Quality Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure facility compliance with all mandatory quality and product standards and specifications.
• Manage and define responsibilities of QA/QC personnel and assign individual tasks as required.
• Support senior management with implementation of the Quality Policy and Quality Objectives and ensure that they are communicated and understood by all employees.
• Work with the supervisors and managers on the development of, and training to, the facility procedures and work instructions.
• Ensure that the training matrix and all employee training records are properly maintained.
• Manage the calibration program for the facility measurement and test equipment.
• Manage facility Internal Audit Process.
• Manage document control activities to ensure compliance is maintained.
• Oversee the Corrective Action and non-conformance processes.
• Manage Third party inspectors, job data packages, and inspection releases as required.
• Oversee the annual Management Review.
• Perform Trend Analysis on NCR’S and CPAR’s.
• Oversee monitoring and measuring equipment calibration programs.
• Participate in Material Review Board activities.
• Perform failure analysis and written reports in response to Quality Action Requests of products.
• Work with plant engineering and production departments in support of continuous improvement activities.
• Administer Management of Change and Risk Assessment activities.

Facility/Group Specific Responsibilities

• Support Quality Management System and industry certification related activities, including inter-facility or supplier audits.
• Serve as QA representative on continuous improvement efforts including Quality & Process Team meetings and associated action items and projects.
• Serve as management representative for facility QA/QC related issues and projects.
• Assist in establishing facility metrics that align with the Senior Leadership and Global Company objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a unionized manufacturing environment, including collaboration with union employees, supervisors, and plant leadership on quality, training, corrective action, and process compliance matters.

Techincal Competencies

• Experience with reinforced plastics is highly desirable, as is familiarity with ASME, ASTM or other industry related codes and standards.
• Experience working within an ISO 9001-certified Quality Management System required.
• Experience supporting ISO 9001 audits, management reviews, corrective actions, document control, and continual improvement activities strongly preferred.
• Blueprint reading and dimensional inspection.
• Basic statistical methods.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint.