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Description
Job Title: Senior Quality Manager
Location: Everett, WA
Employment Type: Salaried full-time direct employee
Industry: Aerospace
Compensation: $165K - $185K plus performance bonus, plus sign on bonus to help with relo (if out of region)
About the Opportunity:
The Senior Quality Manager is a hands-on aerospace quality leader responsible for stabilizing, improving, and sustaining a highly compliant Quality Management System (QMS) within a demanding, turnaround manufacturing environment. This role leads all aspects of quality execution for an overloaded site, ensuring regulatory compliance, customer confidence, and operational recovery under aggressive delivery and performance constraints.
This position requires deep technical quality expertise, mastery of aerospace standards (AS9100), and advanced proficiency in ERP management (preferrably EPICOR), enabling disciplined execution, data-driven decision-making, and rapid problem resolution. The Senior Quality Manager actively partners with operations and engineering to reduce escapes, stabilize processes, and rebuild a culture of quality accountability while leading and developing inspectors and quality engineers in a high-pressure environment.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
Bring your turnaround and Lean expertise to help this plant of an international organization improve it's processes and customer and AS9100 compliance. Help the approximate 20 person quality team consisting of 4-6 QEs, supervisor(s) and inspectors grow and prosper. Your contributions helping the organization improve this plant's overall quality system will be rewarded handsomely.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the compliance to customer specifications in a build to print business.
- Lead and stabilize the site's Quality Management System (QMS) in compliance with AS9100, customer, regulatory, and internal requirements, particularly in a high-risk, high-backlog environment.
- Serve as the site quality authority during a business and operational turnaround, prioritizing risk, containment, and recovery actions while balancing short-term containment with long-term system improvements.
- Lead advanced root cause analysis and corrective action execution (8D, RCCA, systemic CAPA) to address chronic quality escapes, rework, scrap, and customer complaints.
- Own quality-related ERP execution within Epicor, ensuring accuracy and discipline in nonconformances, corrective actions, inspection records, FAIs, and audit readiness.
- Direct and prepare the site for customer, regulatory, and special process audits (AS9100, customer-specific), ensuring findings are addressed thoroughly and on time.
- Provide hands-on leadership in First Article Inspection (FAI) execution, calibration systems, internal audits, and special process controls to ensure technical rigor and on-time completion.
- Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Program Management to manage competing priorities and protect product integrity under schedule pressure.
- Establish and lead short-interval quality reviews using data, KPIs, and risk-based prioritization to drive rapid corrective decisions.
- Monitor productivity and cost effectiveness of the Quality function; lead initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, COPQ, and bottlenecks impacting delivery.
- Develop, coach, and hold accountable a Quality team operating in a stressed, fast-changing environment; build bench strength and technical depth.
- Champion a culture of compliance, accountability, and ownership, reinforcing that quality is non-negotiable even during recovery situations.
- Ensure full adherence to all company safety, compliance, export control, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring (Requirements):
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality or similar technical discipline.
Min 7 years of progressive quality leadership experience within an aerospace organization, that includes experience helping a plant 'turn around' its quality operations - including stabilizing compliance while improving delivery performance.
- Including a history of leading through ambiguity, make risk-based decisions under pressure, and hold firm on quality standards when delivery demands are high.
- Including strong leadership in corrective action, problem-solving, and continuous improvement track record in complex manufacturing operations.
Min 5 years of AS9100, audit management, customer requirements, and configuration control.
Min 5 years of ERP advanced experience in quality execution
What Sets You Apart:
Quality certification(s)
Lean Six Sigma belt or advanced training
EPICOR ERP system
Experience with ISO9001, ISO13485, AS9100, and NADCAP audits preferred (as applicable).
Ability to interpret complex technical data, write clear and defensible reports, and train teams with varying technical backgrounds.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
Aleron companies; Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, Viaduct, and Aleron's strategic partner, SDI are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.