# Senior Manager, Supplier Quality (R6220)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 150,000-230,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is actively seeking candidates with deep expertise in manufacturing and quality methodologies, paired with a relentless drive to enable supplier success and strengthen mission-critical operations.

The Senior Manager, Supplier Quality (R6220) will lead a supplier quality team responsible for supplier qualification, development, performance management, and quality assurance across Shield AI's aerospace and defense supply base.

Responsibilities:

- Develop the supplier quality team responsible for supplier qualification, surveillance, performance management, and corrective-action activities across Shield AI's global aerospace and defense supply base.

- Establish supplier-quality priorities, allocate resources, and translate functional objectives into staffing, workload, and execution plans that support product, program, and organizational needs.

- Develop Supplier Quality leaders and engineering personnel through coaching, performance management, succession planning, workforce development, and technical mentorship.

- Oversee supplier qualification, risk assessments, periodic performance reviews, supplier audits, source inspections, and approved-supplier status across complex aerospace hardware, commodities, and manufacturing processes.

- Ensure supplier requirements are effectively flowed down and that suppliers comply with applicable quality management system, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements.

- Escalate significant supplier-quality risks and direct SCARs, supplier recovery efforts, and capability-improvement plans that could affect product quality, delivery, mission readiness, or program execution.

- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams to address supplier producibility, design-for-manufacturability, process capability, technical execution, and quality risks.

- Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices that strengthen supplier capability, product quality, delivery performance, and supply-base resilience.

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or another related technical discipline.

- At least 7 years of relevant experience, including 2–5 years of leadership or people-management experience with direct responsibility for Quality Engineering and/or Supplier Quality Engineering personnel.

- Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and/or ISO 9001 quality-management systems, as well as aerospace and defense supplier-quality requirements.

- Demonstrated proficiency in root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving methods, including 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone analysis.

- Experience with supplier qualification, supplier development, PPAP, and First Article Inspection processes, including AS9102 requirements.

- Understanding of ITAR, EAR, DFARS, and other requirements applicable to aerospace and defense suppliers.

- Demonstrated people-leadership capability, including coaching, performance management, organizational development, and building high-performing technical teams.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration, executive communication, and supplier relationship-management skills.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.

- Experience using ERP/MRP systems.

- Ability to travel to Shield AI manufacturing locations and supplier sites domestically and, as needed, internationally,up to approximately 20% of the time.

## Skills

### Required
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- root-cause analysis
- structured problem-solving
- supplier qualification
- PPAP
- First Article Inspection
- ITAR
- EAR
- DFARS
- Microsoft Office
- ERP/MRP systems

### Nice to have
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
- Certified Quality Manager (CQM)
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- experience leading supplier-quality functions in a high-growth aerospace, defense, autonomy, robotics, or advanced-manufacturing environment

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