Senior Manager Supplier Quality
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead supplier-quality activities across aerospace and defense suppliers. You will establish priorities and execution plans, develop quality leaders and engineers, oversee supplier qualification and audits, manage quality risks and corrective actions, and improve supplier-quality processes, systems, analytics, and performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
- At least 7 years of relevant experience
- 2–5 years of leadership or people-management experience
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- Root cause analysis
- 8D
- 5 Whys
- Fishbone analysis
- Supplier qualification
- Supplier development
- PPAP
- First Article Inspection
- AS9102
- ITAR
- EAR
- DFARS
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Outlook
- ERP
- MRP
- Ability to travel up to approximately 20%
Responsibilities
- Develop the supplier quality team
- Establish supplier-quality priorities, resources, staffing, workload, and execution plans
- Develop Supplier Quality leaders and engineering personnel
- Oversee supplier qualification, risk assessments, performance reviews, audits, and source inspections
- Ensure supplier compliance with quality, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements
- Escalate supplier-quality risks and direct corrective-action and supplier-recovery efforts
- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams
- Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity