Aerospace QMS Architect & Compliance Lead

AST & Science LLC; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AST SpaceMobile is seeking an experienced Compliance Manager to design and lead the implementation of a unified Quality Management System across all company locations. You will harmonize site-specific practices into an audit-ready framework and guide the organization through initial compliance.

This role suits someone who has led AS9100/ISO 9001 certification in a regulated manufacturing environment and wants ownership over building quality culture from the ground up, including CAPA and internal

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Aviation/Aerospace, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of quality/compliance experience in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Direct experience leading or playing a central role in an organization achieving initial AS9100 or ISO 9001 certification.
• Strong working knowledge of AS9100 Rev D, ISO 9001, and core quality tools (root cause analysis, CAPA, FMEA, internal auditing).
• Demonstrated ability to standardize processes across multiple locations or business units.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to train and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly between company sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end effort to bring the company to a high level of compliance to corporate process and procedures.
• Design a single, unified Quality Management System that can be consistently deployed and audited across all company sites.
• Develop the certification roadmap, timeline, and readiness milestones, and report progress to executive leadership.
• Conduct a gap analysis against AS9100/ISO 9001 requirements at each site and prioritize remediation efforts and see where it makes sense to align to an international body and where to not.
• Work with the Quality organization to reconcile differing site-level processes, documentation, and quality practices into common, controlled procedures.
• Establish standardized document control, forms, work instructions, and record-keeping practices company-wide.
• Partner with site leaders and operations teams to ensure new procedures are practical and adopted, not just written.
• Audit & Continuous Improvement
• Plan and lead internal audits across all sites; track findings through corrective and preventive action (CAPA) to closure.
• Serve as primary point of contact for the external certification body during stage 1/stage 2 audits and surveillance audits.
• Own the nonconformance and CAPA process, driving root-cause analysis and effectiveness verification around compliance issues

Skills

Quality management

Aerospace quality

CAPA

Root cause analysis

Internal auditing

Documentation control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Quality/Aviation or related field

Tools

AS9100 Rev D

ISO 9001

FMEA

QMS software

Job description

AST SpaceMobile is seeking an experienced Compliance Manager to design and lead the implementation of a unified Quality Management System across all company locations. You will harmonize site-specific practices into an audit-ready framework and guide the organization through initial compliance.

This role suits someone who has led AS9100/ISO 9001 certification in a regulated manufacturing environment and wants ownership over building quality culture from the ground up, including CAPA and internal