Job Position Overview The Quality Manager owns and maintains the company's AS9100D quality management system and serves as the AS9100 Management Representative and primary quality contact for customers and registrars. This is a hands-on, player-coach role in a lean, automation-focused aerospace machining setting: the Quality Manager is responsible both for building and sustaining strong quality systems, documentation, and compliance, and for performing direct inspection of aerospace bushings and other high-precision components. The role suits a methodical, detail-oriented quality professional who has worked within a well-run AS9100 system and is ready to take ownership of one.

The Quality

Manager reports to the President.

Roles and ResponsibilitiesQuality Management System & Compliance

- Serve as the AS9100 Management Representative, owning the quality management system and acting as the primary quality contact during customer and registrar (third-party) audits.
- Maintain and continuously improve the AS9100D QMS, including quality manual, procedures, and controlled documentation, with disciplined document and revision control.
- Plan, schedule, and conduct the internal audit program on a defined cadence, tracking findings to closure.
- Own the nonconformance (NCR) and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) processes, driving genuine root cause analysis and verifying corrective action effectiveness.
- Prepare for and lead management review, producing meaningful quality metrics, trends, and actions.
- Maintain supplier quality oversight, including approved supplier/source list control, supplier performance monitoring, and flow-down of customer quality requirements.
- Manage customer quality requirements and quality clauses, and support customer portals, scorecards, and quality reporting.

Inspection & Verification

- Perform first-off, in-process,



and final inspections of aerospace bushings and other high-precision parts per drawings, inspection control plans, and work instructions, with emphasis on final, complex, and First Article inspections.
- Create and maintain inspection control plans in the ERP system, entering required inspection characteristics based on released drawings and escalating unclear or missing requirements before production release.
- Define and oversee inspection responsibilities delegated to trained operators, ensuring routine first-off and in-process checks are performed under documented control plans with proper training records and sign-off authority.
- Apply defined sampling plans and ensure inspection results are recorded accurately in the ERP system.
- Prepare First Article Inspection Reports (AS9102) when required.

Measurement, Calibration & Documentation

- Use and oversee proper use of precision measuring instruments such as calipers, micrometers, pin gauges, bore gauges, and optical comparators, including overlay charts.
- Own the calibration program, ensuring inspection equipment is controlled, within recall, and accurately recorded in the ERP system.
- Verify raw material and special process certifications against the purchase order, applicable specifications, approved supplier/source lists, and customer requirements.
- Ensure all required quality documents (material certs, process certs, Certificate of Conformance (C of C), FAI when applicable) are complete and attached to shipments that have passed final inspection.

Required Qualifications





- Post-secondary education in a related technical or quality field, or equivalent experience.
- Several years of quality experience in an aerospace or precision machining environment, including hands-on inspection.
- Demonstrated experience working within an AS9100 quality management system, with direct ownership of document control, internal audits, and/or CAPA processes.
- Experience supporting or leading customer and/or registrar audits.
- Strong working knowledge of AS9100D and ISO 9001 requirements.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and GD&T; symbols.
- Experience using precision measuring tools such as calipers, micrometers, gauges, and optical comparators, including overlay charts.
- Familiarity with calibration systems and gage R&R; concepts.
- Proficiency with ERP systems for quality data entry, inspection planning, and record keeping.
- Methodical, detail-oriented, and self-directed, with a demonstrated ability to build and sustain documented systems.

Considered an Asset

- Internal auditor certification (AS9100 / ISO 9001) or Root Cause / CAPA training.
- Experience preparing AS9102 First Article Inspection Reports.
- Experience with First Article, PPAP, or similar approval processes.

Physical Requirements & Work Environment

- Work is performed on a manufacturing shop floor with exposure to machinery, coolant mist, noise, and metal chips; appropriate personal protective equipment is required.
- Requires prolonged periods of standing, along with frequent walking, bending, and reaching at inspection benches and machines.
- Must be able to handle small precision parts and inspection instruments with close, sustained visual attention to fine detail.
- Occasional lifting and moving of parts, trays, or fixtures up to approximately 15 kg (35 lb).

Pay: $60,000.00-$75,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

📌 Quality Manager (Mississauga)
🏢 Turning Tech Aerospace
📍 Mississauga