Be more than just an employee number! Join Terran Orbital, a leader in innovation, manufacturing, and operations in the satellite industry. We are a pioneer in the miniaturization of space technologies and the delivery of responsive space solutions. We are a unique, fast-growing, and trusted team focused on quickly and economically designing, building, launching, and operating state-of-the-art satellites for advanced mission constellations.

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Director, Quality to join our growing team. Reporting to the VP of Safety& Mission Assurance, the Director of Quality will be responsible for building and leading a team of Quality professionals. Effective collaboration with procurement, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, and program teams is critical to the role.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for successfully leading and developing a team of high-caliber quality professionals
• Maintain responsibility for succession planning, organizational and talent development
• Drive advanced product quality planning throughout the product maturity cycle
• Application of root cause analysis, lean/six sigma methods, and corrective actions
• Benchmarking and adopting industry best practices to drive state-of-the-art quality management standard work
• Teaming with operations and supply chain to drive counterfeit parts avoidance and prevention, mistake and error proofing, and lean manufacturing initiatives
• FRACAS and failure analysis
• Assist in working towards AS9100 and other recognized quality standards
• Apply principles of quality science and other qualitative & quantitative methods to cultivate and partner in driving performance to contract, quality, cost and schedule, customer satisfaction, and continuous quality improvement throughout the program lifecycle
• Collaborate with various QMS elements and other support functions and customers to meet the various quality, cost, and schedule commitments