Director, Quality

Director Quality

Compensation: $175000$210000 equity
Location: El Segundo CA
Work Policy: Onsite
Level: Level 6
Hiring Count: 1
Core KPIs: Quality-system development AS9100 and NADCAP readiness production yield prevention of customer escapes root-cause resolution and quality-team development

Who we are

Rangeview is on a mission to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America. We exist to break the legacy manufacturing trap by reinventing critical production for the twenty-first century. Through advanced software deep automation breakthroughs in materials science and modern financing strategies Rangeview rewrites both the cost curve and the power structure of making metal parts.

Whats in it for you

As the Director of Quality you will be the primary architect of Rangeviews technical quality reliability and compliance ecosystem. You will build and scale the organization systems and processes required to ensure Rangeviews hardware consistently meets rigorous customer industry and regulatory requirements.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels. You will define the long-term quality roadmap build a world-class team lead certification efforts and work directly with engineering manufacturing operations customers and executive leadership to improve yield prevent escapes and resolve complex technical issues.

You will ultimately own the how behind Rangeviews commitment to product quality and manufacturing reliability.

What youll do

• Serve as the leader accountable for the Quality organization and the primary point of ownership for product reliability compliance and certification activities.
• Establish the organizational structure and recruit the personnel required to build a world-class quality team capable of supporting reliable high-volume manufacturing.
• Develop and scale Rangeviews quality-management systems processes standards and operating procedures.
• Lead certification and compliance efforts for applicable industry and customer standards including AS9100 ISO 9001 NADCAP and related requirements.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal state local contractual and regulatory requirements including FAR and DFARS requirements where applicable.
• Define the Quality organizations strategy objectives operating roadmap and performance metrics in support of company and production targets.
• Develop and justify departmental budgets headcount plans capital-expenditure proposals and long-term investment strategies.
• Manage executive communications and cross-functional relationships across engineering manufacturing operations supply chain and leadership.
• Develop clear and objective quality and reliability success criteria for products processes equipment and production systems.
• Establish process controls inspection strategies quality gates and measurement systems that can scale across sites product types and organizations.
• Drive improvements in production yield throughput scrap rework defect rates and customer escapes.
• Lead root-cause investigations corrective and preventive actions and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Own the resolution of process failures and ensure corrective actions address the ultimate root cause.
• Build systems that proactively protect personnel safety product quality and customer reliability.
• Lead customer supplier regulatory and certification audits as required.
• Establish effective systems for nonconformance management material review first-article inspection calibration metrology and configuration control.
• Develop and monitor quality KPIs analyze technical data and use objective findings to drive cross-functional decisions and improvement initiatives.

What youll need

• Bachelors degree in an ABET-accredited engineering discipline.
• 7 years of experience in manufacturing mechanical electrical test reliability or quality engineering within aerospace automotive industrial or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
• 5 years of experience directly managing engineers or technical quality teams.
• Demonstrated experience building scaling or leading a quality organization in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of production quality process controls corrective actions root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Experience aggregating and analyzing technical and production data to make objective decisions and drive cross-functional improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to improve and scale production throughput yield reliability and quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical information to executive leadership customers auditors and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading high-impact technical investigations and resolving complex product or process failures.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving systems processes and organizational needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated experience implementing or maintaining compliance with AS9100 and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Experience leading an organization through AS9100 certification or recertification.
• Experience with NADCAP certification or special-process accreditation.
• Knowledge of AS9102 first-article inspection requirements.
• Experience with nonconformance material review board CAPA supplier quality and customer-quality systems.
• Strong understanding of warehouse-management manufacturing-execution and quality-management systems.
• Experience selecting implementing or scaling WMS MES or QMS platforms.
• Experience with metrology inspection calibration and measurement systems.
• Experience supporting aerospace defense automotive or other high-reliability hardware programs.
• Experience managing supplier-quality programs and supplier corrective actions.
• 2 years of experience in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing departmental budgets capital-expenditure proposals and resource allocation.
• Lean Six Sigma or similar continuous-improvement experience.

Additional requirements

• Must be able to work onsite in El Segundo California.
• Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
• Must be able to support manufacturing customer supplier and audit activities based on business needs.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is:

Level 6: $175000$210000 annually equity

Salary is based on demonstrated candidate experience qualifications level market conditions and business considerations.

Benefits and perks

Rangeview offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance

Compliance

Rangeview is a DDTC-registered ITAR-compliant business. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicants must be a:

• U.S. citizen or U.S. national
• U.S. lawful permanent resident
• Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157
• Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158

Applicants may also be considered if they are eligible to obtain the required authorization from the U.S. Department of State.

Rangeview is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on merit qualifications and business needs and will not be influenced by any legally protected status.

Whats in it for you

As the Director of Quality you will be the primary architect of Rangeviews technical quality reliability and compliance ecosystem. You will build and scale the organization systems and processes required to ensure Rangeviews hardware consistently meets rigorous customer industry and regulatory requirements.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels. You will define the long-term quality roadmap build a world-class team lead certification efforts and work directly with engineering manufacturing operations customers and executive leadership to improve yield prevent escapes and resolve complex technical issues.

You will ultimately own the how behind Rangeviews commitment to product quality and manufacturing reliability.

Director Quality

Compensation: $175000$210000 equity
Location: El Segundo CA
Work Policy: Onsite
Level: Level 6
Hiring Count: 1
Core KPIs: Quality-system development AS9100 and NADCAP readiness production yield prevention of customer escapes root-cause resolution and quality-team development