Quality Manager

About the role

Develop, implement, and coordinate a product assurance program to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products.

Responsibilities

• Research, evaluate, and present information on business situations, production capabilities, manufacturing problems, economic trends, and design and development of new products for management consideration.
• Suggest and debate alternative methods and procedures to solve problems and meet changing market opportunities.
• Contribute to formulating and establishing company policies, operating procedures, and goals alongside other top management personnel.
• Evaluate reports from product assurance program department heads and confer with top management to prepare the fiscal budget for the product assurance program.
• Conduct management meetings with product assurance program department heads to establish, review, and coordinate organizational policies, functions, and operations between departments.
• Interface with customers on technical and quality issues and improvement initiatives.
• Manage customer audits and regulatory/compliance agency audits.
• Review technical problems and procedures of departments and recommend solutions or changes.
• Visit and confer with representatives of material and component vendors to assess supply quality, vendor capacity, and quality standards.
• Confer with engineers about quality assurance of new products and manufactured products on the market to rectify problems.
• Review technical publications, articles, and abstracts to stay abreast of industry developments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or equivalent experience and training.
• 8 years of experience developing, implementing, and maintaining quality systems or related areas.
• Previous managerial experience.
• 7 years of electromechanical integration or PCB assembly experience.
• 5 years of Lean manufacturing experience.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred.

This role is based in Milpitas, CA.