AS9100 Quality Manager: QMS Leader & On‑Floor Coach

Management Performance Associates; Dubuque (IA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Management Performance Associates seeks a Quality Manager to own and drive the Quality Management System (QMS) and AS9100 compliance across production and administrative processes. You will lead corrective actions, customer responses, and supplier quality programs while maintaining rigorous quality standards on the shop floor and in documentation.

The role emphasizes proactive quality leadership, timely audits, and robust inspection activities to sustain continuous improvement and risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field (engineering, quality, or management) required.
• 3+ years of quality checks of parts and participation in AS9100 audits preferred.
• Hands-on inspection experience is a real 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 promptly.
• Perform hands-on inspection of parts as needed to verify quality standards.
• Coach production employees to improve quality awareness and execution.
• Lead corrective actions (8D, CARs, SCARs) across departments with timely completion.
• Serve as primary contact for customer quality issues and responses.
• Oversee supplier quality and on-time delivery, driving supplier improvements.
• Drive improvements in key quality metrics like customer returns, scrap, and supplier performance.
• Support technical validation activities like dimensional inspection and laser scanning.
• Ensure inspection processes (incoming, in-process, final) are effective and followed.

Skills

QMS ownership

AS9100 knowledge

Audits (internal/external)

8D/SCARs

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Management Performance Associates seeks a Quality Manager to own and drive the Quality Management System (QMS) and AS9100 compliance across production and administrative processes. You will lead corrective actions, customer responses, and supplier quality programs while maintaining rigorous quality standards on the shop floor and in documentation.

The role emphasizes proactive quality leadership, timely audits, and robust inspection activities to sustain continuous improvement and risk