Quality Control Supervisor

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Ashville, OH · Manufacturing : Quality Control : Production Operations

This role is for a Quality Control Supervisor at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The supervisor will lead a team of quality inspectors, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and reliable products. Responsibilities include training inspectors, developing quality control standards, analyzing data, managing inspection operations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires experience in quality control, leadership, and knowledge of quality management systems within the aerospace, defense, or automotive industries.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and mentor a team of quality inspectors, ensuring the consistent delivery of quality performance for various product lines.
  2. Train team members on work instructions, procedures, and hands-on inspection techniques, maintaining accurate training records.
  3. Develop and maintain quality control standards, ensuring their consistent application through effective staff training.
  4. Author and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to inspection and quality control processes.
  5. Drive through ambiguities and uncertainties in inspection methods, inspection order execution, and planning to provide inspectors with tactical guidance and direction for execution.

Skills

Required

  • Quality control standards
  • geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
  • calibrated measurement equipment
  • data systems utilization
  • advanced product quality planning (APQP)
  • Quality Management Systems & AS9100 requirements
  • Aerospace, Defense, or Automotive industries experience
  • Management or supervisory experience
  • attention to detail
  • observation skills
  • organizational skills
  • leadership skills
  • Quality Improvement methodologies
  • Lean Manufacturing methodologies
  • problem-solving skills
  • analytical skills
  • communication skills
  • interpersonal skills
  • decision-making abilities in a production environment

Nice to have

  • Technical degree in a related quality/mechanical/aerospace engineering field
  • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Improvement Associate, or equivalent
  • IPC-A-610 or IPC-A-620 Certification
  • 6 Sigma
  • TQM
  • TPS
  • Lean
  • Low Rate Production methodologies
  • inspection of Electrical and Electronic Components (Power Supplies, PCBs, wire-harnesses)
  • data systems
  • QMS software
  • automated data collection tools
  • generating reports
  • data visualization
  • data queries
  • drafting and revising standard operating procedures
  • quality troubleshooting guides
  • Manufacturing processes and their related systems (Jira, MES, ERP, Teamcenter, CAD)
  • auditing processes and procedures in a manufacturing environment
  • validation and testing sub-assemblies and components
  • selecting, buying, qualifying, and implementing inspection equipment
  • working with suppliers
  • Sourcing and Supplier Quality Engineering teams
  • computer-aided design (CAD) software
  • inspection data management software

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of progressive Quality and/or Regulatory experience within the Aerospace, Defense, or Automotive industries.
  • 3+ years of experience in a Management or supervisory role.
  • Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems & AS9100 requirements.
  • Prior exposure to the manufacture of electronic components for Aerospace applications.
  • U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access controlled data.