Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Sterling, VA

Pay From: $ per year

• Experienced Quality Manager
• 8+ years in aerospace, UAS, defense, or safety
  - critical quality manufacturing.
• Direct experience with AS9100 (or equivalent: EN9100, AS9110, AS9120) quality systems, including configuration control/traceability and issuing release documentation (e.g., CoCs).
• Experience managing inspection teams and leading internal quality audits (planning, evidence gathering, nonconformance identification, and closure).

• Establish, implement, and continuously improve the AS9100D QMS, including quality procedures, inspection plans, work instructions, and nonconformance processes.
• Partner with Engineering on Design and Development processes that meet AS9100 requirements.
• Own configuration management (revision control, effectivity, serial traceability) and document control/records required for AS9100 compliance.
• Lead the internal audit program - planning, auditor training, execution, reporting, and corrective action follow-up - and serve as the organization's Lead Auditor (AS9100 Lead Auditor certification required if not already held).
• Coordinate customer, regulatory, and third-party quality audits.
• Build and lead the inspection team (incoming, in-process, and final assembly), establishing inspection criteria for structural, avionics, propulsion, and hydrogen system components; verify compliance with approved configurations prior to release.
• Validate traceability documentation, issue Certificates of Conformance, and hold product acceptance/release authority.
• Own the Nonconformance Report (NCR) system: containment, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Partner with Supply Chain on supplier quality performance, nonconformances, and corrective actions.
• Track and report quality metrics (first-pass yield, defect rates, on-time delivery, supplier performance, customer satisfaction) and drive process improvements with Engineering and Production to reduce quality escapes.
• Directly manage Incoming, In-Process, and Final Assembly Quality Inspectors, while maintaining Quality's independence from Production and Engineering.

Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.

• Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act.