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Job overview
A growing aerospace organization seeks a Quality Manager to lead its Quality Management System and drive quality excellence across the business. The role oversees compliance with aerospace quality standards, audits, inspections, and continuous improvement. The manager partners with customers, suppliers, operations, and executive leadership while developing quality personnel.
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Job Title: Quality Manager
Location: Chatsworth, CA
Pay Range: $95,000 - $100,000 Base plus up to $15,000 Annual Bonus
A growing aerospace organization is seeking an experienced Quality Manager to lead its Quality Management System (QMS) and drive quality excellence across the business. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for ensuring compliance with aerospace quality standards, leading audits, overseeing inspections, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
If you have experience managing AS9100/AS9120 quality systems, leading audits, developing quality teams, and partnering with customers and suppliers, we'd love to speak with you.
What is the Job?
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Lead and continuously improve the AS9100/AS9120 and ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS)
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Manage quality operations including receiving, source, delegated, first article, and final inspections
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Drive corrective actions and root cause investigations using methodologies such as 8D, FMEA, Fishbone, and 5-Why
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Lead customer, supplier, internal, and certification audits
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Monitor and improve key quality metrics, supplier performance, and customer satisfaction
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Oversee nonconforming materials, CAPA programs, and risk-reduction initiatives
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Partner with Operations, Purchasing, Customer Service, Compliance, and Executive Leadership
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Coach, mentor, and develop quality personnel
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Lead continuous improvement efforts to improve quality, efficiency, and compliance
What is Needed?
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Aerospace quality experience
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Experience with AS9100 and/or AS9120 standards
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Quality Management System (QMS) ownership or leadership experience
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Internal and external audit experience
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Corrective Action and Root Cause Analysis experience
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Supplier Quality and Customer Quality experience
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Experience interpreting engineering drawings and GD&T
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Knowledge of AS9102 First Article Inspection requirements
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Leadership or supervisory experience within a quality organization
Preferred Qualifications
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ASQ certifications (CMQ/OE, CQE, CQA, or CQI)
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AS9100 Lead Auditor certification
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AS9100/AS9120 Internal Auditor certification
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Aerospace manufacturing or aerospace distribution experience
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Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA, and continuous improvement experience
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AS9102 First Article Inspection training
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Counterfeit prevention training (AS5553 / AS6174)
Benefits
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401(k) with company match
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Medical and dental insurance
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Vision insurance
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Company-paid life insurance
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Long-term disability coverage
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Paid time off
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Paid holidays
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Annual bonus opportunity
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to take ownership of the quality function within a growing aerospace organization and make a direct impact on quality performance, customer satisfaction, compliance, and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with leadership, customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams while helping shape the future of the organization.
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How this job compares
Set against the 868 open Quality Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95–100K/yr
- California median$130–173K/yr47 salary ranges
- US median$120–176K/yr500 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $98K, is 37% below the California median midpoint ($155K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 54 open Quality Manager jobs in California and 868 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Jacobs3 open
- Lockheed Martin3 open
- Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense2 open
- Experience
- Quality Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (756 postings).
- Education
- 313 of the 868 open Quality Manager jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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