The Quality Manager at ADDMAN Advanced Metals – Statesville will serve as the site quality leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS).
Requirements
- Serve as the site Quality SME ensuring alignment of customer, corporate, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead implementation and maintenance of an integrated QMS, compliant with ISO 9001, AS9100 and NADCAP requirements including: Risk-based thinking and product safety, Configuration management and traceability, Counterfeit parts prevention, Customer flow-down compliance
- Champion audit readiness and regulatory compliance including AS9100, ISO, NADCAP, and customer audits
- Maintain and evolve the Quality Manual, procedures, and controlled documentation.
- Lead and manage all internal, customer, and third-party audits from planning through closure.
- Develop and execute risk-based internal audit programs aligned to AS9100 requirements.
- Ensure timely and effective closure of audit findings through structured RCCA methodologies.
- Train and mentor internal auditors and cross-functional audit participants.
- Lead internal audit capability and compliance execution by training and mentoring auditors, driving a proactive audit-readiness culture across the organization, conducting formal contract reviews, and interpreting purchase order quality clauses, aerospace specifications, and OEM requirements to ensure full alignment with customer, statutory, and regulatory standards.
- Serve as the primary customer interface for quality issues, escalations, and performance reviews.
- Review and validate technical data packages including drawings, specifications, and digital product definitions.
- Ensure proper interpretation of GD&T and dimensional requirements.
- Oversee ballooned (bubble print) drawing creation and validation for inspection traceability and FAI readiness.
- Support inspection planning, First Article Inspection, and quality data package development.
- Ensure effective control and disposition of nonconforming material.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering and Operations to embed quality requirements from design through delivery, while supporting production with robust inspection strategies, metrology oversight, and process validation to ensure product conformity and operational excellence.
- Oversee supplier quality performance including audits, qualification, and corrective action management.
- Interface with Supply Chain on supplier RCCA and quality escapes.
- Ensure purchased materials and services meet all contractual and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and monitor quality KPIs including COPQ, escapes, audit findings, and customer satisfaction.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned to cost, quality, and delivery goals.
- Conduct management reviews input and provide executive-level reporting on quality performance.
- Develop and maintain quality documentation, procedures, SOPs, and work instructions.
- Generate quality reports summarizing trends, audit outcomes, RCCA effectiveness, and performance metrics.
- Ensure proper documentation retention aligned with aerospace and regulatory standards.
- Lead and develop the Quality team including Quality Control and Quality Assurance.
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and proactive quality engagement.
- Provide direct leadership of Quality personnel (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) including hiring, training, performance management, and team development, while building a scalable quality organization aligned with business growth.
