Senior Quality Manager

Bodycote Offers

Pay Range: $125,000 to $150,000 – based on skills/experience. 401k Match, Medical, Dental and Vision Plans for Employees and Families.

Our people are the heart of our business. As the world’s largest provider of thermal processing services, Bodycote employs thousands of skilled staff around the globe, including some of the best engineers, scientists, and technicians in the industry. Join our team!

Due to the nature of our business and a heavy industrial market, Bodycote deems this position safety‑sensitive.

The Senior Quality Manager will either supervise the Quality activities of one or more plants or will provide backup to a series of plants within a region. The role ensures that products, materials, and services supplied to customers meet contractual requirements and that a quality program is implemented and maintained, allowing a consistent quality standard.

• Implement and maintain the Bodycote Quality System (BQS) to meet customer requirements and corporate standards.
• Direct and supervise the work of the quality department employees.
• Provide procedures, as required, to support quality department objectives.
• Provide training to individuals whose work affects quality issues in the requirements of the BQS.
• Review customer proposals, requests for quotations and/or purchase orders, including changes, to determine quality requirements and ensure their input into internal planning.
• Establish and maintain relations with customer representatives in quality‑related activities, including source inspection, audits and process surveys.
• Interface with other departments to provide assistance, resolve problems, and monitor work affecting quality.
• Perform activities defined in the BQS responsibility matrix.
• Monitor and audit responsibilities defined in the responsibility matrix.
• Ensure conformance to quality program requirements through external/internal audits, corrective action programmes, and qualify associates through testing and training.
• Maintain supplier qualification to ensure they meet quality standards and obtain process approvals.
• Act as a member of the management team and perform other duties as dictated by the position or required by the General Manager.
• Practice and promote safety and good housekeeping.
• Work consistently with the Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Demonstrate the ability to report for work on time, follow directions, interact effectively with co‑workers, understand and follow rules and procedures, and accept constructive criticism.
• May have access to compensation information of other employees or applicants; cannot disclose the pay of others to third parties.

• Position must satisfy ITAR compliance; candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Resident Card Holders.
• Engineering degree or Bachelor’s Degree in a related manufacturing field required.
• Experience and practical knowledge of Quality Management Systems; preferred to have direct experience in heat treatment of commercial or aerospace alloys.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Quality Control and 2 years direct supervisory experience.
• Proficient in reading, writing, and communicating in English to interface with management and all levels, both in‑house and at customer sites.
• Capability to make written recommendations for improving Quality Assurance Systems and Procedures.
• Thorough familiarity with aerospace quality systems.
• Capability to write general procedures for heat treatment of specific alloys in accordance with customer needs.
• Familiarity with commercial (AMS, ASTM), aircraft and aerospace specifications, ISO, AS, QS and TS quality systems.
• Familiarity with Root Cause Corrective Action investigations and Corrective Action Management.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, specifications and purchase orders.
• Ability to plan and execute projects and activities to specific timelines.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience of computer applications including Microsoft Office and databases required.
• NUDcap experience required; NUDcap Heat Treat Experience preferred.

• Must be able to work in a sitting and/or standing position…