Aerospace Machining Supplier Quality Lead

Speedrun Talent Network; Seattle (WA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is seeking a qualified professional to lead supplier quality across machining suppliers, ensuring compliance with QMS, regulatory, and contractual requirements. You will conduct audits, escalation, and continuous improvement to reduce risks and strengthen supplier performance.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve producibility and process capability issues, while traveling up to 20% to supplier sites and Shield AI locations as

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality-management systems, aerospace/defense supplier-quality requirements.
• Proficient in root-cause analysis and structured problem solving (8D, 5 Whys, fishbone).
• Experience with supplier qualification, supplier development, PPAP, and First Article Inspection (AS9102).
• Understanding ITAR, EAR, DFARS, and related aerospace/defense requirements.
• Cross-functional collaboration and executive communication; supplier relationship management.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to ~20%.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct supplier qualification, risk assessments, periodic performance reviews, supplier audits, source inspections, and approved-supplier status across the machining commodity supply base.
• Ensure supplier requirements are effectively flowed down and that suppliers comply with applicable quality management system, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements.
• Escalate significant supplier-quality risks and direct SCARs, supplier recovery efforts, and capability-improvement plans that could affect product quality, delivery, mission readiness, or program execution.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams to address supplier producibility, design-for-manufacturability, process capability, technical execution, and quality risks.
• Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices that strengthen supplier capability, product quality, delivery performance, and supply-base resilience.

Conocimientos

Root-cause analysis

Structured problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

ERP/MRP experience

MS Office proficiency

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Quality/Manufacturing

Herramientas

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is seeking a qualified professional to lead supplier quality across machining suppliers, ensuring compliance with QMS, regulatory, and contractual requirements. You will conduct audits, escalation, and continuous improvement to reduce risks and strengthen supplier performance.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve producibility and process capability issues, while traveling up to 20% to supplier sites and Shield AI locations as