Quality Control Manager

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are looking for a Quality Control Manager to lead one of our production quality control teams at our factories in the Costa Mesa area.

This role will manage multiple supervisors with leads and inspectors for the quality control team. You will partner with heads of production, product quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, and our production teams to ensure quality controls are executed as per expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Drive a safety first culture and mentality with your team and partners.
• Manage our quality control resource plan for the sites and processes, including resource planning, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Ensure that employees are trained & qualified on work instructions, procedures, and hands-on functions, documenting training records.
• Establish performance management and quality controls / insights using dashboard data, production priorities meetings, and collaboration with data reporting teams.
• Develop and maintain Quality control standards, ensuring consistent application through staff training.
• Drive resource alignment and inspector capabilities for: Incoming/Receiving Material Inspection, In-process inspection, End-of-line Inspection, material containment, and MRB inspection operations.
• Drive quality process improvement (QPIs) and investment in manufacturing execution system (MES) and quality management systems (QMS) procedures.
• Collaborate with other quality control managers & product quality engineers to ensure consistent execution of the quality controls.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering in the creation of inspection plans for incoming materials, parts, and assemblies from suppliers and monitor their compliance.
• Utilize Lean Principles to improve key KPIs/Processes such as On-Time Delivery and Product Quality.
• Propose, develop and implement quality assurance policies and procedures and review with the product quality engineers.
• Partner with Development Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Product Quality Engineering to support the new product introduction and prototype part process.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations or related field of study
• 5+ years of progress Quality and/or Regulatory experience within the Aerospace industry
• 3+ years of experience working in a Management role
• Basic knowledge of budgetary process
• Strong understanding of QMS & AS9100/ISO requirements and/or FAA/EASA regulations
• Prior exposure to the manufacture of electronic components for Aerospace application
• Write and update standard operating procedures (SOP) and understanding of FAIR, COC, production metrics
• Perform data collection and statically analysis on the data to drive decisions
• Strong attention to detail, observation, organizational, and leadership skills
• In-depth knowledge of Quality Improvement and Lean Manufacturing methodologies
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership and decision-making abilities in a production environment
• Experience with Calibrated equipment (calipers, micrometers, CMM, Faro arm, OMM, etc.)
• Knowledge & understanding of dimensioning and tolerancing as per Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• A strong understanding of PCBA manufacturing processes, soldering and testing methods.
• Experience producing J-STD-001, IPC-A-610 or equivalent
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings (wire diagrams, work instructions, CAD)
• Analyze inspection results and provide feedback to production, manufacturing engineering, and quality engineering departments.
• Experience with communicating with suppliers and cross functional teams
• U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access controlled data