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to reinforce standards, share best practices, and support corrective actions.
• Lead or support root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) activities related to maintenance discrepancies, process nonconformances, operational concerns, and safety-related findings.
• Identify recurring trends, systemic issues, and operational risks through analysis of field observations, audits, assessments, safety reporting, and operational feedback.
• Coordinate closely with functional leadership to deconflict operational priorities, site engagements, audits, travel, and support activities.

• Support the development, maintenance, and execution of Quality Assurance…