Quality Specialist III

Launch your career to new heights with Innoflight—one of San Diego’s fastest-growing Aerospace and Defense innovators. Here, visionary minds engineer the future of space technology through pioneering, compact, and cyber-secure solutions. From software-defined radios to cutting-edge cryptographic systems and avionics, everything we build powers the next era of New Space. Join our small, agile, and mission-driven team where your work has real impact and your growth has no limits.

We’re not just reaching for the stars—we’re engineering them. Let’s innovate the infinite, together.

As a Quality Specialist III, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the quality, compliance, and continuous improvement of Innoflight’s products and processes. You’ll lead complex quality assurance activities across multiple programs, perform advanced inspections and audits, investigate production and process challenges, and develop solutions that improve operational performance. Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Program Management, customers, and suppliers, you’ll help strengthen our quality systems, support company-level certifications, and ensure our products and processes meet the high standards expected in the aerospace industry.

• Leads Quality Initiatives: Leads and supports Quality, Engineering, and Operations programs and initiatives designed to achieve operational goals, improve quality, and enhance organizational performance.
• Develops Quality Systems: Develops, implements, and maintains quality assurance policies, procedures, control plans, and work instructions across multiple functional areas.
• Drives Process Improvement: Independently identifies opportunities to optimize internal and external processes, implementing improvements that increase quality, efficiency, and operational effectiveness.
• Supports Quality
  
  Certifications:
  
  Contributes to company-level quality certifications and assessments, including CMMI Maturity Level 2/3 and AS9000/AS9100 initiatives.
• Leads Internal Audits: Plans and performs internal audits to evaluate QMS compliance and ensure processes and systems align with applicable industry standards and requirements.
• Performs Quality Inspections: Conducts advanced inspections and quality tests across multiple programs, verifying compliance with engineering specifications, quality standards, and established procedures.
• Drives Corrective Actions: Identifies production, process, and workflow issues, performs root cause analysis, and implements corrective actions to resolve problems and prevent recurrence.
• Manages Program Audits: Plans, schedules, and conducts monthly, quarterly, and annual program audits to evaluate performance, compliance, and adherence to quality requirements.
• Maintains Quality Documentation: Develops and maintains quality documentation, audit reports, work instructions, control plans, and other records required to support effective quality management.
• Manages Quality Risk: Develops risk mitigation strategies, establishes performance metrics, and evaluates methodologies to identify and address potential quality and operational risks.
• Supports Customers: Provides direct customer support for hardware and software failures by troubleshooting issues, identifying root causes, and delivering effective resolutions aligned with customer expectations.
• Manages Supplier Quality: Interfaces with suppliers to ensure quality requirements are met, supports supplier issue resolution, and maintains effective supplier relationships with limited travel as required.
• Ensures Compliance: Monitors adherence to company standards, safety requirements, regulatory guidelines, and quality system requirements across…