Sr. Quality Manager – Corporate

Job Type

Full-time

Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Sr. Quality Manager – Corporate for ADDMAN’s Metals business serves as the enterprise quality leader for all Metals manufacturing sites, including Metal Additive and Precision Machining. This role is responsible for defining, standardizing, and governing ADDMAN’s Quality Management System (QMS) across all Metals facilities. Working through a dotted-line relationship with site Quality Managers, this role ensures consistent application of quality processes, tools, and systems while driving compliance, execution, and continuous improvement.

The Sr. Quality Manager provides oversight for enterprise audit readiness, contract compliance, product lifecycle quality, and customer-facing quality engagements. This position also acts as the primary liaison between customers, suppliers, and internal teams on quality matters and promotes a culture of proactive quality, risk-based thinking, and operational excellence.

This position requires U.S. person status in accordance with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Essential Job Functions

Enterprise Leadership & Governance:

• Serve as the Corporate Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) for ADDMAN’s Metals business, ensuring alignment to customer, regulatory, and internal requirements across all sites.
• Define, standardize, and govern enterprise-wide quality processes, tools, and procedures in partnership with site Quality Managers (dotted-line leadership).
• Own the enterprise quality governance framework, including standardized KPIs (e.g., COPQ, escapes, audit performance) and conduct regular quality performance reviews.
• Develop, standardize, and deploy Quality Management System (QMS) frameworks aligned with ISO 9001, AS9100, and NADCAP requirements.
  
  

Compliance, Audit, And Risk Management

• Lead enterprise audit strategy, including preparation, execution, follow-up, and closure for customer, registrar, and internal audits.
• Ensure consistent application of risk-based thinking, product safety, traceability, counterfeit prevention, and customer flow-down requirements.
• Develop and implement standardized internal audit programs.
  
  

Quality Improvement & Issue Resolution

• Drive continuous improvement of site-level quality systems through structured assessments, standardization, and targeted support.
• Provide hands-on support for critical quality improvement initiatives and corrective actions to accelerate execution timelines.
• Ensure consistent and effective Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) processes across all facilities (8D, DMAIC, or equivalent).
• Standardize and improve practices related to inspection, FAI, nonconformance management, MRB processes, and supplier quality.
• Serve as the escalation point for critical customer quality issues.
  
  

Communication & Leadership

• Represent ADDMAN Metals in customer-facing quality engagements, including audits, escalations, and performance reviews.
• Prepare and deliver data-driven reports and presentations to executive leadership.
• Influence, coach, and support site Quality leaders without direct authority, building alignment and fostering a unified quality culture.
  
  

Requirements

SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Expertise in aerospace and defense quality systems, including AS9100, ISO 9001, and NADCAP.
• Proven ability to design, standardize, and govern multi-site Quality Management Systems (QMS).
• Strong influencing skills and ability to drive alignment in a matrixed environment.
• Confident customer-facing presence for audits, escalations, and performance communications.
• Analytical, data-driven mindset with strong problem-solving capability.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present effectively at the executive level.
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and ability to drive enterprise-level initiatives.
  
  

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in aerospace or other high-regulation manufacturing environments.
• Proven leadership experience in AS9100-certified organizations.
• Strong experience leading customer and registrar audits.
• Deep knowledge of AS9100 Rev D and ISO 9001; NADCAP experience preferred.
• Experience across the full product lifecycle (design, manufacturing, inspection, test).
• Strong RCCA capability (8D, DMAIC, or equivalent).
• Experience in nonconformance management and MRB processes.
• Corporate or multi-site quality leadership experience preferred.
  
  

Work Environment

• Position is based at one of ADDMAN’s Metals facilities: Statesville, NC; St. Louis, MO; or Baltimore, MD.
• Requires 25% to 50% travel.
  
  

Physical Demands

• Typically sits, grasps items, and performs keyboarding for frequent operation of a computer
• Stand, walk, bend, reach, or otherwise move about occasionally.
• Lift, move, or otherwise transfer items up to 30 lbs. occasionally.
• Occasional exposure to typical machine shop physical hazards
• Travel by air or car occasionally
• Ability to accomplish the physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
  
  

Safety And Policy Practices

Each employee must be knowledgeable about standard safety policies and procedures and adhere to them while supporting the organization's goals and objectives and recognizing the Company’s need to achieve its business objectives. Each employee is responsible for complying with the company's hazardous waste disposal procedures.

Affirmative Action

ADDMAN Engineering is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. All terms and conditions of employment will be administered without regard to an individual’s sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

NOTE: This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties of this position may change from time to time, and the employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. Addman Engineering reserves the right to add, delete, or modify these duties and responsibilities at its discretion. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Employment is at-will, and nothing in this job description is intended to create or imply a contractual relationship or alter the at-will status of the employee.

Salary Description

$140,000-$160,000 Depending on experience