Quality Lead - Night Shift

Job Summary/Purpose

The Quality Lead will lead and support the quality employees on PPE's night shift to support quality activities for production and quality issue resolution. This role supports PPE scrap reduction initiatives and helps in more strategic focus.

Essential Duties

• Lead and develop the quality team through training, coaching, and mentoring to ensure adherence to quality standards and procedures.
• Drive employee engagement and foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
• Checks status of Hot Jobs and manage Quality Inspectors work priority.
• Supports activity to ensure shifts are well staffed to cover planned PTOs.
• Represents Quality Department in shop floor Daily Management to communicate quality metrics and issues.
• Reviews daily scrap fallout of responsible areas and M.R.B (Material Review Board) held parts and dispositions.
• Participates in problem solving processes with cross-functional team to find root cause for internal and external (customer) nonconformances and help team formulate preventative and corrective action.
• Communicate promptly to responsible authority of products or processes that do not conform to requirements to ensure nonconforming product is not shipped to the customer and all potential nonconforming product is identified and contained.
• Review and escalate quality control test result failures or process audit findings and participate in corrective action.
• As part of the receiving inspection, ensures all the incoming raw materials are qualified and escalates any supplier quality issues to Finance Team, Production Team, Quality Management and Purchasing Team.
• Supports and performs tool qualification and NPD sample measurements.
• Has the authority to stop shipment and hold production on jobs with issues to correct quality problems.
• Controls quality as delegated by management.
• Maintains good, safe work habits and housekeeping.
• Ensures that the quality management system conforms to the ISO 9001 & 14001 requirements.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and lead initiatives to enhance product quality and reduce waste.
• Enforce safety and 5S standards within the quality department.
• Acts as a liaison between quality, production, and engineering teams to ensure alignment on specifications and standards.

Physical Requirements

• Movement about the cell, standing, sitting
• Reaching, hand/finger manipulation
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 yrs previous experience in a manufacturing environment within Quality department
• Ability to understand and use Microsoft Office
• Ability to communicate well, both verbally and written
• Certifications such as ASQ CQI/CQT or Six Sigma (a plus)