Production Quality Leader — Defense Tech & IC Systems

Anduril Industries; Ashville (OH); On-site; USD 126,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Quality Manager to lead a team of quality engineers delivering high-quality, reliable products for Intelligence Systems. You will partner with production, engineering, and program teams to establish robust processes, drive improvements, and ensure sustained quality across a portfolio of products.

The role emphasizes on-floor leadership and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate has deep manufacturing quality experience, knowledge of FMEA/APQP, and the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• U.S. citizenship is required for contractual obligations.
• Experience leading a quality team impacting production delivery or quality.
• Knowledge of PCBA, harnessing, mechanical structures, systems integration, power/battery, radar, vision systems, networking.
• Experience translating quality requirements into test/measurement system development and manufacturing variance testing.
• FMEA, APQP, MSA, GR&R, and GD&T knowledge.
• Understanding manufacturing processes and documentation controls.
• Ability to read technical drawings and quality requirements/SOWs.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and configuration management.
• Strong ownership mindset with project leadership from start to finish.
• Analytical skills for data mining and metrics generation, and familiarity with RCCA, NCRs, CAPA, MRB.
• Eligibility to obtain/maintain active U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice and leader for production quality and all quality-related functions.
• Lead and manage a team to champion continuous improvement and drive quality readiness for production scaling.
• Set daily/weekly priorities and promote best-in-class quality tools and processes; ensure safety on the production floor.
• Drive production readiness through design reviews, process development, verification/validation, and qualification of processes and parts.
• Clarify and resolve performance ambiguities affecting quality and reliability goals.
• Oversee incoming, in-process, and end-of-line quality control.
• Own elimination of product risk by reducing process contribution to quality and reliability.
• Lead RCCA, NCR, CAPA, and MRB activities and share lessons learned.
• Develop health data analysis and metrics to measure quality performance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.
• Collaborate with production, program management, deployments, sourcing, and chief engineers.
• Work on the production floor with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Quality leadership

Team leadership

Manufacturing quality

Data analysis

Quality improvement

Education

Bachelors in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

MatLab

JMP

Minitab

Jira

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Quality Manager to lead a team of quality engineers delivering high-quality, reliable products for Intelligence Systems. You will partner with production, engineering, and program teams to establish robust processes, drive improvements, and ensure sustained quality across a portfolio of products.

The role emphasizes on-floor leadership and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate has deep manufacturing quality experience, knowledge of FMEA/APQP, and the