Quality Manager - Aviation Product Safety & Compliance

About the role

This role leads the site's Quality (Product Safety & Compliance) function and acts as the functional management representative, ensuring compliance with all aviation and non-aviation regulatory approvals. It advises site and business leadership on quality, product safety and regulatory matters, oversees the Quality Management System (QMS) and delivers safe, reliable and fully compliant outputs. The position is onsite with the Collins team in the Abu Dhabi Airports Free Zone.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the site's Quality function, including policy, standards, compliance oversight and resource management.
• Serve as the functional management representative for aviation and non-aviation regulatory approvals.
• Act as the site representative for the Quality and Safety Management System, reporting its performance to leadership.
• Provide Quality leadership to the site, ensuring product safety, regulatory compliance and alignment with business objectives.
• Ensure product and process compliance across aerospace operations (OEM and Aftermarket).
• Champion the Voice of the Customer and maintain robust quality processes and controls.
• Lead and develop the Quality team, manage daily operations and conduct audit programs with corrective actions.
• Maintain QMS documentation, training and continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean tools such as CORE.
• Analyze quality data and production processes to mitigate risk and reduce Cost of Poor Quality.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree with 5-8 years of managerial experience in a medium-sized operational facility, preferably in aviation maintenance, repair or service.
• Proven experience managing technical operations and facility production processes.
• Experience conducting and leading audits in a regulated aerospace environment, with formal auditor training.
• Leadership skills, stakeholder engagement and fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.
• Legal right to work and live in the UAE preferred.

Required skills

• Quality Management Systems and Safety Management Systems, measurement, analysis and continuous improvement.
• Lean methodologies (root cause analysis, value stream mapping, 5S, Kaizen).
• Enterprise systems: Microsoft Office, JDE, SAP and OneStream/HFM.