Quality Manager

You’ll be the face of quality for our customers—major players in the aerospace sector—while ensuring compliance with AS9100C and Nadcap standards in a cost-effective way. Your leadership will shape quality processes, from inspection improvements to strategic planning, and you’ll play a key role in staffing for growth, managing budgets, and deploying strategies that deliver measurable results.

Success in this role means reducing internal and external PPM, improving on-time delivery, and leveraging Lean tools to foster accountability and innovation. If you thrive on solving complex challenges, influencing culture, and driving operational excellence, this is your opportunity to lead at the highest level.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a site-wide quality transformation and inspire a culture of excellence.
• Manage and develop a large quality team across Assurance, Engineering, Control, and Calibration.
• Serve as the primary customer interface for quality matters.
• Drive strategic initiatives, KPI improvements, and continuous improvement using Lean principles.
• Oversee budgets, staffing plans, and compliance with FAA and customer requirements.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Expertise in AS9100C and Nadcap standards is preferred
• Proven ability to manage complex quality operations and deliver results.

Capabilities and Success Factors:

• In-depth working knowledge of Six Sigma with the ability to effectively apply all recognized methods and techniques in a manufacturing environment (Green Belt or higher).
• Strong understanding of DMAIC, dFMEA, pFMEA, DOE, Gage R & R, Statistical Process Control (SPC) and lean systems; understanding of PPAP process is desired.
• Strong understanding of key manufacturing principles, such as Statics, Dynamics, Mechanical Design, Thermodynamics, Materials and Heat Transfer
• Possess a mechanical aptitude that would allow for the ability to effectively function as a quality representative at Material Review Board (MRB) level.
• Experience in a machine shop environment is preferred.
• Experience/familiarity with aerospace grade materials and specifications (inconel, titanium, stainless steels), heat treating and case-hardening (nitriding, plasma spray, boron diffusion, etc.) preferred.     
• Ability to both promote and foster a Continuous Improvement culture both internally and at our supplier’s.
• Previous experience in implementing and using Lean tools and methodologies.
• General understanding of Aerospace customer requirements – OEM, FAA and DCMA.
• Excellent computer skills (word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, etc.)
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management.
• Team orientated with the ability to influence others without authority
• Effective communicator – strong written and verbal communication skills is required.
• Ability to travel locally and out of state
• Previous experience presenting to customers in a plus.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: 4-year college degree preferably in Engineering
• Experience: 3-5 years of management experience in Quality Assurance; previous work experience in an aerospace manufacturing (machine shop) environment is preferred.
• Travel:  less than 10%.
• Language:  English
• Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a “U.S. Person”, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [email protected]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [email protected].

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