Lead Quality Engineer
Ontic · Chatsworth, CA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $120k–$140k
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Ontic (aerospace & defense) in Chatsworth, CA. As Lead Quality Engineer at Ontic, you'll play a key role in ensuring our aerospace products meet the quality, customer and regulatory standards they depend on.
- They ask for
- 7+ years
- Tools it names
- Root cause, AS9100, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Base pay
- $120k–$140k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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and applicable regulatory standards, including internal, customer and regulatory audits.
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We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!
About Ontic Chatsworth
Our 114,000 sq ft Chatsworth facility in Los Angeles specializes in electronic and electro-mechanical aerospace products, supporting critical systems including airborne radar, cabin and cockpit lighting, flight controls, engine and environmental controls and pilot controls.
Behind those products is a team solving complex technical and operational challenges every day. With specialist manufacturing and testing capabilities on site, Chatsworth combines decades of aerospace expertise with the opportunity to keep improving how we deliver for our customers.
Join the team and your work will contribute directly to the reliability and availability of systems used across civil and military aviation around the world.
The opportunity
As Lead Quality Engineer at Ontic, you'll play a key role in ensuring our aerospace products meet the quality, customer and regulatory standards they depend on. You'll provide technical leadership across quality engineering activities, helping the team resolve complex issues while maintaining product conformity and compliance.
You'll work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and customers, leading activities across nonconformance management, First Article Inspections, process validation and corrective action. You'll also help identify opportunities for continual improvement through quality data, structured problem solving and strong quality systems.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on quality engineering expertise with leadership, helping strengthen quality performance while supporting the reliable aerospace products our customers depend on.
What you'll be doing
- •Lead and support Quality Engineers, helping prioritize workloads, resolve complex issues and deliver quality objectives.
- •Oversee Material Review Board and nonconformance activities, ensuring issues are dispositioned, documented and resolved effectively.
- •Lead customer quality and RMA investigations, coordinating containment, root cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- •Oversee process validation and First Article Inspection Reports in accordance with applicable customer, regulatory and AS9102 requirements.
- •Lead corrective and preventive action activities and use quality data to identify trends, risks and continual improvement opportunities.
- •Support compliance with AS9100, customer
What you'll bring
- •7+ years of quality engineering experience within aerospace or another regulated manufacturing environment.
- •Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and AS9102 requirements.
- •Experience with Material Review Board activities and nonconformance management.
- •Experience leading root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action methodologies.
- •Knowledge of process validation and quality management systems.
- •The ability to work cross-functionally and provide technical leadership on complex quality and compliance issues.
- •Desirable: American Society for Quality (ASQ) certification.
Why Ontic?
At Ontic, we're specialists in keeping critical aircraft flying. Our work supports civil and military aviation around the world, giving established aircraft products the long-term support they need to remain safe, reliable and available.
But it's our people who make that possible. We're a growing, global team where you're trusted to take ownership, encouraged to challenge how things have always been done and supported to develop your career as our business grows.
We believe in embracing the challenge - working together to solve complex problems and create opportunities for our customers, our business and each other.
Benefits at Ontic
At Ontic, we're committed to supporting our people to thrive - at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development and financial security, while giving everyone the opportunity to share in our success.
- •Goal Share bonus program - everyone at Ontic is automatically enrolled, giving us all the opportunity to share in our success
- •Paid volunteering time - giving you time to support a cause or community that matters to you
- •24/7 wellbeing support - confidential support available through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- •Employee discounts - access to discounts and offers across a range of retailers and services
- •Learning and development - opportunities to build your skills, develop your career and grow with Ontic
- •Employee referral program - rewarding you for introducing great people to Team Ontic
- •Comprehensive medical insurance
- •Competitive PTO, holiday pay and sick leave
- •401(k) plan - with up to 4% company match
- •9/80 work schedule - where applicable
Ready to embrace the challenge?
If this sounds like the kind of opportunity where you could make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and see where a career with Team Ontic could take you.
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