Aerospace Quality Director

The role

The Aerospace Quality Director will build quality systems, teams, and operating discipline to move parts and assemblies from prototype into production. This role leads the quality function across development, manufacturing, supplier quality, and production readiness.

What you will do

• Build the quality foundation needed for repeatable manufacturing, stronger yields, and fewer escapes.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing to improve design transfer, process readiness, and production execution.
• Lead the systems and team that drive inspection discipline, nonconformance control, corrective action, and supplier quality.
• Influence how production processes are defined, controlled, and improved.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment where quality decisions affect hardware readiness, customer confidence, and operational scale.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, aerospace, or a related technical field; equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience managing a growing department of direct reports responsible for all aspects of product and process quality.
• Significant progressive experience in aerospace quality, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, or quality systems leadership.
• Experience helping move parts, assemblies, or hardware programs from prototype into production.
• Experience building or improving quality systems in a growing manufacturing organization.
• Strong background in inspection planning, process controls, nonconformance management, and corrective action.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to improve quality and production readiness.
• Experience with supplier quality management and supplier issue resolution.
• Strong problem-solving skills, judgment, communication, and ability to drive accountability across teams.
• Ability to work across office, lab, and production environments.
• Ability to support periods of increased workload tied to builds, ramp activity, and issue resolution.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a relevant technical discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• ASQ certification or equivalent quality credential.
• Experience with first article inspection, process validation, control plans, or production quality planning tools.
• Experience in high-growth aerospace, defense, or advanced hardware manufacturing environments.
• Experience building quality organizations during production scale-up.

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Growth opportunities
• Full health benefits (health, vision, dental)
• 401(k)

Before you apply

• May be required to meet export control, ITAR, confidentiality, or site access requirements.
• All final candidates must successfully complete a background check and drug screening as a condition of employment.

About the company

Neon Aero combines start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft using automation and AI-driven tools. The company aims to reinvent how the world flies by reducing barriers to production.