Job Title: Senior Quality Manager Description

About Arkeus Arkeus builds AI-powered sensing systems that help autonomous platforms detect, track and understand what's happening in the most complex and contested environments. Our technology is deployed across defence and national s ecurity applications - already protecting lives and strengthening security across the U.S. and allied markets.

Backed by QIC, Main Sequence, R+VC, Salus Ventures, Folklore Ventures, DYNE Ventures and Beaten Zone Venture Partners, Arkeus is entering a major growth phase. We are a small, quick-moving company with the energy and ambition of a start-up and the technical credibility of a world-class defence technology provider.

We work at the intersection of optics, autonomy, robotics and real-time AI and we deploy what we build. If you want to ship technology that matters, not technology that ships decks, this is where you belong.

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We have developed an inclusive, transparent and engaging culture that focuses on building a diverse workforce - realising that to attract the very best, we need to ensure our culture is ready to welcome people from all ages, genders and backgrounds.

About the role As Senior Quality Manager at Arkeus, you own the quality management system that stands behind every payload we ship. When a customer accepts a unit into a defence program, it is because your system proved it was built right, tested right and documented right - across hardware, software and everything in between.

Reporting to the VP of Manufacturing, you will maintain and mature our ISO 9001 certification at our Melbourne site, lead our Gold Coast site through its first ISO 9001 certification, and build the roadmap that takes Arkeus to AS9100D.





This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role. You will lead through influence - working directly with engineers, technicians, suppliers and site leads to make quality part of how Arkeus builds, not a gate at the end.

About you You are a quality leader who has built and run a QMS in a technology manufacturing environment, and you know the difference between a system that passes audits and one that actually prevents defects. You have taken a site through ISO 9001 certification, and you understand what AS9100D asks for beyond it - configuration management, product safety, counterfeit parts prevention, first article inspection and risk-based thinking.

You are comfortable with products that are equal parts hardware and software. You can follow a nonconformance from a solder joint to a firmware release, and you know how to apply quality discipline to both without slowing either down. You have worked in defence or aerospace, and you understand low-rate, high-mix manufacturing - where every unit matters, volumes are small and processes must be robust without being bureaucratic.

You are pragmatic, credible on the shop floor and in the boardroom, and you write things down clearly. You are energised by a high-growth environment where you get to build the quality foundations of a company across two sites, not just maintain them.





Key responsibilities Quality Management System:

ISO 9001 - Melbourne:

Maintain and continually improve ISO 9001 certification at our Port Melbourne site, including surveillance and recertification audits, management review and corrective action closure.

ISO 9001 - Gold Coast:

Lead our Gold Coast site to its first ISO 9001 certification - gap analysis, process definition, implementation, internal audit and certification body engagement.

AS9100D Roadmap:

Develop and execute the plan to transition our QMS to AS9100D, including gap analysis, resourcing, timeline and readiness assessment for certification.

One QMS, Two Sites:

Harmonise processes, documentation and records across Melbourne and the Gold Coast so both sites operate as one system.

Audit Program:

Plan and run the internal audit program and coordinate external audits by certification bodies and customers.

Product Quality - Hardware & Software:

Hardware Quality:

Define inspection, test and acceptance processes for low-rate electro-optical and electronic assemblies, including first article inspection (AS9102), workmanship standards (e.g. IPC-A-610) and calibration control.

Nonconformance & CAPA:

Own the nonconformance, root cause and corrective action process - using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Whys and fishbone analysis - and drive actions to verified closure.

Configuration & Traceability:

Ensure product configuration, change control and traceability are maintained from design through build, test and delivery.

Supply Chain & Customer Quality:

Supplier Quality:

Establish supplier approval, monitoring and develop

📌 Senior Quality Manager (Brisbane)
🏢 Arkeus
📍 Brisbane