Quality Manager

About the role

Sanmina is a global manufacturing powerhouse, generating over $14 billion in annual revenue with a dedicated team of 35,000+ innovators across 21 countries. We support a world-class customer base with groundbreaking products and manufacturing services. Sanmina Energy (Houston) provides Product Engineering, Assembly & Test, and Precision Machining services.

The purpose of this role is to develop, implement, and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems and activities, managing a team and defining standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating company products.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor QA team
• Be an outspoken advocate for Quality First throughout the plant
• Expediently and effectively communicate with customers on quality escapes, visits, escalations, etc.
• Maintain and improve the site QMS (including NCR and CAPA system, internal audit, training, etc.)
• Maintain the site QMS compliance with ISO:9000 and any site/customer upcoming certifications required
• Ensure effective quality planning (including PFMEAs, process flows and control plans) for NPI and production parts
• Develop additional sources of quality data and track and report key Quality-related performance indicators (KPIs)
• Manage and improve supplier quality
• Drive cross functional projects with manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering, to verify and validate existing manufacturing processes and capabilities
• Overall owner of all applicable training requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in quality engineering or related area in a manufacturing environment in a leadership role
• Detailed knowledge and hands on experience with quality tools including process flowcharts, FMEA’s, control plans, CAPA, RCCA and 8D
• Experience in IPC workmanship requirements is a plus
• Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies including statistical analysis techniques
• Certified Green or Black belt a plus
• Internal audit experience is required
• Experience using Microsoft Office and Google docs product suite required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
• ASQ certifications in QE, RE, QM is a plus

Qualifications

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful permanent resident.