Senior Quality Architect for Aerospace Manufacturing

Ironstead; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Ironstead is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Principal Quality to build the quality operating system for a growing portfolio of precision manufacturing businesses. This role is the senior technical authority for both Quality Management Systems and product quality.

You will establish the standards that allow our businesses to scale without compromising the quality expectations of aerospace, defense, and commercial customers and you will work directly with the people producing and inspecting

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, industrial engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Significant experience leading quality in precision manufacturing or other high complexity production environments.
• Deep working knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, or comparable regulated QMS frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with first article inspection, NCR/MRB, CAPA, root cause analysis, internal auditing, and customer quality.
• Strong knowledge of engineering drawings, GD&T, metrology, measurement systems, and manufacturing process capability.
• Willingness to travel extensively (60-80%) and embed on-site at Ironstead portfolio facilities for extended periods, including some nights/weekends during critical transition windows

Aufgaben

• Author and deploy a unified portfolio Quality Management System (QMS) framework, codifying AS9100/ISO 9001 governance, AS9102 FAI protocols, and multi-site audit standards into a scalable enterprise playbook.
• Upgrade quality infrastructure across newly acquired facilities, identifying systemic operational gaps and executing prioritized CAPAs to eliminate yield risk without compromising delivery schedules.
• Establish enterprise wide standards for document control, configuration management, instrument calibration, supplier quality, and internal audits to maintain compliance across growing network sites.
• Embed automated quality workflows and closed-loop inspection data directly into IronsteadOS, streamlining nonconformance tracking, MRB dispositions, and audit-trail generation.
• Drive network wide quality visibility by establishing real time tracking for customer escapes, first-pass yield, scrap/rework ratios, CAPA resolution velocity, and recurring failure modes.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for high stakes quality escalations, resolving discrepancies between engineering design intent, shop floor process capability, and customer specifications.
• Lead First Article Inspections (AS9102), Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), and MRB dispositions, executing disciplined root cause analysis and 8D corrective actions.
• Evaluate GD&T schemes, datum structures, and measurement uncertainty to de-risk high precision features and CTQ requirements.
• Modernize network metrology strategies, driving advanced CMM programming, automated in-process probing, closed loop gaging, and sampling protocols.
• Deploy SPC, CP/PPFMEAs across key product lines to proactively drive down defect rates and eliminate yield loss.

Kenntnisse

Quality leadership

AS9100 / ISO 9001

First Article Inspection (AS9102)

NCR / MRB / CAPA

GD&T / Metrology

Process capability / SPC

Travel 60-80%

Documentation control

Auditing

Digital QMS / MES / ERP

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, industrial engineering, or related technical discipline

Jobbeschreibung

Ironstead is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Principal Quality to build the quality operating system for a growing portfolio of precision manufacturing businesses. This role is the senior technical authority for both Quality Management Systems and product quality.

You will establish the standards that allow our businesses to scale without compromising the quality expectations of aerospace, defense, and commercial customers and you will work directly with the people producing and inspecting