Lead Quality Specialist

Posted 22hrs ago

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Lead Quality Specialist owning quality systems for Aechelon Technology, a Shield AI company producing 3D simulation content. Driving audits, supplier quality, CAPA, and customer compliance.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and continuously improve the Quality Management System for Aechelon Technology’s simulation products, programs, and services within Shield AI
  • Drive quality from development through delivery and support across Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Contracts, and Procurement
  • Serve as the primary quality liaison for customers, suppliers, and subcontractors
  • Ensure customer quality commitments flow down to suppliers and subcontractors and are met throughout execution
  • Maintain QMS policies, procedures, records, and objective evidence
  • Plan and conduct risk-based internal, program, supplier, and subcontractor audits
  • Support customer and third-party assessments, including audits required to maintain ISO 9001:2015 certification
  • Establish quality objectives and KPIs and report quality performance, trends, risks, and recommended actions to leadership
  • Identify systemic issues, prioritize process improvements, and verify effectiveness
  • Coordinate responses to customer quality inquiries, Corrective Action Requests, nonconformances, and quality concerns
  • Ensure quality documentation, certifications, inspection records, test results, and other deliverables are complete and provided to customers
  • Incorporate customer quality commitments into program execution and verify completion before acceptance and delivery
  • Incorporate customer requirements into subcontracts, purchase orders, statements of work, and supplier quality clauses
  • Define supplier expectations for processes, documentation, inspection, testing, configuration control, traceability, reporting, and acceptance
  • Assess supplier capability, technical competency, quality performance, and risk; establish scorecards and monitor performance
  • Conduct audits, source inspections, and surveillance; review inspection, test, acceptance, and quality records
  • Require and verify root-cause analysis, corrective action, closure, and effectiveness for nonconformances
  • Establish and administer nonconformance management processes
  • Lead Corrective and Preventive Action activities and track actions to closure
  • Analyze quality data for systemic trends and recurring failure modes
  • Coordinate quality execution across functional teams and establish deliverables, milestones, and dependencies
  • Track quality commitments and escalate missed milestones, unresolved issues, and resource constraints
  • Provide training and guidance on quality processes, customer requirements, subcontractor quality expectations, and continuous improvement
  • Escalate significant quality risks affecting contractual commitments, customer satisfaction, safety, schedule, or product performance

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality management, business administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
  • Experience supporting simulation, aerospace, defense, or other complex hardware/software products
  • Experience serving as a primary quality contact for customers
  • Experience supporting external certification audits
  • ISO 9001 lead auditor training or certification, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, or a related quality credential
  • Quality Management System knowledge
  • Knowledge of software, hardware, simulation, and systems integration quality processes
  • Knowledge of contractual, regulatory, cybersecurity, export-control, configuration-management, and documentation requirements
  • No direct people-management responsibilities; individual-contributor role

Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary
  • Company performance-based profit sharing
  • 401k
  • 100% employer paid health benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance plans
  • No relocation reimbursement provided