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This role serves as the senior site authority for quality, compliance, and EHS, ensuring products, services, and operations meet contractual requirements, NAVSEA standards, and corporate Quality Management System (QMS) expectations. Working within an established enterprise framework, this leader will partner with operations, engineering, and executive leadership to strengthen site-level quality capabilities in support of a growing manufacturing and service organization.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on leadership experience in U.S. Navy or DoD fabrication, ship repair, or industrial manufacturing environments, with strong knowledge of NAVSEA standards, welding and fabrication quality practices, regulated quality systems, and operational leadership in highly compliant settings.
This is an opportunity to help shape a growing operation by strengthening scalable quality systems, operational rigor, and compliance for mission-critical defense and maritime programs.
Success Criteria:
In this leadership role, you will drive site quality performance, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness at Jered's Norfolk facility. Your leadership will directly support successful execution of Navy and defense programs while ensuring alignment with corporate quality standards and customer expectations.
You will lead site-level quality, inspection, and EHS programs across fabrication, welding, machining, assembly, and field service activities, balancing strategic leadership with practical execution in a custom manufacturing environment.
Success will be measured by your ability to establish scalable quality systems that support operational growth while maintaining compliance with NAVSEA, DoD, OSHA, ISO 9001, ABS, and customer-specific requirements. You will drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing rework, improving process capability, strengthening audit readiness, and increasing operational effectiveness.
You will also serve as the primary interface for customer quality interactions, government representatives, DCMA, SUPSHIP, and external auditors. Strong risk identification, corrective action management, and organizational accountability will be critical to success.
This role is ideal for a leader who combines technical quality expertise with operational leadership in highly regulated industrial environments supporting defense and maritime applications.
Technical Scope and Environment
Jered supports advanced manufacturing, fabrication, repair, and engineered systems programs for U.S. Navy and defense customers involving:
• Heavy fabrication and welding operations
• Shipboard installation and repair activities
• Custom engineered equipment and handling systems
• Inspection, testing, and verification programs
• Highly regulated manufacturing and quality environments
• Multi-site operational and compliance coordination
Common Standards and Systems Include:
• NAVSEA technical publications and military specifications
• NQA-1 and regulated quality management systems
• ISO 9001 quality standards
• Welding procedures qualified to S9074-AQ-GIB-010/248
• NDT oversight and compliance to T9074-AS-GIB-010/271
• NCR, MRB, CAPA, and audit management systems
• OSHA and industrial EHS compliance programs
• ERP and Quality Management System (QMS) platforms
Site Leadership & Quality Ownership
• Serve as the Norfolk site leader for Quality, Compliance, and EHS programs.
• Lead and develop the site quality organization, including inspectors and quality personnel.
• Monitor KPIs related to NCR trends, audit findings, rework, and cost of poor quality.
• Provide leadership visibility into compliance risks and improvement priorities.
• Partner with Operations leadership to integrate quality and compliance into execution planning.
Startup & Operational Readiness
• Lead implementation of corporate QMS processes at the Norfolk site.
• Develop scalable quality practices aligned with operational growth…
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