Sr. Quality Manager

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Quality organization, including quality engineering, laboratory, metrology/inspection, and supplier quality capabilities.
• Establish the plant Quality Management System and lead ISO 9001 certification, with systems scalable to automotive and aerospace customer requirements.
• Establish effective processes for nonconformance and product disposition, corrective action, traceability, calibration, audits, change control, and continuous improvement.
• Own the buildout and readiness of the analytical laboratory and production inspection capability for product commissioning, qualification, and full-rate manufacturing.
• Define required laboratory and metrology equipment, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria; partner with Procurement and Engineering to place equipment purchase orders and manage vendors through installation, calibration, training, and acceptance.
• Partner with R&D and pilot facilities on analytical and test-method development, and own validation, transfer, control, and implementation for commercial production.
• Lead cross-functional development and release of process flows, PFMEAs, Control Plans, inspection/test plans, sampling strategies, MSA, and reaction plans for critical material, process, and finished-part characteristics.
• Serve as the Quality lead for pilot-to-commercial technology transfer, ensuring critical material attributes, process parameters, test methods, specifications, and lessons learned are incorporated into commercial manufacturing controls.
• Work closely with Commercial and customer teams to translate customer drawings, specifications, and qualification requirements into measurable manufacturing controls and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure manufacturing processes and measurement systems demonstrate appropriate capability before product release.
• Lead Quality deliverables for product and process qualification, APQP/PPAP, first article, safe launch, and customer-specific requirements, as applicable.
• Provide Quality leadership through equipment commissioning, manufacturing readiness, startup, and production ramp.
• Own quality performance across incoming material, metallurgical processing, machining, coating, inspection, and finished-product release.
• Serve as the Quality focal point for manufacturing-related customer concerns and complaints, leading containment, characterization, root cause investigation, corrective action, and formal customer response.
• Ensure manufacturing issues are rigorously documented and that lessons learned are incorporated into PFMEAs, Control Plans, specifications, and operating practices.
• Drive process capability, first-pass yield, defect reduction, supplier quality, customer PPM/escapes, and other key quality metrics.

Responsibilities and tasks outlined are not exhaustive and may change based on business needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing quality, materials/metallurgical engineering, or manufacturing operations, including 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience in a materials-intensive and/or precision-parts manufacturing environment, such as metals, powder metallurgy, automotive, aerospace, advanced materials, heat treatment, machining, or similar manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience spanning material/process quality and finished-part quality, including dimensional inspection, metrology, machining, or precision manufacturing.
• Experience developing and implementing PFMEAs, Control Plans, MSA, SPC/process capability, inspection plans, and corrective actions in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience with APQP/PPAP or comparable customer product and process qualification, including translating drawings and specifications into manufacturing quality requirements.
• Experience establishing or significantly developing a manufacturing QMS and supporting or leading ISO 9001 or comparable certification.
• Strong customer-facing problem-solving and communication skills, including structured root cause analysis (RCA/8D) and resolution of manufacturing quality issues.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to export-controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Greenfield manufacturing, major expansion, or new-product/process launch experience.
• Experience establishing or managing a metallurgical/materials laboratory, dimensional metrology function, or production testing organization.
• Experience transferring new materials or processes from development or pilot scale into commercial manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of IATF 16949, customer-specific requirements, GD&T, AS9100, magnetic materials, or powder metallurgy.