Lead Quality Specialist

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🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Aechelon Technology

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1998

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Defense • Logistics • Consulting

Aechelon Technology is a company that specializes in creating immersive, geo-specific visualization products and solutions to enhance flight simulation and training. The company offers high-quality image and data generation systems to provide unmatched accuracy, frame rates, and latency for mission-critical applications. Aechelon Technology serves clients such as the U. S. military, offering products like Radar Toolkit® (RTK) for secure storage and simulation environments. Their solutions help improve mission rehearsal, situational awareness, and decision-making capabilities using advanced technologies such as multi-spectral rendering and mixed reality training. Founded in 1998, Aechelon Technology has established itself as a leader in military simulation and training systems.

📋 Description

• Own and continuously improve the Quality Management System for Aechelon Technology’s simulation products, programs, and services within Shield AI • Drive quality from development through delivery and support across Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Contracts, and Procurement • Serve as the primary quality liaison for customers, suppliers, and subcontractors • Ensure customer quality commitments flow down to suppliers and subcontractors and are met throughout execution • Maintain QMS policies, procedures, records, and objective evidence • Plan and conduct risk-based internal, program, supplier, and subcontractor audits • Support customer and third-party assessments, including audits required to maintain ISO 9001:2015 certification • Establish quality objectives and KPIs and report quality performance, trends, risks, and recommended actions to leadership • Identify systemic issues, prioritize process improvements, and verify effectiveness • Coordinate responses to customer quality inquiries, Corrective Action Requests, nonconformances, and quality concerns • Ensure quality documentation, certifications, inspection records, test results, and other deliverables are complete and provided to customers • Incorporate customer quality commitments into program execution and verify completion before acceptance and delivery • Incorporate customer requirements into subcontracts, purchase orders, statements of work, and supplier quality clauses • Define supplier expectations for processes, documentation, inspection, testing, configuration control, traceability, reporting, and acceptance • Assess supplier capability, technical competency, quality performance, and risk; establish scorecards and monitor performance • Conduct audits, source inspections, and surveillance; review inspection, test, acceptance, and quality records • Require and verify root-cause analysis, corrective action, closure, and effectiveness for nonconformances • Establish and administer nonconformance management processes • Lead Corrective and Preventive Action activities and track actions to closure • Analyze quality data for systemic trends and recurring failure modes • Coordinate quality execution across functional teams and establish deliverables, milestones, and dependencies • Track quality commitments and escalate missed milestones, unresolved issues, and resource constraints • Provide training and guidance on quality processes, customer requirements, subcontractor quality expectations, and continuous improvement • Escalate significant quality risks affecting contractual commitments, customer satisfaction, safety, schedule, or product performance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality management, business administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience • Experience supporting simulation, aerospace, defense, or other complex hardware/software products • Experience serving as a primary quality contact for customers • Experience supporting external certification audits • ISO 9001 lead auditor training or certification, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, or a related quality credential • Quality Management System knowledge • Knowledge of software, hardware, simulation, and systems integration quality processes • Knowledge of contractual, regulatory, cybersecurity, export-control, configuration-management, and documentation requirements • No direct people-management responsibilities; individual-contributor role

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Company performance-based profit sharing • 401k • 100% employer paid health benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance plans • No relocation reimbursement provided