Director of Quality — Interim, Aerospace Electronics

The mandate

Failure analysis discovered remarked electronic components in a flight-control subassembly, and the quality director was suspended after approved-source exceptions lacked evidence. Customer shipments are held while the installed and work-in-progress population is traced.

The interim must begin within ten days for fourteen months through containment, supplier recertification and two surveillance audits. The role returns to a permanent quality leader recruited after the investigation's factual phase.

Handover requires full affected-population disposition, source traceability above 99.8 per cent, recertification of all high-risk suppliers, zero overdue critical corrective actions, and the successor independently defending one customer audit.

The director may quarantine material, suspend suppliers and approve independent testing below ₹75 lakh. Fleet notification, legal settlement and permanent supplier termination above continuity threshold require executive approval; design-airworthiness and product release retain separate authorised signatories.

New product certification, production-capacity expansion and procurement savings are excluded. The assignment protects authorised material and evidence across the existing aerospace electronics portfolio.

Why this seat is open

Counterfeit discovery called both supplier controls and prior exception approvals into question. Leadership suspension preserves investigation independence but leaves no credible quality authority for customers. An interim specialist must close the exposure and install controls that a permanent director can defend.

What you will own

• Trace affected component lots across purchase, receipt, store, build, shipment and installed-product genealogy.
• Decide quarantine and disposition boundaries with airworthiness, engineering and customer evidence.
• Requalify high-risk suppliers through source verification, process audit and controlled purchase tests.
• Establish independent approval for authorised-source exceptions and obsolescence-driven broker use.
• Validate component authenticity through risk-based documentary, visual, electrical and destructive methods.
• Present residual fleet and supply exposure directly to customers and the compliance chair.
• Induct the permanent quality director through a complete customer surveillance audit.

Candidate qualifications

• More than twenty-two years in aerospace or defence electronics quality with authorised release environments.
• Led containment of counterfeit, suspect-unapproved or traceability-deficient electronic components.
• Deep command of supplier approval, component authentication, obsolescence sourcing and product genealogy.
• Experience coordinating airworthiness, customers, counsel and law enforcement without contaminating evidence.
• Ability to set risk-based population boundaries and defend both inclusions and exclusions.
• Customer-audit credibility across high-reliability electronics manufacturing and supplier control.

Non-negotiables

• Available onsite in Hyderabad within ten days for immediate material control.
• No relationship with brokers, distributors or suppliers implicated in the investigation.
• Eligible for controlled aerospace programme information after screening.
• Will preserve evidence and independent product-release authority throughout the mandate.

1. 49 words maximum. Confirm your earliest Hyderabad start and controlled-programme screening readiness.
2. 49 words maximum. Which suspect-component population did you contain, and how was its boundary proven?
3. 49 words maximum. What authentication method changed your disposition decision on an electronic component lot?