Quality Engineering Lead

The role

The Quality Engineering Lead will build and lead the Quality Engineering department. You will work across design, manufacturing, materials and processes, and operations to define quality systems and certifications.

What you will do

• Build and lead the Quality Engineering department
• Design and implement the quality management system
• Lead the company through ISO 9001 and AS9100 certification
• Define quality control processes and procedures from incoming material through final acceptance
• Integrate quality requirements into production processes and workflows
• Establish supplier quality requirements including source inspection and first article inspection
• Stand up the core quality toolkit including nonconformance, corrective action, and root cause analysis
• Identify bottlenecks and use production data to improve throughput and quality
• Partner with design and manufacturing teams to solve problems

Required qualifications

• Quality engineering experience in aerospace, automotive, composites, or another complex hardware manufacturing environment
• Hands-on experience establishing facility certifications such as ISO 9001, AS9100, and/or Nadcap
• Experience with composite materials and processes, including the inspection methods used to verify them
• Experience building and leading a quality engineering team
• Working knowledge of core quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, root cause analysis, and first article inspection
• The judgment to put structure in place where it helps, without slowing down the team doing the work
• Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR requirements

Nice to have

• Standing up quality for a new facility or a greenfield production line
• Scaling composite production from prototype to rate
• Supplier quality experience across a growing, multi-tier supply base
• ASQ certification (CQE or CMQ/OE)

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
• PTO and paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch (office)
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR requirements
• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Depart

About the company

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The team has aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.