
Senior Quality Manager
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Job overview
The Senior Quality Manager leads the Quality organization and drives its vision and quality culture in an aerospace organization. The role ensures compliance with customer and industry requirements, maintains or improves the Quality System, including AS9100 and NADCAP, and serves as the primary customer contact for quality concerns. It also oversees corrective actions, process control, continuous improvement, and quality data reporting.
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Full job description
Company Description
STS Aerospace is a world-leading provider of reliable, top-quality products for fluid conveyance, serving commercial and military aircraft and the energy, space and marine industries. The depth and breadth of our engineering expertise enables us to design, build and customize fixtures and tooling that will meet the needs and solve the problems you are experiencing now and prevent issues from emerging in the future.
Job Description
The Senior Quality Manager is the leader of the Quality organization and is responsible for driving and executing the vision of the organization. The Senior Quality Manager is responsible for driving a quality culture in an Aerospace organization and ensuring compliance to customer and industry requirements. The Senior Quality Manager is accountable for maintaining and/or improving all aspects of the Quality System, including AS9100, NADCAP. In addition, this position is to be the prime customer contact related to quality concerns.
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Culture
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Embrace and behave in accordance with Kreisler culture and values
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Communicate effectively throughout the organization in a manner that supports STS Aerospace's culture and values
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Compliance to Standards & Specifications
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Ensure company meets requirements as supplied by internal procedure, customer or industry standards
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Corrective Actions
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Maintain root cause and corrective action system that eliminates duplicate nonconformance by effectively implementing corrective actions
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Process Control
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Implement tools necessary to ensure process control and comply with customer requirements such as PPAP, standard work, SPC, KPC, etc
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Continuous Improvement
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Coordinate, participate and lead continuous improvement efforts in collaboration with Production
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Other
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Any other tasks, duties or responsibilities requested by your supervisor
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Manage data collection, analysis and reporting of quality data such as rework, scrap and cost of quality
Qualifications
College degree preferred, at least 5 years quality experience in manufacturing
Additional Information
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Exceptional multi-tasker- Working with multiple people in multiple department on multiple projects
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Enthusiastic- days will be hard and I need to know you will recovery from stressful situations quickly
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Good at leading a team & relationship building - ability to lead various employees on quality focused events such as dives, process mapping, etc. Ability to get along and work with all types of personalities, whether they frustrate you or not
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Gumption - spirited initiative and resourcefulness, answers won't be handed to you, you need to find them. Must be able to adapt to a changing environment while working both individually and as a member of a team
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Accountability without responsibility - No one reports to you but you're accountable for everything
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Self-motivated busybody - must love to be busy all the time
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Confident yet humble - will be dealing with customers must have ability to speak confidently on what you know
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Curiosity - must be curious, ask questions, be able to communicate across the company and want to learn
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Ability to deal sensitively with confidential material
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.
At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation - including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career's website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)
How this job compares
Set against the 925 open Quality Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$120–175K/yr520 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Quality Manager jobs in New Jersey and 925 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (793 postings).
- Education
- 329 of the 925 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 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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