Quality Manager
AMETEK · Goleta, CA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 29 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at AMETEK (industrial) in Goleta, CA. Lead, coach, and develop Quality Assurance and Quality Control personnel to achieve quality objectives and support business needs.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- CAPA, AS9100, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Internal audits, Supplier quality
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$149k.
Median of the low and high ends of 89 live postings that list pay, out of 189 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 188 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$148k, from 87 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 77%
- FMEA 54%
- ✓ Supplier quality 49%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 46%
- ✓ AS9100 43%
- ISO 9001 39%
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at AMETEK
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Full description from AMETEKAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are effectively implemented.
- ✓Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
requirements
are reviewed, communicated, and effectively deployed throughout the organization.
- ✓Support new product introduction, engineering changes, product qualification, First Article Inspection (AS9102), production readiness reviews, and product release activities.
requirements
are clearly defined, communicated, and achieved.
- ✓Oversee incoming inspection activities, supplier nonconformance management, and supplier performance metrics to minimize risk and support operational objectives.
- ✓Ensure quality
requirements
are reviewed during contract review and effectively deployed throughout the organization.
Education and Experience
- ✓Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, or related field.
- ✓Minimum 8 years of quality experience in aerospace, defense, medical device, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
- ✓Minimum 3 years of leadership or management experience, including experience leading and developing personnel.
- ✓Experience maintaining certified Quality Management Systems.
- ✓Position is subject to ITAR restrictions
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The Quality Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, personnel, and systems for PDT. The role leads the AS9100-certified Quality Management System, supports compliance and audit readiness, oversees inspection, calibration, nonconformance, MRB, FAI, and source-inspection activities, and drives continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and quality performance across the organization.
CORE
Quality Management System (QMS)
- •Lead and maintain compliance to the AS9100-certified Quality Management System, ensuring continuous improvement of quality policies, procedures, process controls, document control, CAPA, risk management, training, audits, and nonconformance management.
- •Serve as the site Management Representative and lead certification, customer, regulatory, and internal audits while ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, aerospace, regulatory, and company quality requirements.
- •Develop, monitor, analyze, and report key quality performance indicators including First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, defect rates, nonconformance trends, supplier performance, customer escapes, audit findings, and corrective action effectiveness to drive data-based decision making, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- •Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, cost, delivery, risk reduction, and customer satisfaction.
- •Oversee incoming, in-process, and outgoing quality inspections, final verification, validation, product release activities, Certificates of Conformance, and calibration systems to ensure product conformity and compliance.
- •Conduct and approve First Article Inspections in accordance with AS9102 and product qualification requirements.
- •Review and approve quality-related ECOs and support engineering changes, new product introductions (NPI), production readiness reviews, and manufacturing process controls to ensure quality
Personnel Management
- •Lead, coach, and develop Quality Assurance and Quality Control personnel to achieve quality objectives and support business needs.
- •Establish team priorities, manage performance and workforce development, and promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and quality ownership.
- •Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management to ensure effective quality planning and execution.
Customer Quality
- •Serve as the primary customer interface for quality-related matters, including audits, source inspections, corrective actions, complaints, and quality escapes.
- •Ensure customer quality
Supplier and Customer Quality
- •Partner with Supply Chain to develop, monitor, and improve supplier quality performance through qualification, audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- •Ensure supplier quality
Position criteria
Candidate must demonstrate practical quality leadership in a regulated technical manufacturing environment, strong working knowledge of aerospace quality systems, and the ability to balance strategic QMS leadership with day-to-day QA/QC execution.
Work Conditions include
- •Required to work with hazardous chemicals
- •May be exposed to environment with loud noise and extreme temperatures.
Tools Used
- •UniPoint Quality Management System, including CAPA Management, Nonconformance Management, Audit Management, Training Management, Document Control, Supplier Quality Management, and Quality Metrics Reporting.
- •Oracle ERP System, including manufacturing records, material traceability, inventory management, supplier performance monitoring, work order management, and operational reporting.
- •Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Visio; Power BI and statistical analysis tools preferred.
- •Inspection and measuring equipment such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, thread gauges, pin gauges, surface plate equipment, functional test equipment, CMM reports, and inspection systems.
Benefits
- •Competitive compensation and holiday pay.
- •Comprehensive health benefits and 401(k) plans.
- •Generous paid time off per year