AS9100 Quality Leader & QMS Owner (On-Floor)

Your Talent Team; Dubuque (IA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Your Talent Team is seeking a Quality Manager to own the AS9100 QMS and drive continuous quality across production and administration. This role leads internal and external audits, manages corrective actions, and ensures deliverables like PPAPs and first article inspections meet customer requirements.

You will balance hands-on inspection with coaching on the floor, monitor metrics like customer returns and supplier performance, and partner with Production, Engineering and Purchasing to sustain a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, quality or related field.
• Minimum 3+ years of quality experience with AS9100 audits.
• Hands-on experience with PPAPs and first article inspections.

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 and reinforce expectations.
• 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, ensuring timely completion and effectiveness.
• Serve as the primary point of 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

AS9100 knowledge

QMS management

Audits

8D/problem solving

Cross-functional leadership

Training & coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Quality

Tools

Dimensional inspection

Laser scanning

PPAP process

Job description

Your Talent Team is seeking a Quality Manager to own the AS9100 QMS and drive continuous quality across production and administration. This role leads internal and external audits, manages corrective actions, and ensures deliverables like PPAPs and first article inspections meet customer requirements.

You will balance hands-on inspection with coaching on the floor, monitor metrics like customer returns and supplier performance, and partner with Production, Engineering and Purchasing to sustain a