Lead Quality Systems Engineer - Maritime
Anduril· Quality Reliability & System Safety : Quality Engineering : Quality Systems Engineering
Quonset, Rhode Island, United States$129k - $171kFull-timePosted 6d ago
About the role
Lead Quality Systems Engineer responsible for end-to-end AS9100 quality management across the Maritime Division, with multi-site and multi-product scope, ensuring audit-readiness and certification integrity while driving cross-site harmonization, CAPA, and training.
Responsibilities
- AS9100 Certification Ownership: Own the Maritime Division's AS9100 QMS, including all documentation, internal audit programs, corrective action tracking, and management review processes. Ensure the system remains audit-ready at all times across all sites.
- Multi-Site QMS Architecture: Design and implement a quality management system structure that accommodates multiple manufacturing sites operating under a single or coordinated AS9100 certification scope. Address the complexity that arises when product lines span multiple facilities and when multiple business lines share a single site.
- Audit Preparation and Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for third-party certification body audits, customer audits, and regulatory reviews. Manage audit schedules, coordinate site readiness, and ensure findings are closed on time. Guide the organization through the evolution from a single-site audit scope to a multi-site, multi-product scope.
- Cross-Site Process Harmonization: Establish standardized quality processes, procedures, and documentation practices that work across all division manufacturing sites. Ensure that shared processes meet AS9100 requirements regardless of which site or business line is being audited, while allowing for site-specific procedures where necessary.
- Risk and Gap Analysis: Continuously assess QMS gaps and certification risks as new product lines and sites are brought online. Proactively identify where the expansion of audit scope creates exposure and develop mitigation plans before issues surface in formal audits.
- Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA): Own the division-wide CAPA process. Track nonconformances, drive root cause analysis, and ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified across all sites. Monitor trends to identify systemic issues before they become repeat audit findings.
- Training and Culture: Build quality awareness across the Maritime Division. Develop and deliver training programs that ensure personnel at all sites understand AS9100 requirements, their role in maintaining certification, and the implications of nonconformance in a multi-site environment.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Work across Corporate Quality, site leadership, production teams, and business line leads to ensure QMS requirements are integrated into operational planning. Participate in site battle rhythm meetings and provide regular quality status updates to division leadership.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in quality management within aerospace, defense, or government-contract manufacturing
- Direct experience managing or significantly contributing to AS9100 certification and surveillance audits
- Demonstrated experience with multi-site or multi-scope quality management systems
- Strong knowledge of CAPA processes, internal auditing, and management review requirements under AS9100
- Effective communicator who can work across organizational boundaries and present to leadership
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Skills
Required:AS9100QMS ArchitectureInternal AuditingCAPACross-site Stakeholder Management
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