Quality Manager
Reports to: VP of Manufacturing
Department: Plant Operations
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Travel: Occasionally (up to 10%)
JOB SUMMARY: The Quality Manager oversees and enforces quality assurance standards across the full production process, from raw materials through final shipment. This role ensures that products meet internal requirements, customer expectations, and applicable regulatory standards before leaving the facility. The Quality Manager also leads the Quality Inspection team and is responsible for maintaining the facility's ISO and aerospace quality certifications.
JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Direct the hiring, performance management, and disciplinary actions of Quality Inspection team members.
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Guide inspectors in identifying, documenting, and resolving production defects.
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Qualify and certify raw materials and the subcontract supplier base.
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Disposition questionable nonconformities and work with vendors to expedite return-to-vendor items.
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Manage receiving, work-in-process, and finished goods inspection processes.
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Manage Corrective Action Requests (CARs) and Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs), including data collection and analysis, with a focus on corrective and preventive action.
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Reduce manufacturing waste through proactive quality controls and corrective actions.
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Implement and maintain a rigorous Quality Management System (QMS).
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Own compliance with ISO 9001 and AS9100 certification requirements, in coordination with the New Products and Compliance Manager
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Maintain and control Quality System documentation, including procedures, work instructions, work aids, and forms.
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Maintain calibration records and the calibration database.
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Establish and maintain the quality database to track customer complaints, reject scrap, in-process inspections, receiving inspections, final inspections, internal and external DPPM, and Material Review Board activity.
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Demonstrate and embody our core values: Be Limitless, Be Resilient, Be People Centered, Be a Team, and Be Trustworthy.