Director, Manufacturing Quality

Description

The Leidos Mission Assurance organization currently has an opening for the Director of Manufacturing Quality for the Defense Systems Sector, a rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing enterprise. This position reports to the Senior Director of Quality Engineering & Control for Defense. The Director of Manufacturing Quality will lead a growing team of Quality professional across multiple manufacturing facilities in the Defense Sector.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Provide 'hands-on' leadership to the Quality Engineering and Control management teams and to provide efficient support to operations while improving product integrity.
• Partner with Manufacturing Senior Leadership to support and drive scaling initiatives across multiple sites and programs.
• Establish and maintain a quality strategy and culture committed to excellence and Leidos values while enabling rapid manufacturing scaling across numerous Defense Sector programs.
• Direct multiple teams responsible for all aspects of quality (quality assurance, quality engineering, quality control, supplier quality), calibration, and continual improvement for multiple locations.
• Lead quality management across multiple defense production sites, ensuring compliance with ISO 9001, AS9100, AS6500, CMMI-Dev and contract-specific quality requirements.
• Develop, implement, and oversee inspection strategies, including statistically valid inspection sampling plans aligned with customer, regulatory, and corporate standards.
• Establish and track targeted Key Process Indicators (KPIs) to measure product quality, process health, and compliance performance across all assigned sites.
• Analyze KPI trends and inspection data to proactively identify systemic issues, drive root cause investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with site quality teams to standardize inspection practices, auditing methods, and corrective action processes.
• Serve as the primary quality liaison with operations and engineering leadership to ensure contract deliverables meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Provide oversite of internal, customer and third-party quality audits, ensuring site readiness and timely closure of findings.
• Ensure the timely and sustained resolution of internal and external audit findings and requirement escapes by conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective and preventive measures.
• Effectively address escalated quality issues in a timely way.
• Provide coaching, training, and leadership to site-level quality staff, ensuring alignment to the corporate Quality Management System and Defense Systems Sector requirements.
• Drive continual improvement initiatives that enhance product conformity, reduce rework, and strengthen mission assurance within a hardware-oriented Quality Engineering organization.
• Serve as a stakeholder for quality and mission assurance in all aspects of the business lifecycle including new business capture, procurement, program execution, and merger / acquisition.
• Report regularly to senior leadership on inspection results, KPI performance, audit outcomes, and quality improvement progress.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications

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Original Posting : October 14, 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $134,550.00 - $243,225.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.