Divisional Quality Manager

Divisional Quality Manager

Job Locations

US-CA-Los Angeles

ID

2025-17462

Overview

Divisional Quality Manager

Location : Americas (US, Canada, Mexico)

Business Unit : Aerospace & Energy

Position Summary

Element is seeking a results-driven Business Unit Quality Manager to lead quality strategy and execution across ~20 materials testing labs in the Americas. This role is critical in ensuring product quality testing meets the highest aerospace standards, enabling regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.

As part of the business unit (BU) leadership team, you'll shape and deploy quality programs that support test reliability, consistency, and lab readiness and drives business growth, operational performance, customer satisfaction, and EBITDA improvement. You'll champion a strong quality culture, guiding local quality leaders, driving standardization, and engaging with aerospace primes, auditors, and accreditation bodies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent execution of the Quality Management System (QMS) aligned with ISO / IEC 17025, AS9100, Nadcap and Nuclear standards.
• Lead quality strategy across the BU with a strong focus on product testing performance and compliance.
• Drive lab readiness for audits and certifications; liaise with OEMs, regulatory bodies, and customers.
• Guide and develop site-level quality teams; promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Improve key metrics including First Time Right (FTR) and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) through data-driven quality initiatives.
• Standardize testing processes across labs to reduce risk and enhance data integrity.
• Establish and implement applicable measurements / metrics for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers / employees to make sound quality decisions.
• Use data analytics and quality tools to identify improvement opportunities, coach employees in problem-solving, and lead teams in effective corrective actions.
• Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data, forecast trends, propose solutions and drive process improvements.
• Collaborate with HR and operational leaders to inspire, develop, and retain quality talent across the business unit.

Skills / Qualifications

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to 'Make tomorrow safer than today'.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming "the world's most trusted testing partner".

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following : age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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