Quality Director

Director, Quality

Published 10.10.2025

Company: Safran Cabin ·
Job field: Quality ·
Location: Garden Grove, California, United States ·
Contract type: Permanent ·
Contract duration: Full-time ·
Required degree: Bachelor s Degree ·
Required experience: More than 8 years ·
Professional status: Professional, Engineer & Manager ·
Spoken language(s): English Fluent ·
Salary range: $140,950 - $221,490

Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip. Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Director, Quality you ll play a pivotal part on our Quality team. Safran Cabin pledges to offer its customers first class quality of delivered goods and service in continuous compliance with applicable international aerospace regulations and standards.

Ensuring the sustainable safety, quality, reliability, and performance of Safran Cabin products and service to enhance customer confidence, and making Safran Cabin their primary supplier and partner.

• Directs the Quality department staff, including managers, inspectors and other Quality personnel.
• Complies with safety rules and procedures and remains alert for unsafe conditions. Addresses unsafe conditions before putting people or property at risk.
• Ensures that the repair station complies with the appropriate local, state and federal requirements.
• Serves as Accountable Manager as the designated management representative to all customers for the relevant Quality System.
• Responsible for all repair station operations.
• Trains all personnel on any new, updated or required standard operating procedures.
• Establishes the requirements for initial and recurrent training for all personnel involved in the maintenance, preventive maintenance and/or alteration of civil aviation articles.
• Ensures that all revisions to the repair station manual are noted and coordinated with the FAA.
• Maintains revised list of effective pages of the repair station manual.
• Ensures adequate fire-fighting equipment is available at the repair station.
• Establishes the criteria for hiring personnel for positions responsible for maintaining, supervising or inspecting maintenance or alterations of civil aviation articles.
• Ensures the repair station continues to meet the requirements for providing adequate housing, facilities, equipment and personnel appropriate to the ratings of the repair station.
• Administers corrective action program and determines the appropriate actions to be taken when deficiencies are discovered or reported.
• Initiates work outside the repair station s fixed location as delineated in the repair station manual.
• Implements and communicates the requirements and procedures of the repair station manual.
• Reports to management on the performance of the quality system and recommends any needs for improvement.
• Conducts 1:1 discussions, annual performance reviews, mid-year reviews, and has input to salary adjustments.
• Proactively addresses any employee relations issues to enhance morale and productivity.
• Coaches, mentors and trains personnel to keep the department working effectively.
• Enforces and adheres to policies as outlined in employee handbook.
• Provides technical guidance on questions regarding quality systems and procedures.
• Acts as the liaison with all federal officials.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor s degree or higher
• Experience: 10 years  minimum experience in Quality or similar positions, with at least 8 years  experience in a leadership role. Minimum 5 years  experience in aerospace environment.
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficient knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Other
  
  Skills:
  
  Knowledge of Aerospace and Defense industry and its regulations;
  Expertise in QMS and process management;
  Leadership capability especially in embedding a shared vision and empowering people;
  Knowledge of Quality tools (measures in production, nonconformance, tracking, calibration, ...);
  Receptiveness and ability to foster teamwork;
  Practical oral and writing communication skills;
  Organization and management skills;
  Integrity and exemplarity in all circumstances;
  Ability to…