Quality Manager

#Eng-IT-01
Quality Manager

Summary:
The Quality Manager organizes, plans, and leads a skilled team of quality engineers, inspectors, and document control clerk in establishing and monitoring key metrics to provide quality products to customers. The manager is responsible for all quality aspects within the business. The manager is also responsible for leading the quality team and supporting the cross-functional teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
• 8+ years of experience in Quality with at least 3 years experience as a Quality Manager (Aerospace strongly preferred)
• Experience in preparing and leading AS9100 audits.
• Manage quality systems through ERP system (Epicor preferred)

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve quality systems, procedures, and plans for all areas of the business.
• Define and specify the implementation of standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision, accuracy and reliability of company products.
• Participates in review of engineering designs to contribute quality requirements and considerations.
• Serve as the FAA focal point for ODA activities. Responsible for the operation of the ODA.
• Responsible for the overall day to day operation of the Repair Station, and as such, has final authority in releasing to service any item which has been repaired, overhauled, altered or tested.
• Establish key metrics/targets for business units to monitor and track the quality of the products being manufactured.
• Lead the quality engineers in executing the business unit and quality metric objectives.
• Lead the inspection team in managing activities such as inspecting incoming/outgoing products, performing First Article Reviews (FAR), and auditing vendor approvals.
• Driver of continuous improvement activities and productivity.
• Create robust preventive action and/or corrective action to ensure the process improvement initiatives to correct product or process deficiencies.
• Prepare and lead company internal and external quality audits.
• Facilitate the communication and interaction amongst both internal and external stakeholders by advocating and fostering cross-functional teamwork, using team-based management and leadership concepts.
• Build and lead a dynamic team and set the pace and example as a leader of the organization.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Provide employee coaching, mentoring, and training and development, to further build and strengthen the culture of the team.
• Conduct performance appraisals and provide recommendations on personnel placement, discipline, and wages.
• Support the development of short and long-term goals and objectives within the quality department