Quality Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time | On-Site

Salary: $100,000–$135,000 DOE We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead manufacturing operations within a regulated aerospace manufacturing environment. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for production performance, staffing, scheduling, quality compliance, delivery, cost control, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have experience managing technical manufacturing teams in a high-mix production environment and working within strict aerospace quality and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities: Lead daily manufacturing operations and production personnel. Manage production schedules, capacity, WIP, labor utilization, and on-time delivery. Identify production bottlenecks and implement recovery plans. Develop and coach supervisors and production teams. Monitor productivity, overtime, scrap, rework, and manufacturing costs. Partner with Quality and Engineering to maintain aerospace process and quality requirements. Support Nadcap and AS9100 compliance and audit activities. Drive Lean manufacturing, 5S, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. Ensure accurate ERP/MRP production and labor reporting. Maintain strong safety practices within a chemical-processing manufacturing environment.

Qualifications: 5+ years of manufacturing/operations leadership experience. Aerospace, defense, precision manufacturing, or other regulated manufacturing experience. Experience with special manufacturing processes, surface treatment, chemical processing, plating, or related operations is strongly preferred. Knowledge of Nadcap and/or AS9100 environments preferred. Strong production planning, scheduling, capacity, WIP, labor-utilization, and on-time-delivery experience. Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement experience. Highly PreferredAerospace plating or metal-finishing experience. Hard chrome plating experience. Nadcap Chemical Processing experience. AS9100 experience. High-mix, low-volume manufacturing experience.