Sr. Quality Supervisor (Onsite)

This role is onsite in San Marcos, Texas and requires a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee).

About the role

As Senior Quality Supervisor at Collins Aerospace, you will lead and develop a team of Quality Inspectors across three shifts, ensuring products, processes, and inspection activities consistently meet customer, regulatory, engineering, and company quality requirements. You will provide hands-on leadership, drive quality performance and continuous improvement, and serve as a key liaison between Quality, Materials, Operations, and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Establish clear expectations for inspection accuracy, productivity, attendance, safety, and adherence to quality procedures.
• Ensure inspection activities comply with AS9100, FAA requirements, customer specifications, engineering drawings, and applicable aerospace standards.
• Oversee receiving, in-process, final, first article, and source inspection activities.
• Ensure inspectors are properly trained and qualified in the use of inspection methods, tools, equipment, drawings, specifications, and applicable quality procedures.
• Lead or support investigations involving nonconforming material, escapes, customer complaints, and internal quality issues.
• Support root-cause analysis, corrective action, CAPA, 8D, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate quality priorities and staffing across all three shifts to ensure consistent standards and effective handoffs.
• Conduct regular shift meetings and communicate quality performance, issues, priorities, and expectations to inspection personnel and leadership.
• Participate in internal, customer, and regulatory audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings.
• Drive standardization of inspection practices across all shifts and eliminate variation between inspectors and work centers.
• Address employee performance issues, provide coaching, conduct performance reviews, and recognize high-performing team members.
• Travel up to 20%.

Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading people.
• Strong knowledge in AS9100 and aerospace regulatory requirements.
• Experience with GD&T, engineering drawings, and manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading root cause analysis and corrective action activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ certifications.
• Experience with CMM, optical inspection, or other automated inspection technologies.
• Continuous improvement experience.
• Experience with NADCAP requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health: fertility and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives: wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand: virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons: child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts: second opinion program.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $86,800 – $165,200 USD. The range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including role, function, responsibilities, work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.