Safety and Quality Manager

Title:  Safety and Quality Manager 

Reports to:  Head of Aircraft Integration Center 

Work Arrangement:  Onsite

Company Overview 

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. 

Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. 

Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. 

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

Aerospace Engineering Group (AERO) provides an integrated, end-to-end capability for the rapid modification and fielding of mission-specific aircraft. The Airborne Asset Adaptation (A3) Cell acts as the central command and coordination hub, managing requirements and external interfaces from inception to operational delivery. Specialized technical execution is delivered by the Aircraft Integration Centre (AIC), a Part 145 facility focused on airframe modification, and Aerospace Design (ASD), which provides organic design engineering and FAA-authorized certification. Collectively, these elements bridge the gap between initial requirements and the deployment of flight-certified, mission-ready assets.

Position Summary 

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.

You will own and mature the AIC Quality Management System (QMS) and be accountable for implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the AIC Safety Management System (SMS), in line with direction and governance set by the Metrea enterprise SMS. 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.

In line with the Metrea Integrated Management System (IMS), you will also act as the AIC’s Operational Compliance Management Representative (OCMR). In this capacity, you will provide independent assurance that the AIC operates within its regulatory approvals, customer requirements, and internal processes, and that compliance performance is monitored, reported, and escalated through the IMS.

You will be successful if you can balance independent oversight with practical delivery, embed safety and quality into day‑to‑day engineering and production activity, and provide clear, trusted advice to leadership in a fast‑moving aircraft modification environment.

What You’ll Do
 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.

Serve as the primary authority for quality assurance objectives and activities within the AIC.

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.

Act as the AIC’s independent focal point for quality, safety, and operational compliance matters across maintenance, modification, integration, and ground operations.

Fulfil the role of Operational Compliance Management Representative (OCMR) for the AIC, providing structured and objective assurance of regulatory and contractual compliance through the Metrea IMS.

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.

Ensure configuration control, documentation integrity, and disciplined adherence to approved processes across all AIC activities.

Manage safety reporting, occurrence investigation, and safety risk assessments, verifying the effectiveness of safety risk contro