Shield AI
Mission Assurance Lead (R5896)
$112K–$168K
Dallas, Texas · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; accepted areas include aviation maintenance, maintenance QA, maintenance control, field service leadership, or equivalent mission-critical operational roles.
About the job
Provides independent, engineering-informed oversight of aircraft maintenance, configuration, documentation, and field operations to verify readiness, identify risks, and drive corrective actions.
What you'll do
- Build and operate a mission assurance model, including inspection strategies, audits, evidence requirements, and reporting.
- Inspect maintenance and field operations; verify quality, documentation, configuration, and compliance, and track findings through resolution.
- Escalate safety, compliance, and data-integrity risks; support investigations and maintain assurance evidence.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in aviation maintenance, maintenance QA, maintenance control, field service leadership, or equivalent mission-critical operational roles.
- Demonstrated ability to build or mature maintenance QA or mission assurance programs.
- Practical expertise with maintenance procedures, logbooks, MIS/work orders, configuration control, service bulletin compliance, tool/FOD control, and aircraft release discipline.
- Hands-on operational-environment experience; strong data/reporting skills and working knowledge of audits, root-cause methods, CAPA, and safety/quality systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with military aviation maintenance/QA, developmental flight test programs, or autonomous systems.
- Experience with NASA-style mission assurance, DoD QA, AS9100, ICAO safety assurance, or similar frameworks.
Pay
USD 112,000–168,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
MIS/work orders, CAPA, HFACS, TapRooT, Six Sigma, AS9100, ICAO
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