# Operational Excellence Manager

We’re looking for humble geniuses who believe engineering can turn the impossible into reality-and who are driven to design, build, and test solutions that matter for some of the world’s most trusted companies. If you want to do meaningful work with a diverse team that believes in shared wins, continuous learning, and engineering a brighter future, this is the place for you. Quest Defense Systems and Solutions is actively hiring an Operational Excellence Manager. Our Operational Excellence Manager will serve as the enterprise leader for Quality, AS9100 compliance, LEAN process improvement, and cross-functional workflow optimization. This role ensures that QDSS operates with disciplined, scalable, and compliant processes that meet internal standards, customer expectations, and industry requirements. This leader will own our internal Quality Management System, oversees internal and external audits, and drives the continuous improvement engine of the company. The role strengthens the operational maturity of the Quest Defense Operating System by reducing waste, eliminating friction, and ensuring processes are compliant, well-documented, and consistently executed. Location: Remote. Tra

- **Id**: 3774153
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/quest-defense-operational-excellence-manager>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T18:25:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:15:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6640
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military, Embedded & Electronics Design, Avionics & Flight Control, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 618
- **Name**: Quest Defense
- **Domain**: quest-defense.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/quest-defense>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.714
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 144000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 144000

## Technologies

- **AS9100** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T22:37:42Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 144000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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