Corporate Quality Assurance Manager

Why Join Threadlock Precision

Threadlock Precision is a rapidly growing engineered component manufacturing organization serving leading aerospace and defense customers, including OEMs and Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers. Backed by strong financial support and positioned for continued expansion, we are investing in our people, capabilities, operations, and commercial strategies to support long-term growth and meet increasing demand across complex, high-precision manufacturing programs.

We produce highly engineered and precision-machined components for critical aerospace and defense applications, including for munitions, jet engines, airframes, and other mission-critical platforms. Our products support the defense industrial base and ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment.

We are currently hiring a Corporate Quality Manager to help strengthen and standardize quality practices across Threadlock Precision and its operating locations. This is a remote based role but with preference that this person be onsite at one of our manufacturing locations in St. Louis, MO; Frankenmuth, MI; or Cypress, CA.

The Work We Do Matters. The Work You Do Will Matter. Our products support the defense industrial base and help ensure the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment.

Reporting to our Corporate Senior Leader of Quality, the Corporate Quality Manager will help establish, implement, and maintain consistent quality processes, standards, and best practices across Threadlock Precision’s platform including future acquisitions.

This is a working-manager role that will require you to partner with site quality teams and operational leaders to strengthen Quality Management Systems, support compliance, lead audits and corrective actions, improve quality performance, and support the integration of newly acquired businesses.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Quality and Compliance

• Implement and standardize quality processes, procedures, tools, and best practices across Threadlock locations.
• Support compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal requirements.
• Assess site quality practices, identify gaps and risks, and support improvement plans.
• Help ensure quality documentation, records, calibration, traceability, configuration control, and other critical processes are effectively maintained.

Audits and Corrective Action

• Plan, coordinate, and lead internal, customer, registrar, and third-party audits across Threadlock locations.
• Support sites with audit preparation, findings, corrective actions, and closure.
• Lead or support root-cause analysis and corrective actions involving significant or recurring quality issues.
• Identify common issues across locations and help implement enterprise-wide improvements.

Customer and Operational Quality

• Support significant customer complaints, escapes, corrective-action requests, and quality investigations.
• Promote consistent practices for nonconforming material, First Article Inspection, quality planning, and customer requirements.
• Partner with operations, engineering, supply chain, and site quality teams to improve product conformity and prevent defects.
• Support supplier-quality improvement and significant supplier corrective actions.

Quality Performance and Continuous Improvement

• Establish and monitor consistent quality metrics across Threadlock locations.
• Analyze trends involving customer escapes, nonconformances, scrap, rework, audit findings, corrective actions, supplier quality, and first-pass yield.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across operating locations.
• Support continuous improvement and preventive quality initiatives.

Site Support and Acquisition Integration

• Provide coaching, guidance, and support to site quality leaders and teams.
• Help newly acquired businesses assess and strengthen their quality processes and align with Threadlock expectations.
• Support quality due diligence and integration activities as Threadlock expands.
• Travel regularly to Threadlock operating locations to provide hands-on support.

This position requires compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations. As such, candidates must be a “U.S. Person” as defined by applicable law (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or asylee/refugee).

Basic Qualifications

• At least seven (7) years of quality experience within aerospace, defense, precision machining, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• At least three (3) years of experience leading quality assurance or quality control/inspection departments.
• Experience with AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality standards and preparing for and leading internal, customer, and third-party audits.

Preferred Qualifications (in addition to Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience in an aerospace and defense precision CNC machining environment.
• Experience with AS9100.
• Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Six Sigma, or similar professional certification.
• Experience working with customer portals and aerospace quality systems such as Net-Inspect or equivalent platforms.
• Familiarity with CMM inspection, CMM programming, calibration systems, and advanced dimensional measurement methods.
• Experience supporting special-process requirements, supplier quality, or NADCAP-controlled processes.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of aerospace quality requirements and precision-manufacturing quality practices.
• Ability to translate requirements into practical, consistent processes.
• Strong audit, problem-solving, root-cause-analysis, and corrective-action capability.
• Ability to influence and build alignment across multiple locations and functions.
• Strong communication, organization, analytical, and leadership skills.
• Ability to balance customer, compliance, operational, cost, and delivery requirements without compromising product conformity.
• Hands-on, collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively from the manufacturing floor through executive leadership.

EEO Statement

Threadlock Precision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.