Quality Manager - Nondestructive Test (NDT)
Boeing · Mesa, AZ
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $112k–$152k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Boeing (aerospace & defense) in Mesa, AZ. Customers, suppliers, peers and/or partners).
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Base pay
- $112k–$152k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Arizona: typical posted base $100k–$156k. This one lists $112k–$152k.
Median of the low and high ends of 13 live postings that list pay, out of 34 quality engineer openings in Arizona, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 33 other live quality postings in Arizona.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $100k–$165k, from 12 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 65%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 56%
- Supplier quality 53%
- New product launch 47%
- FMEA 41%
- SPC 29%
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This plant: Boeing in Mesa
2 other open roles at this site · 9 people we found in quality roles at Boeing.
- Quality Engineer (Supplier Quality Engineering) · Quality
- Mid-Level Quality Engineer · Quality
Full description from BoeingAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Manages, develops, and motivates a group of roughly 20 direct reports while fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
- ◆Acquires and manages resources to ensure inspections satisfy all customer and technical
and support required commitment dates
- ✓Provides leadership oversight to ensure organizational compliance is maintained in multiple inspection disciplines throughout the product lifecycle from training & certification through inspection, documentation, and record retention.
- ✓NDT Oversight: Ensure compliance to Boeing, Industry, and Customer
requirements
across multiple NDT Methods – Ultrasonic Testing (UT), Radiographic Testing (RT), Eddy Current Testing (ET), Penetrant Testing (PT), Magnetic Particle Testing (MT) through management of tasks such as: method audit surveillances, process control monitoring, Measurement & Test Equipment reviews, asset inventory accountability reviews, technician proficiency & certification reviews.
- ✓Precision Inspection Oversight: Ensure compliance to Boeing, Industry, and Customer
requirements
supporting New and Used part inspections utilizing a wide variety of Measurement & Test Equipment ranging from hand tools to CMMs through management of tasks such as: inspection method surveillances, planning reviews, program control assessments, Measurement & Test Equipment reviews, asset inventory accountability reviews technician proficiency assessments, and area/environment compliance reviews.
- ✓Interface with Operations, Quality, Engineering, regulatory agencies and suppliers/partners to resolve issues impacting component build, test, and delivery. Develops and maintains strategic partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and direct reports
- ✓Monitor group performance against program and functional commitments
- ✓Data Analytics. Analyzes results, metrics and trends to influence team strategy and quality performance
- ✓Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals
- ✓Acts as the initial point of escalation for issues or challenges encountered by the team. Capable of effectively triaging and de-escalating issues with impacted parties
- ✓Change Management leader to collaborate and influence cross-functional partners
- ✓Develops functional excellence for Quality across the supported Programs
- ✓Proactively communicates with leadership team, peers, and customers.
- ✓Keeps others informed by communicating business vision and strategies, program or project status, conducting and participating in leadership meetings, providing presentations and listening to employee concerns and suggestions.
- ✓Creates a culture of continuous improvement by communicating/deploying enterprise best practices and employee engagement to improve cost, quality, delivery, employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction.
- ✓Works with other management partners across organizational and functional boundaries to execute on programs, drive improvements and corrective actions, identify and mitigate areas of risk, and proactively work to increase first time quality.
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
Boeing First-Line Leader Assessment : To be considered for this position you will be required to complete an assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.
Basic
(Required Skills/Experience)
- ✓Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross-functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership”
- ✓More than 5 years of experience in NDI (non-destructive inspection) or NDT (non-destructive test)
- ✓More than 5 years of experience with Quality and/or Manufacturing processes and organizations
- ✓More than 3 years of experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with stakeholders (i.e. Customers, suppliers, peers and/or partners)
- ✓Proficient utilizing the Microsoft Office Suite
- ✓Experience using schematics, blueprints, sketches, manuals, technical documents, written information, verbal information, applicable procedures, codes and ordinances
(Desired Skills/Experience)
- ✓Bachelor’s degree or higher
- ✓Current ASNT Level II or Level III Certification in one or more NDT methods
- ✓Leadership experience with technical employees
- ✓More than 3 years of experience with precision test and measurement devices
- ✓Experience with developing or evaluating cost/price proposals and business cases
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Quality Manager - Nondestructive Test (NDT)
Company
The Boeing Company
Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is seeking an NDT Quality Manager to join and support the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) & Precision Inspection Team in Mesa, AZ!
This Quality Management position is a key member of the leadership team and is located at the Boeing site in Mesa, Arizona. This position is looking for a detail oriented, highly organized change agent to lead a team of Inspection Professionals through the development and implementation of technical strategies to bolster compliance, repeatability, and sustainability within the Quality Organization. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, suppliers and direct reports.
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Conflict of Interest
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process
Drug Free Workplace
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
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