Quality Manager

About the role

Standex International is a global industrial growth company operating through market-leading brands in electronics, cutting-edge forming technologies, engraving, and scientific refrigeration. We collaborate with customers to advance progress through innovation—from producing parts for next-generation space vehicles to evolving vaccine refrigeration, designing functional textures, improving renewable energy technology, and more.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality improvement efforts to establish and enforce an effective Quality Management System (QMS).
• Manage supplier quality, provide feedback on defects, and ensure corrective actions are received.
• Implement and maintain an internal surveillance audit process to ensure adherence to the QMS.
• Establish cross-functional training programs to ensure quality technicians are skilled in testing methods and internal auditing.
• Coach and develop plant Quality Technicians in quality tools such as process audits, root cause countermeasure (PDCA), measurement systems analysis (MSA), statistical process control (SPC), and QMS.
• Lead facility quality efforts, define areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures.
• Update the quality assurance manual and procedures to establish an effective QMS.
• Ensure Change Management procedures are followed and communicated to all affected associates.
• Review and standardize control plans, closed-loop corrective action systems, and QMS across all plants.
• Assure adherence to the internal audit plan to verify plant compliance with the QMS.
• Enforce quality assurance standards, policies, and industry/government requirements for supplier quality.
• Collaborate with the quality organization to share best practices and ensure standardization across business units.
• Monitor QMS performance through data analysis and adherence to standards.
• Work with facility management to achieve financial objectives, reduce customer credits, and initiate corrective actions to prevent systemic issues.
• Monitor KPIs (Scrap, RMA, Supplier Quality Index, etc.) and create countermeasures when goals are not achieved.
• Maintain a CSC (Sense of Crisis, Sense of Speed, and Sense of Communication) mindset.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge through educational workshops, certifications, networking, and professional societies.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role in quality or engineering.
• Demonstrated problem-solving experience with Lean Sigma, Six Sigma, and/or lean manufacturing techniques.
• Skilled in statistical process control, change management, and legacy quality tools (PDCA, FMEA, control plans, etc.).
• Knowledge of ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements.