Regent Supplier Quality Manager at Regent responsible for building and leading the Supplier Quality team to ensure suppliers meet production readiness and quality standards. Manage supplier approvals, ramp readiness, and ongoing performance.
Responsibilities
REGENT is scaling Viceroy from prototype into serial production and moving Squire toward repeatable production, and the supply base has to make that same leap with us. A supplier that can hand-build a conforming prototype part doesn't automatically know how to produce that same part, to the same standard, at rate, every time - and those gaps need to be found and closed before REGENT commits to production, not after. This role owns that work: approving suppliers, proving they're ready for serial supply, managing their performance over time, and fixing problems at the source rather than catching them downstream.
You'll build and lead the Supplier Quality team from the ground up as our supply base grows, sitting within Manufacturing & Supply Chain and working in lockstep with Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain so that commercial relationships, quality standards, and production readiness move together rather than at cross purposes. It's a role with real latitude to shape how supplier quality gets done here, on a vehicle program moving faster than most supply chains are used to.
If you’re energized by working at the intersection of cutting-edge innovation, real-world impact, and hands-on development, you’ll be in the right place - and we’d be thrilled to have you on the team!
Build the Team: You'll hire, manage, and develop the Supplier Quality team from the ground up as REGENT's supply base grows.
Own Supplier Approvals: You'll lead supplier assessments, on-site audits, and qualification decisions, matching the depth of review to the risk of the part and process. You'll spend real time on supplier floors, because approval depends on how work is actually done, not just what's in the records.
Drive Ramp Readiness: You'll verify that supplier processes are stable, first articles meet requirements, and suppliers can actually produce at the rate serial production demands. A prototype part that conforms once isn't the same as a process that holds up every time.
Manage Ongoing Performance: You'll use scorecards, performance reviews, and recovery plans to hold suppliers accountable, helping them find root causes and verifying that corrective actions actually prevent recurrence.
Partner Across Functions: You'll work in lockstep with Manufacturing Quality and Supply Chain so commercial relationships, quality standards, and production readiness move together as one coordinated effort.
Protect Safety-Critical Quality: You'll read drawings and specifications to identify safety-critical characteristics, assess control plans, manage nonconformances, and make sure suppliers get REGENT's approval before changing a part or process.
Support Certification Readiness: You'll work with suppliers to meet the requirements of a classification society or aviation authority, verifying traceability from raw material to finished part so production parts can be shown to conform to the approved design.
What You'll Bring
Supplier Quality Leadership: You've built and led a supplier quality team, managed and developed people, and partnered closely with Supply Chain toward a shared goal of getting good parts on time.
