Quality Assurance Manager (FAA Repairstation Aircraft Parts)

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking a hands-on Quality Assurance Manager (MRO Inspection) with aviation repair experience to join our awesome team! You must be a people first manager who can mentor and coach. This role consolidates leadership, quality control, and compliance management: team supervision, quality audits, manuals, and operational support. If you enjoy working under minimal supervision with the freedom and flexibility to directly oversee inspection and production, have excellent communication skills, can collaborate with our internal staff and clients, while leaving your ego at the door, then we are looking for you. Repairtech’s company culture is one that embraces a positive, open-door policy environment and encourages a strong sense of teamwork.

Repairtech International, Inc is a state-of-the art FAA repair station providing innovative repair development to clients around the world. Repairtech’s expertise in repair design for mechanical aircraft parts in the commercial and military aviation industries has been utilized since 1978.

If you believe you could fit in with our team and live in the Van Nuys/San Fernando Valley/Northern Los Angeles County area, then we’d like to hear from you. NO RELOCATION OFFERED-You must be local, we cannot stress this enough. San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Glendale, Pasadena, maybe Lancaster.

Job Responsibilities:

Reports directly to the Director of Quality & Engineering

• Manage Team: Coach/mentor direct reports, inspectors, quality analysts, and the NDT department including performance reviews, merit increases and performance management.
• Quality & Document Control: Reviews, signs, and audits work routers, repair packages, and FAA Form 8130-3 shipment documents for complete accuracy.
• Audit Management: Conducts annual internal, product, and job audits alongside scheduled external supplier audits and corrective action responses.
• Technical & NDT Oversight: Acts as the NDT Level II and Level III contact, approves technical sheets, and reviews brazing applications.
• Part Inspection & Testing: Inspects supplier parts, performs hardness testing, operates a Profilometer, and uses a CMM for inspections.
• Compliance & Environmental: Serves as the main contact for CERS environmental reporting, manages shelf life, and reviews military parts with DCMA representatives. FAA/EASA Part 145, OEM, NADCAP, (CAPA), CAAC, CASE, AS9100/9110 requirements & audits. Serve as FAA Drug & Alcohol Program Designated Employer Representative (DER).
• Maintenance & Equipment: Tracks and determines equipment preventative maintenance schedules and logs.
• Warranty & Non-Conformance: Manages the warranty program, logs claims, and creates internal/external non-conformance reports.
• Supplier Quality: Obtains corrected supplier certifications and verifies that supplier audits run on schedule.
• Facility Programs: Facilitates 5S training, tracks logs, and manages scheduled vision exams for appropriate personnel.

Requirements:

• Must add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Certified Level 1 NDT auditor and/or ability to become certified.
• Word, Excel, ERP System or experience with in-house database system.
• Ability to read and apply precision measuring instrument to blue print requirements.
• Possess good inter personal and motivational skills.
• Prepare layouts, including prototype work.
• Meet production schedules and deadlines on time.
• Contribute to methods improvement program.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, quality assurance, or related field or in lieu of a degree, 4 years minimum experience working as an engineer in the relevant field.
• Understanding of mechanical systems and inspection processes, including in-process inspection and dimensional inspection.
• 10-15 years experience in Quality environment with 5 years as a supervisor or manager in machining techniques and manufacturing.
• 3 to 5 years lean manufacturing with ability to implement conceptual ideas to the shop floor.
• FAA Certified Repair.

We offer a competitive compensation, benefits and retirement package.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.