HIGH LEVEL - ISO proficient (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, AS 9100 and beyond).
Under the direction of the COO, the Quality Manager is responsible for planning, monitoring and maintaining the Quality Management System.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Assist executive management with the development of the corporate quality plan.
• Create and sustain a culture that is based on continuous improvement.
• Quality management of the company’s products including developing and managing measurement systems that incorporate Customer’s View of Quality, in-process manufacturing and machine capability.
• Customer Corrective Actions
• Customer and 3rd Party Audits
• Oversee and direct the overall quality direction of the corporation and the effectiveness of the quality management system including AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and all other accreditations.
• Establish a positive relationship with our customers and become their “trusted advisor”.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
This list of responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management deems necessary. Employees are and will be held accountable for all duties of the job.
• Evaluating suppliers including production capability, reviewing all quality systems (ISO 9100), supplier appraisals and machine shop surveys, and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Analyze data to evaluated current processes and process changes.
• Manage customer corrective actions as well as customer audits
• Manage the day-to-day quality issues in all areas of the plant.
• Manage the Defective Material and CAPA processes.
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communications skills (job requires frequent communication with engineers, purchasing, and service providers).
• Ensure procedures and guidelines are incorporated into fabrication/inspection/surveillance process.
• Job will require domestic travel, approximately <20%.
• Manage Quality staff.
• Must be quality conscious and continuously look for quality improvements.
REQUIREMENTS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skills and/or abilities required.
• 5+ years’ experience as a Quality Manager / Engineer at a facility managed under ISO standards
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing quality assurance environment
• Strong background in manufacturing processes is required
• Strong problem solver, and skilled in metrology
• Competent with MS Office Suite and ERP software applications
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Knowledge of scrap measurements, rework measurements, customer specific performance measurements, vendor performance measurements, gage repeatability and reproducibility measurements (GRR’s)
• Exhibit core values of integrity and accountability
• Maintain a clean, orderly and efficient work area
• Demonstrates ability to read, write, hear and interpret documents and instructions from both verbal and written English
• Strong attention to detail, problem solving, time management and interpersonal skills
• Possess knowledge of gage maintenance and calibration
• Regularly required to use hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and to reach with hands, arms and feet
• Frequently required to talk and hear, to stand, walk or sit; to balance, stoop, crouch and kneel
• Occasionally required to push, pull and/or safely lift various pieces of equipment or parts weighing up to 50 pounds safely
• Vision abilities (corrective or non) include close range, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
• Ability to understand and comply with all company, safety and quality policies and procedures and advocate ISO system standards
