Chief Quality & Compliance Officer – Aerospace

CubeSpace ADCS; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Generous leave policy

Daily lunch

Job summary

CubeSpace designs and manufactures satellite attitude determination and control systems, where reliability and customer assurance are paramount. The Head of Quality owns QA, compliance, and the path to ISO 9001 and AS9100D certification across the business.

Role includes setting quality standards, training inspectors, auditing processes, and ensuring product release with robust evidence. The successful candidate leads a QA team and partners with Supply Chain on supplier quality, audits and CAPA.

Qualifications

• Engineering, science or quality degree or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
• 8–10+ years in quality within aerospace, space, defence, medical device or comparable high-reliability manufacturing.
• 2–3+ years leading a quality function or team.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, AS9100D, AS9102 and AS5553; root-cause analysis and CAPA.
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications and test data.

Responsibilities

• Total ownership of quality assurance, the QMS and certification.
• Assure development and implementation of QC and inspection processes across departments.
• Independent verification and release of products prior to shipment; maintain Certificate of Conformance.
• Own supplier quality, internal audits and nonconformance management with CAPA.
• Lead and develop the QA team; recruit where needed; foster evidence-driven quality culture.

Skills

Quality leadership

ISO 9001

AS9100D

Regulatory compliance

Auditing

Education

Engineering or science degree

Tools

ERP systems

PLM systems

CAPA tools

Job description

CubeSpace designs and manufactures satellite attitude determination and control systems, where reliability and customer assurance are paramount. The Head of Quality owns QA, compliance, and the path to ISO 9001 and AS9100D certification across the business.

Role includes setting quality standards, training inspectors, auditing processes, and ensuring product release with robust evidence. The successful candidate leads a QA team and partners with Supply Chain on supplier quality, audits and CAPA.