Quality Systems TPM: Cost of Quality Leader

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Ashville (OH); On-site; USD 143,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Ohio seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Quality to make quality outcomes measurable and tied to dollars. You will own COPQ, build cost-aware quality systems, and enable cross-functional accountability.

You will develop quantitative models, drive quality gates, partner with engineering, production, supply chain, and government stakeholders, and maintain reproducible analysis workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building quality systems and COPQ frameworks from scratch.
• Ability to drive cross-functional quality issue resolution across teams.
• Experience interfacing with government quality oversight (DCMA or equivalent).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and own mechanisms linking quality, defects, root cause, and cost impact.
• Own cost-of-quality trending, resolution rate, and improvement velocity.
• Drive cross-team resolution across quality engineering, production, supply chain, and design.
• Own schedule and financial performance of all quality-driven decisions.
• Create KPIs connecting quality metrics to program cost, schedule, and delivery.
• Drive qualification decisions with cost and schedule data to accelerate production.
• Use quantitative models to identify patterns before they become systemic.
• Prepare technical docs, analyses, and briefings for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain reproducible analysis pipelines with version control and scalable workflows.

Skills

Technical program management

Quality engineering

Cost-of-Quality

Cross-functional leadership

Statistical analysis

Supply chain awareness

Government quality oversight

Security clearance

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Scripting

Version control

SPC software

Job description

Anduril Industries in Ohio seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Quality to make quality outcomes measurable and tied to dollars. You will own COPQ, build cost-aware quality systems, and enable cross-functional accountability.

You will develop quantitative models, drive quality gates, partner with engineering, production, supply chain, and government stakeholders, and maintain reproducible analysis workflows.