Aerospace Supplier Quality Program Leader

Chromalloy Gas Turbine, LLC; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-one benefits

401(k) with employer matching

Paid time off and holidays

Quarterly and annual bonuses

Job summary

Chromalloy Gas Turbine, LLC is seeking a Supplier Quality Program Leader to drive the enterprise supplier quality program across aerospace manufacturing, repair, PMA, and contract-maintenance operations. You will lead qualification, audits, and performance management while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

You will build a risk-based vendor segmentation, govern the approved supplier list, and ensure compliance with FAA/EASA/CAAC and NADCAP requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace quality, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, or regulatory compliance.
• 5+ years of leadership or program-management experience in aerospace manufacturing, MRO, repair station, PMA, or supply-chain environments.
• Experience building or leading risk-based supplier qualification, audit, surveillance, and performance‑management programs.
• Hands‑on experience with special processes, first article inspection, supplier corrective action, counterfeit‑parts prevention, and approved supplier controls.
• Working knowledge of FAA Parts 21 and 145, with experience supporting EASA, CAAC, or other aviation authority requirements.
• Ability to influence across sites and functions, communicate with senior leaders, and make disciplined decisions when supplier risk is high.

Responsibilities

• Build, implement, and continuously improve an enterprise supplier quality program for ECRS and PARTS suppliers.
• Create a risk-based supplier segmentation model using part criticality, regulatory requirements, special processes, accreditation, escapes, performance, single-source exposure, and counterfeit risk.
• Own governance of the enterprise approved supplier list, including approval scope, supplier status, qualification, requalification, and disqualification requirements.
• Lead supplier audits, source inspections, first article reviews, special-process assessments, and performance-based surveillance.
• Establish supplier scorecards and executive-level reporting for quality, delivery, responsiveness, audit results, corrective-action effectiveness, and overall risk.
• Lead containment, root cause, corrective action, effectiveness verification, and escalation for systemic or high‑risk supplier issues.
• Integrate FAA, EASA, CAAC, AS9100, AS9120, NADCAP, customer, and counterfeit‑parts prevention requirements into standardized supplier controls.
• Serve as the business process owner for supplier quality workflows in ComplianceQuest, including risk scores, audits, escapes, corrective actions, and dashboards.
• Standardize procedures, forms, audit criteria, data practices, and escalation processes across Chromalloy sites.
• Coach and mentor supplier quality engineers, buyers, auditors, and site quality leaders while influencing suppliers and internal partners across the enterprise.

Skills

Influence across sites

Communicate with senior leaders

Decision making under risk

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain

Master's degree in a related field

Tools

ComplianceQuest

Job description

Chromalloy Gas Turbine, LLC is seeking a Supplier Quality Program Leader to drive the enterprise supplier quality program across aerospace manufacturing, repair, PMA, and contract-maintenance operations. You will lead qualification, audits, and performance management while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

You will build a risk-based vendor segmentation, govern the approved supplier list, and ensure compliance with FAA/EASA/CAAC and NADCAP requirements.