Sr. Quality Manager, Assurance & Regulatory Compliance

BARNES; Bristol (CT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Barnes Aerospace is seeking a Sr. Quality Manager, Assurance & Regulatory Compliance to lead the enterprise assurance program and strengthen regulatory, certification, and Quality-system compliance across our global aerospace portfolio.

This role provides independent assessment of QMS effectiveness and drives escalation of systemic risks while partnering with site Quality leaders, Operations, and functional teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading internal-audit programs across multiple sites.
• Strong knowledge of AS9100/AS9110 and Nadcap requirements.
• Proven ability to govern regulatory compliance within aerospace quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise assurance programs, audit planning, and reporting across sites.
• Establish and harmonize enterprise regulatory controls and documentation standards.
• Monitor audit trends, certification status, and systemic risk indicators for leadership review.
• Oversee regulatory audit readiness for aviation authorities, customers, and Nadcap.
• Provide escalation and root-cause analysis for significant findings and corrective actions.
• Coach and develop a community of internal auditors across the enterprise.

Skills

Internal audits

Regulatory compliance

QMS effectiveness

Auditor calibration

Job description

Barnes Aerospace is seeking a Sr. Quality Manager, Assurance & Regulatory Compliance to lead the enterprise assurance program and strengthen regulatory, certification, and Quality-system compliance across our global aerospace portfolio. This role provides independent assessment of QMS effectiveness, establishes consistent audit and regulatory-governance practices, and drives timely escalation and resolution of systemic risks. The successful candidate will partner with site Quality leaders, Operations, and functional teams to ensure that lessons learned, corrective actions, and compliance expectations are consistently applied across the organization.

Remote in the US with 20-30% travel.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead the enterprise assurance program, including risk-based internal-audit planning, common audit methodology, auditor qualification and calibration, audit reporting, and assessment of QMS effectiveness across multiple sites.
• Establish enterprise regulatory-compliance requirements and lead the harmonization of common regulatory controls across sites. Partner with QMS & Process Excellence to develop and maintain aligned documentation and implementation practices for shared requirements while ensuring site-specific manuals, certificates, and procedures remain appropriate to each site's approvals and operating scope.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards for audit planning, execution, reporting, corrective-action follow-up, and verification of effectiveness.
• Monitor site compliance health, audit trends, certification status, significant findings, and systemic risk indicators; provide clear reporting, recommendations, and escalation to executive leadership.
• Provide enterprise oversight for AS9100, AS9110, Nadcap, customer, and applicable regulatory requirements; maintain awareness of relevant regulatory and industry changes and coordinate their effective integration into the Quality Management System.
• Support governance of aviation-authority approvals, certificates, capability limitations, and related compliance controls, as applicable to Barnes Aerospace operations.
• Lead enterprise certification and regulatory audit readiness activities; coordinate support for significant customer, certification-body, aviation-authority, and Nadcap audits.
• Provide independent review and enterprise support for significant findings, escapes, and compliance events, including containment, root-cause and corrective-action quality, product-impact assessment, effectiveness verification, and cross-site learning.
• Identify and escalation systemic Quality and regulatory risks directly to the Global VP Quality; ensure risk mitigation actions have clear ownership, timing, and verification.
• Partner with QMS & Process Excellence, Supplier Quality, site Quality Managers, and Operations leaders to ensure audit results, regulatory changes, and lessons learned drive practical improvements to enterprise processes.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise community of qualified internal auditors; provide coaching, calibration, and development to improve audit depth, consistency, and process-based assessment capability.
• Build effective working relationships with Site Quality Managers and Site General Managers while respecting site ownership of daily Quality execution, local resourcing, and site performance.
• Travel domestically and internationally as required, anticipated at approximately 20-30% of the time.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Quality, regulatory, manufacturing, or engineering experience in a complex aerospace manufacturing or maintenance environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading internal-audit programs, certification readiness, regulatory compliance, or Quality-system assurance activities across multiple sites, functions, or business units.
• Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and/or AS911