Senior Quality Manager

Hosted by:
Amanda Preston

Salary: $110,000 - $130,000 per year

Highly respected manufacturer specializing in engineered stainless steel solutions for demanding industrial applications. We are known for our commitment to quality, safety, craftsmanship, and long-standing customer relationships. Our work requires precision, technical expertise, and a strong partnership between engineering, operations, supply chain, and production to deliver products that meet rigorous customer, regulatory, and internal standards.

This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible quality leadership role with direct impact across the entire organization. The Senior Quality Manager will have the ability to shape and strengthen the company’s Quality Management System, build a proactive quality culture, develop the quality team, and partner cross-functionally to improve manufacturing performance, supplier quality, customer satisfaction, and overall operational excellence.

This is a great fit for someone who enjoys being hands‑on in a manufacturing environment while also thinking strategically about systems, standards, process improvement, and long-term quality performance.

• Lead, coach, and develop the quality organization to ensure alignment with company goals, customer expectations, and performance standards.
• Create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and proactive quality ownership across all functions.
• Prioritize quality initiatives using 80/20 principles to maximize impact on cost of quality, customer satisfaction, and operational performance.

• Define, standardize, and deploy Critical to Quality specifications across products, processes, suppliers, and manufacturing operations.
• Serve as a key liaison between internal teams, customers, and vendors to align quality expectations and technical requirements.
• Ensure quality standards are clearly documented and maintained within Standard Work Instructions and QMS documentation.

• Maintain and continuously improve the ISO 9000 / ISO 9001 compliant Quality Management System, including document control, audit readiness, and process adherence.
• Ensure processes consistently meet customer, regulatory, internal, and industry quality standards.
• Protect the integrity of the QMS during process changes, continuous improvement initiatives, and new product or equipment introductions.

• Lead supplier quality strategy, including vendor qualification, supplier performance monitoring, corrective actions, and supplier development.
• Implement and manage supplier scorecards, incoming inspection processes, and AQL methodologies.
• Standardize supplier quality expectations and drive continuous improvement across the supply base.

• Partner with Engineering and Operations to improve defect prevention, process capability, manufacturing simplification, and production quality.
• Implement poka-yoke and error-proofing methods to eliminate non-conformances and improve first-pass yield.
• Lead capability studies, validation activities, new equipment qualification, and SPC deployment across production processes.

• Lead structured root cause and corrective action efforts using RCCM methodologies.
• Support Engineering Change Notice processes and ensure quality considerations are built into process and product changes.
• Champion Lean, Six Sigma, statistical methods, and continuous improvement tools to reduce waste, improve quality performance, and prevent recurrence of issues.

• Oversee incoming, progressive, in-process, and final inspection processes to ensure product conformance.
• Implement robust testing and validation processes for products, equipment, and manufacturing systems.
• Ensure compliance with PSO, SAT/FAT, PPAP, and related customer, supplier, and product introduction requirements.

• Define, monitor, and report key quality metrics, including cost of quality, first-pass yield, scrap, warranty, non-conformance trends, returns, and corrective actions.
• Analyze quality data to identify risks, drive corrective actions, and support achievement of KPI targets.
• Maintain accurate records of quality performance, non-conformances, scrap, warranty claims, and corrective actions.

• Lead response and resolution for customer quality…