Supplier Quality Specialist - Machining (R6584)

What you'll do: • Conduct supplier qualification, risk assessments, periodic performance reviews, supplier audits, source inspections, and approved-supplier status across the machining commodity supply base.

• Ensure supplier requirements are effectively flowed down and that suppliers comply with applicable quality management system, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements.

• Escalate significant supplier-quality risks and direct SCARs, supplier recovery efforts, and capability-improvement plans that could affect product quality, delivery, mission readiness, or program execution.

• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams to address supplier producibility, design-for-manufacturability, process capability, technical execution, and quality risks.

• Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices that strengthen supplier capability, product quality, delivery performance, and supply-base resilience.

Required qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or another related technical discipline.

• At least 5 years of relevant experience.

• Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and/or ISO 9001 quality-management systems, as well as aerospace and defense supplier-quality requirements.

• Demonstrated proficiency in root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving methods, including 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone analysis.

• Experience with supplier qualification, supplier development, PPAP, and First Article Inspection processes, including AS9102 requirements.

• Understanding of ITAR, EAR, DFARS, and other requirements applicable to aerospace and defense suppliers.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration, executive communication, and supplier relationship-management skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.

• Experience using ERP/MRP systems.

• Ability to travel to Shield AI manufacturing locations and supplier sites domestically and, as needed, internationally—up to approximately 20% of the time.

Preferred qualfiications: • Aerospace or defense industry experience

• Hands on machining and inspection experience.

• ASME GDTP certification Technologist, Senior, or equivalent.

• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Manager (CQM), or equivalent quality certification.

• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

• Experience leading supplier-quality functions in a high-growth aerospace, defense, autonomy, robotics, or advanced-manufacturing environment.

• Experience supporting the production and qualification of complex electromechanical, electronic, precision-machined, composite, or avionics hardware.