Quality Assurance Lead (Defense Manufacturing)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

Pulse Nova is a joint venture between EDGE and Indra focused on advanced defense manufacturing operations.

What you will do

• Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control across the full manufacturing lifecycle, ensuring regulatory, contractual, and customer compliance.
• Establish, govern, and continuously improve the enterprise Quality Management System, including procedures, control plans, traceability, and calibration governance.
• Own non-conformance and CAPA governance, including NCR/MRB management, containment, 8D root-cause analysis, and recurrence prevention.
• Lead quality readiness for industrialization and ramp-up, including validation, inspection and control plan readiness, and ECR/ECN change impact management.
• Define supplier quality strategy with Supply Chain, covering qualification, audits, surveillance, scorecards, and escalation.
• Govern quality KPIs and risk indicators, lead customer and regulatory audits, and advise executive leadership on mission-critical quality decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in quality leadership within defense, aerospace, or other high-reliability manufacturing environments.
• Experience establishing and governing enterprise-level QMS in regulated production settings, including EN/AS 9100 or ISO 9001.
• Experience managing quality across industrialization, ramp-up, serial production, system integration, and customer acceptance.
• Experience leading supplier quality strategy and defense supply chain oversight, including audits, risk classification, and escalation.
• Executive-level experience with non-conformance, CAPA governance, regulatory compliance, and customer audit engagement.
• Ability to advise senior leadership, customers, and regulators in complex, mission-critical programs.

Nice to have

• Experience in UAE or Middle East defense and aerospace environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within advanced defense manufacturing and mission-critical programs.
• Collaborate across Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, executive leadership, customers, and regulators.
• Drive quality culture, capability development, and competency governance.