Are you ready to lead a cultural transformation and make a lasting impact in the aerospace industry? We’re looking for a dynamic Quality Manager to champion excellence at a site with 300 talented associates producing high-precision aerospace components. In this role, you’ll head a large quality department, driving data-driven continuous improvement and building a high-performing team that sets the standard for quality.
You’ll be the face of quality for our customers—major players in the aerospace sector—while ensuring compliance with AS9100C and Nadcap standards in a cost-effective way. Your leadership will shape quality processes, from inspection improvements to strategic planning, and you’ll play a key role in staffing for growth, managing budgets, and deploying strategies that deliver measurable results.
Success in this role means reducing internal and external PPM, improving on-time delivery, and leveraging Lean tools to foster accountability and innovation. If you thrive on solving complex challenges, influencing culture, and driving operational excellence, this is your opportunity to lead at the highest level.
What You’ll Do:
Lead a site-wide quality transformation and inspire a culture of excellence.
Manage and develop a large quality team across Assurance, Engineering, Control, and Calibration.
Serve as the primary customer interface for quality matters.
Drive strategic initiatives, KPI improvements, and continuous improvement using Lean principles.
Oversee budgets, staffing plans, and compliance with FAA and customer requirements.
What We’re Looking For:
Strong leadership and communication skills.
Expertise in AS9100C and Nadcap standards is preferred
Proven ability to manage complex quality operations and deliver results.
Capabilities and Success Factors
In-depth working knowledge of Six Sigma with the ability to effectively apply all recognized methods and techniques in a manufacturing environment (Green Belt or higher).
Strong understanding of DMAIC, dFMEA, pFMEA, DOE, Gage R & R, Statistical Process Control (SPC) and lean systems; understanding of PPAP process is desired.
Strong understanding of key manufacturing principles, such as Statics, Dynamics, Mechanical Design, Thermodynamics, Materials and Heat Transfer
Possess a mechanical aptitude that would allow for the ability to effectively function as a quality representative at Material Review Board (MRB) level.
Experience in a machine shop environment is preferred.
Experience/familiarity with aerospace grade materials and specifications (inconel, titanium, stainless steels), heat treating and case-hardening (nitriding, plasma spray, boron diffusion, etc.) preferred.
Ability to both promote and foster a Continuous Improvement culture both internally and at our supplier’s.
Previous experience in implementing and using Lean tools and methodologies.
General understanding of Aerospace customer requirements – OEM, FAA and DCMA.
Excellent computer skills (word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, etc.)
Demonstrated proficiency in project management.
Team orientated with the ability to influence others without authority
Effective communicator – strong written and verbal communication skills is required.
Ability to travel locally and out of state
Previous experience presenting to customers in a plus.
Required Education / Experience / Skills:
Education: 4-year college degree preferably in Engineering
Experience: A minimum of ten years’ management experience in Quality Assurance; previous work experience in an aerospace manufacturing (machine shop) environment is required.
Travel: less than 10%.
Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a “U.S. Person”, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.
Language: English
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
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