# Supplier Quality Specialist - Machining (R6584)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 106,000-159,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Shield AI’s Supply Chain Quality team is responsible for global quality oversight across its supplier base.

In this role, you will be responsible for supplier qualification, development, performance management, and quality assurance across the machining commodity supply base.

You will evaluate supplier capability, quality performance, organisational risk, and resource needs to ensure purchased hardware and materials meet Shield AI engineering, customer, regulatory, and quality requirements.

You will partner closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex supplier-quality issues, improve supplier capability, and reduce quality and delivery risk across the supply base.

## Responsibilities:

- Conduct supplier qualification, risk assessments, periodic performance reviews, supplier audits, source inspections, and approved-supplier status across the machining commodity supply base.

- 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.

## Requirements:

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

- At least 5 years of relevant experience.

- 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.

- 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.

## Preferred Qualifications:

- Aerospace or defense industry experience

- Hands-on machining and inspection experience.

- ASME GDTP certification Technologist, Senior, or equivalent.

- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Manager (CQM), or equivalent quality certification.

- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

- Experience leading supplier-quality functions in a high-growth aerospace, defense, autonomy, robotics, or advanced-manufacturing environment.

- Experience supporting the production and qualification of complex electromechanical, electronic, precision-machined, composite, or avionics hardware.

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## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- aerospace or defense industry experience
- machining and inspection experience
- ASME GDTP certification
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- supplier-quality functions in a high-growth aerospace, defense, autonomy, robotics, or advanced-manufacturing environment
- production and qualification of complex electromechanical, electronic, precision-machined, composite, or avionics hardware

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