Director, Quality

Compensation

: $175,000–$210,000 + equity Location: El Segundo, CA Work Policy: Onsite Level: Level 6 Hiring Count: 1 Core KPIs: Quality-system development, AS9100 and NADCAP readiness, production yield, prevention of customer escapes, root-cause resolution, and quality-team development

Who We Are

Rangeview is on a mission to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America. We exist to break the legacy manufacturing trap by reinventing critical production for the twenty-first century. Through advanced software, deep automation, breakthroughs in materials science, and modern financing strategies, Rangeview rewrites both the cost curve and the power structure of making metal parts.

What’s in it for you As the Director of Quality, you will be the primary architect of Rangeview’s technical quality, reliability, and compliance ecosystem.

Requirements

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels. You will define the long-term quality roadmap, build a world-class team, lead certification efforts, and work directly with engineering, manufacturing, operations, customers, and executive leadership to improve yield, prevent escapes, and resolve complex technical issues. You will ultimately own the “how” behind Rangeview’s commitment to product quality and manufacturing reliability.

. Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, contractual, and regulatory

, including FAR and DFARS

where applicable. Define the Quality organization’s strategy, objectives, operating roadmap, and performance metrics in support of company and production targets. Develop and justify departmental budgets, headcount plans, capital-expenditure proposals, and long-term investment strategies.

Manage executive communications and cross-functional relationships across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and leadership. Develop clear and objective quality and reliability success criteria for products, processes, equipment, and production systems. Establish process controls, inspection strategies, quality gates, and measurement systems that can scale across sites, product types, and organizations.

Drive improvements in production yield, throughput, scrap, rework, defect rates, and customer escapes. Lead root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Own the resolution of process failures and ensure corrective actions address the ultimate root cause.

Build systems that proactively protect personnel safety, product quality, and customer reliability. Lead customer, supplier, regulatory, and certification audits as required. Establish effective systems for nonconformance management, material review, first-article inspection, calibration, metrology, and configuration control.

Develop and monitor quality KPIs, analyze technical data, and use objective findings to drive cross-functional decisions and improvement initiatives. What you’ll need Bachelor’s degree in an ABET-accredited engineering discipline.

What You’Ll Do

Serve as the leader accountable for the Quality organization and the primary point of ownership for product reliability, compliance, and certification activities. Establish the organizational structure and recruit the personnel required to build a world-class quality team capable of supporting reliable, high-volume manufacturing. Develop and scale Rangeview’s quality-management systems, processes, standards, and operating procedures.