AS9100 Quality Leader & QMS Champion

Clear Concepts, Inc.; Dubuque (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Concepts, Inc. seeks a Quality Manager to lead the Quality Management System (AS9100) and ensure overall product quality across production and administrative processes.

The role focuses on proactive quality leadership, corrective actions, and maintaining consistent quality standards throughout the organization. Responsibilities include leading internal and external audits, monitoring quality performance, coaching production staff on quality practices, and driving 8D/CAR/SCAR activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or management.
• Three years or more of quality checks of parts.
• AS9100 audits experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the AS9100 Quality Management System, ensuring compliance and effectiveness.
• Lead internal audits and coordinate external audits, including customer and registrar audits.
• Monitor quality performance and address issues impacting product quality in real time.
• Communicate quality performance, risks and significant issues to leadership in a timely manner.
• Perform hands-on inspection of parts as needed to verify quality standards.
• Engage with production employees through brief training and coaching conversations to improve quality awareness and execution.
• Lead and drive corrective actions (8D, CARs, SCARs) across departments.
• Serve as primary contact for customer quality issues and responses.
• Oversee supplier performance, including quality, corrective actions and on-time delivery.
• Own, monitor and drive improvement of key quality performance metrics including customer returns, internal scrap and supplier performance.
• Support or perform technical validation activities such as dimensional inspection and laser scanning as required.
• Ensure inspection processes (incoming, in-process, final) are effective and consistently executed.

Skills

Quality management

Root cause analysis

Audits

Cross-functional leadership

Process improvements

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/quality/management

Job description

Clear Concepts, Inc. seeks a Quality Manager to lead the Quality Management System (AS9100) and ensure overall product quality across production and administrative processes.

The role focuses on proactive quality leadership, corrective actions, and maintaining consistent quality standards throughout the organization. Responsibilities include leading internal and external audits, monitoring quality performance, coaching production staff on quality practices, and driving 8D/CAR/SCAR activities.