Why Join Threadlock Precision?
Threadlock Precision has recently acquired R&S Machining and now operates as a Threadlock Precision company. Threadlock Precision is a rapidly growing engineered component manufacturing organization serving leading aerospace and defense customers, including OEMs and Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers. Backed by the financial strength of D. E. Shaw Group we are actively committing to:
- our people and a strong culture with career development and learning opportunities
- expanding our capabilities
- investing in new equipment
- focusing on commercial strategies to support long-term growth and meet increasing demand across complex, high-precision manufacturing programs.
We are currently hiring a Quality Manager at our plant located in St. Louis, Missouri and just north of Arnold, Missouri. The Work We Do Matters! The Work You Do Will Matter! Our products support the defense industrial base and ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment.
How You Will Make a Difference
As the Quality Manager, you will lead the facility’s quality function while remaining actively involved in the day-to-day work required to maintain product conformity and an effective Quality Management System. This includes supporting audits, reviewing quality documentation, investigating nonconformances, leading corrective actions, addressing customer concerns, and working directly with production and inspection teams.
This working-manager role combines quality-system leadership with hands-on problem solving throughout the manufacturing operation. You will serve as the primary quality representative for the facility while partnering with customers, auditors, suppliers, engineering, operations, programming, and inspection personnel to prevent quality issues, improve manufacturing performance, and ensure compliance with customer, aerospace and defense, and internal requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Management System and Compliance
- Lead, maintain, and continuously improve the site’s Quality Management System in accordance with AS9100, ISO 9001, customer requirements, and applicable regulatory and contractual requirements.
- Ensure quality procedures, work instructions, forms, records, and supporting documentation remain current, effective, and properly controlled.
- Plan, coordinate, and support internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits.
- Manage audit findings and ensure corrective actions are completed effectively and within established timelines.
- Monitor changes to customer, industry, and regulatory requirements and incorporate applicable changes into site processes.
- Ensure product identification, traceability, record retention, calibration, configuration control, and other quality-system requirements are consistently maintained.
Customer Quality and Product Conformance
- Serve as the primary quality contact for customers and represent R&S during customer quality reviews, audits, investigations, and performance discussions.
- Review customer drawings, specifications, purchase-order requirements, quality clauses, and contractual requirements to ensure they are understood and incorporated into manufacturing and inspection processes.
- Oversee the preparation, review, and submission of First Article Inspection documentation in accordance with AS9102 and customer requirements.
- Manage customer complaints, returns, escapes, corrective-action requests, and quality-related communications.
- Ensure nonconforming product is appropriately identified, documented, segregated, reviewed, and dispositioned.
- Coordinate with customers and internal stakeholders regarding deviations, concessions, waivers, and material-review activities.
Corrective Action and Continuous Improvement
- Lead structured root-cause analysis and corrective-action activities involving customer complaints, internal nonconformances, audit findings, supplier issues, scrap, rework, and recurring process failures.
- Ensure corrective actions address underlying causes, are implemented effectively, and are verified for sustained results.
- Analyze quality performance data to identify trends, risks, recurring defects, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with operations, engineering, programming, and inspection teams to improve process capability and prevent defects at the source.
- Promote the use of preventive quality methods, risk-based thinking, process controls, and lessons learned throughout the organization.
Leadership and Department Management
- Provide leadership, direction, and development for quality engineering and inspection personnel.
- Establish clear expectations, priorities, responsibilities, and performance standards for the quality organization.
- Partner with the Inspection Lab Manager to ensure inspection resources, equipment, programming capability, and priorities support production and customer requirements.
- Evaluate staffing, training, equipment, software, and capital needs for the quality function.
- Support employee development through coaching, technical training, cross-training, and succession planning.
- Build a culture in which quality concerns are communicated openly, investigated objectively, and resolved collaboratively.
Supplier and Operational Quality
- Support supplier qualification, monitoring, performance evaluation, corrective action, and approved-supplier requirements.
- Work with purchasing and operations to address supplier-related material, processing, documentation, and certification issues.
- Participate in contract review, quoting, new-product introduction, process planning, and production-readiness activities.
- Ensure quality requirements are clearly transferred from customer documentation into routers, inspection plans, work instructions, and production processes.
- Support control plans, PFMEAs, inspection planning, measurement strategies, and other risk-reduction activities.
- Provide timely escalation of significant product, customer, compliance, or delivery risks to site and company leadership.
Quality Metrics and Reporting
- Establish and monitor meaningful quality metrics, including customer escapes, internal nonconformances, scrap, rework, corrective-action effectiveness, audit performance, supplier quality, and first-pass yield.
- Provide regular quality-performance updates to site and company leadership.
- Use data to prioritize improvement initiatives and allocate quality resources.
- Maintain visibility into open quality issues and ensure assigned actions are completed on time.
Basic Qualifications
- At least seven (7) years of quality experience within aerospace, defense, precision machining, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
- At least three (3) years of experience leading quality, inspection, or quality-engineering personnel.
- Experience with AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality standards and preparing for and leading internal, customer, and third-party audits.
Preferred Qualifications (in addition to Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience in an aerospace and defense precision CNC machining environment.
- Experience with AS9100.
- Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Six Sigma, or similar professional certification.
- Experience working with customer portals and aerospace quality systems such as Net-Inspect or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with CMM inspection, CMM programming, calibration systems, and advanced dimensional measurement methods.
- Experience supporting special-process requirements, supplier quality, or NADCAP-controlled processes.
Skills and Competencies
- Experience managing customer complaints, nonconforming material, corrective actions, and root-cause investigations.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Understanding of precision CNC machining, manufacturing processes, inspection methods, and product traceability.
- Strong written, verbal, organizational, analytical, and leadership skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, auditors, employees, suppliers, and leadership.
- Strong knowledge of aerospace quality systems, customer requirements, and precision-manufacturing quality practices.
- Ability to balance customer, compliance, production, cost, and delivery requirements without compromising product conformity.
- Strong problem-solving and root-cause-analysis capability.
- Ability to lead difficult quality discussions objectively and constructively.
- Sound judgment and the confidence to stop or contain work when product conformity is at risk.
- Ability to establish priorities, manage multiple issues, and follow actions through completion.
- Hands-on, collaborative leadership style with a strong presence on the manufacturing floor.
- Commitment to accountability, continuous improvement, and defect prevention.
EEO Statement
Threadlock Precision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
This position requires compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations. As such, candidates must be a “U.S. Person” as defined by applicable law (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or asylee/refugee).
Pay: $95,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
