Metrea
Quality and Safety Manager
Tampa, FL · Full-time
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About the role
- In this role, you will be the senior authority for quality, safety, and operational compliance within Metrea's Aircraft Integration Centre (AIC) at Tampa International Airport.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that all aircraft modification, integration, and maintenance activities are delivered compliantly, safely, and with disciplined execution.
- Operating within a Part 145 and applicable Part 21 environment, you will ensure regulatory compliance, effective risk management, and continuous improvement across all AIC activities.
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and continuously improve the AIC Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with FAA Part 145, applicable Part 21 requirements, customer contracts, and Metrea standards
- Implement, manage, and continually improve the AIC Safety Management System, aligned with the Metrea enterprise SMS and ICAO Annex 19 principles, tailored to a maintenance and modification environment
- Plan and lead internal audits, surveillance, and compliance monitoring activities, ensuring findings are risk‑assessed, prioritised, and closed effectively
- Lead corrective and preventive action (CAPA) processes, including root cause analysis and verification of corrective action effectiveness
- Manage safety reporting, occurrence investigation, and safety risk assessments, verifying the effectiveness of safety risk controls and corrective actions
- Build, mentor, and lead quality and safety personnel as the AIC scales, setting clear expectations for professionalism, ownership, and accountability
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aviation, Engineering, Quality, Safety, or a related discipline
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in aviation quality, safety, and/or compliance within complex operational environments
- Significant experience in a Part 145 maintenance and/or Part 21 modification or production environment
- Strong working knowledge of FAA regulatory frameworks relevant to maintenance and modification, including Part 145 and applicable elements of Part 21
- Proven experience implementing, operating, and improving formal management systems (QMS, SMS, IMS or equivalent)
- Experience providing independent assurance and constructive challenge to senior operational leadership
- Strong written, verbal, and executive‑level communication skills, with the ability to brief complex issues clearly
- Experience with ISO 9001, AS/EN 9100, or similar aerospace quality frameworks
- Familiarity with enterprise‑level integrated management systems and cross‑functional governance models
- Experience in aircraft modification, MRO, or missionized aviation environments
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical plan options
- HSA/FSA accounts
- Dental and vision coverage
- Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Life and disability insurance
- Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
- Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Company info
- Company Overview
- Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas.
- These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
- Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people.
Equal opportunity
- AAP/EEO Statement
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Work Authorization / Security Clearance
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