Senior Quality Consultant - JAX

Senior Quality Consultant - Jacksonville, FL

Tactical Air Support (TAS) is seeking a Senior Quality Consultant responsible for quality, airworthiness, and assurance across all company operations. This position will establish, govern, and continuously strengthen TAS's Quality Management System (QMS) while ensuring regulatory compliance, operational discipline, and customer confidence across aviation services, maintenance, manufacturing, and program execution.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President of Quality is a key member of the senior leadership team and operates with the independence and authority necessary to halt work, escalate issues, and safeguard safety, compliance, and contractual integrity. This role provides strategic oversight of quality assurance, quality control, and program quality while partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, Safety, Supply Chain, and the Program Management Office.

This is approximately a 3 month contract position, onsight at our Jacksonville / Cecil Field, FL location.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute TAS's enterprise quality and assurance strategy aligned with business objectives, customer commitments, and long-term growth.
• Serve as the authority for quality, airworthiness, and compliance across all operations, with final decision-making responsibility in matters impacting safety, regulatory compliance, or certification.
• Establish clear accountability and governance for quality outcomes at all organizational levels.

Quality Management System (QMS) Governance

• Lead the TAS Quality Management System, including compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, and applicable aerospace and defense regulations.
• Ensure QMS integration across operations, maintenance, manufacturing, engineering, and program management.

Risk, Safety, and Change Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate quality, safety, and operational risks before they impact airworthiness, customers, or contracts.
• Serve as the authority for change management.
• Serve as the authority for configuration control and change management, ensuring changes to aircraft, maintenance, engineering, or operations are properly evaluated, approved, documented, communicated, and implemented.
• Integrate human factors, configuration control, and operational discipline into all quality and change processes.

Operational & Program Quality Oversight

• Ensure quality performance across aviation operations, maintenance, manufacturing, and program execution.
• Provide independent oversight and verification of quality performance across aviation operations, maintenance, manufacturing, and program execution.
• Partner with operational leaders to improve manufacturability, reliability, and process discipline without compromising safety or compliance.
• Support the Program Management Office by ensuring quality requirements are embedded in program planning and execution.

Customer & Regulatory Engagement

• Serve as the senior quality interface with customers, auditors, and regulatory authorities.
• Serve as TAS's senior authority in customer and regulatory engagements related to quality, investigations, audit findings, and corrective actions, protecting customer confidence and contractual standing.
• Lead quality investigations, root cause analyses, and customer corrective actions.
• Maintain audit readiness and certification status across all applicable standards.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Establish and monitor enterprise quality KPIs, trends, and risk indicators.
• Provide clear, executive-level reporting to the CEO and senior leadership on quality performance, risks, and improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Quality Management, Engineering, Operations Management or related technical field; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• Lean Six Sigma, ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/QE), Lead Auditor certifications preferred
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in military/defense aviation, aerospace, aviation maintenance or manufacturing
• At least 10 years of senior leadership experience leading quality organizations in complex, regulated aviation environments
• Deep expertise in AS9100 and aerospace quality and regulatory frameworks
• Experience working with and complying with DCMA audits regulations and maintaining successful relationships with DoD customers across multiple defense aviation programs
• Strong business acumen aligning quality strategies with overall business objectives
• Proven track record with quality management systems implementation and oversight
• Proven ability to lead through operational complexity, growth, and regulatory scrutiny
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise QMS programs and cross-functional change initiatives
• Track record in leading aviation quality investigations and preparing corrective actions
• Excellent communication skills and strong executive presence with the ability to influence, challenge, and partner with customers and TAS leadership
• Demonstrated executive judgment and strategic mindset focused on driving innovation and continuous improvement
• Valid state driver's license
• Must be lawfully eligible to work in the United States, complete a U.S. government I-9 Form

Work Authorization

• Must be lawfully eligible to work in the United States and complete a U.S. government I-9 Form
• Pre-employment, random, or for cause drug/alcohol testing (including marijuana) required
• Occasional aircraft hangar or warehouse environment with exposure to loud noises, fumes from engines and chemicals, unpredictable climate (hot/cold), and electrical shock, or trip or slip hazards.
• May be exposed to or required to handle hazardous materials

Tactical Air Support is an EEO/AA/DEI/Disabled/Veterans Employer