About this role
What we’re looking for <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">We are looking for a hands-on and highly structured Quality Control Manager to build, own, and defend quality across the entire company: product, production, and after-sales service. In this role, you will be accountable for our certified quality management system and for the evidence that every single unit we deliver meets contractual, regulatory, and safety-relevant requirements. This is a role with real authority and a direct line to the COO. You define the binding quality processes, you set the release criteria, and you hold stop-ship authority over every delivery that leaves our floor.</span> The day-to-day <ul><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Quality management system:</strong> build, maintain and defend our QMS (EN 9100, AQAP 2110/2210), own the process landscape and drive us through internal audits, external audits and certification milestones.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Production quality:</strong> own all in-process inspections, serialization and batch control, and keep manufacturing documentation complete, clean and archived.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Incoming and end-of-line control:</strong> own goods-in inspection and EOL release. No unit leaves the building without documented conformity.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Non-conformity management:</strong> run the NC process end to end: containment, root cause, corrective and preventive action, and closure before delivery.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Supplier quality:</strong> set the quality bar toward suppliers together with Supply Chain, and drive supplier audits, escalations and long-term corrective action.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Documentation and traceability:</strong> keep every product traceable from incoming material to delivered unit, including full CoC evidence.</li></ul> You should apply if you <ul><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Education:</strong> you have completed vocational training or a degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering or mechatronics, industrial engineering, production technology, quality engineering or a comparable technical field.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Experience:</strong> you bring at least 3 years in quality management or quality control in a hardware, aerospace, automotive or defense production environment.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Standards:</strong> you have worked hands-on with EN 9100 / AS9100, ISO 9001 or AQAP 2110/2210, and you know what an audit really demands.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Methods:</strong> you are fluent in the toolkit: 8D, root cause analysis, FMEA, first article inspection, inspection plans and measurement equipment.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Mindset:</strong> you like building the system, not inheriting it. You are comfortable in a fast-moving start up where the process does not exist yet, and you have the backbone to stop a shipment when the evidence is missing.</li></ul> Nice to haves <ul><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Defense exposure:</strong> experience with defense or dual-use programs, NATO requirements or customer quality representatives.</li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Auditor qualification:</strong> certification as internal auditor or lead auditor (EN 9100, ISO 9001).</li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Serial production:</strong> experience scaling from prototype to serial production of complex hardware systems.</li></ul> What we offer <ul><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Real impact & ownership:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> Shape high-tech </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">defense</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> systems and take responsibility from day one.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Mission-driven environment: </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Work on technologies that matter for European security and sovereignty.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Competitive package:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> Competitive salary, EGYM </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Wellpass</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">, corporate benefits, and equity options aligned with role and level.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Deep tech environment:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge drone technology and real operational use cases.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Grow fast: </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Steep learning curve for juniors, strategic influence and leadership opportunities for seniors.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Startup mindset meets </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">defence</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> innovation:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> flat hierarchies, fast decisions, and space for your ideas.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Flexibility:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> Flexible hours, remote options, and relocation support.</span></span></p></li><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10.6667px;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;font-weight:bold;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Strong team:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.925px;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> International, driven colleagues and a culture built on exchange, trust, and shared success.</span></span></p></li></ul>