Engineering & Quality Manager; Camden, Arkansas

Overview

Engineering & Quality Manager (Camden, Arkansas)

Location:

Camden, Arkansas

• Responsible for overseeing the implementation of new processes and procedures within the organization, working with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement, assess risk, develop plans for change, and monitor progress toward goals.
• Understand and deploy processes to assure conformance to government regulations, industry standards and product specifications.
• Ensure gaps between external and internal processes are defined with a process to integrate processes and systems.
• Drive test engineering excellence to automate with repeatability and develop methodology.
• Lead concurrent engineering efforts by participating in process development projects, first part integration, representing quality assurance and the customer.
• Review process specifications to ensure they meet industry standards for safety and performance.
• Evaluate new technology and materials to determine their suitability for use in manufacturing processes.
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to confirm process strategies and coverage across multiple locations.
• Manage and coordinate multiple projects to ensure they are completed on time.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders and key project participants.

• Oversee the implementation of new processes and procedures within the organization, working with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement, assess risk, develop plans for change, and monitor progress toward goals.
• Understand and deploy processes to assure conformance to government regulations, industry standards and product specifications.
• Ensure gaps between external and internal processes are defined with a process to integrate processes & systems.
• Drive test engineering excellence to automate with repeatability and develop methodology.
• Lead concurrent engineering efforts by participating in process development projects, first part integration, representing quality assurance and the customer.
• Review process specifications to ensure that they meet industry standards for safety and performance.
• Evaluate new technology and materials to determine their suitability for use in manufacturing processes.
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to confirm process strategies and coverage across multiple locations.
• Manage and coordinate multiple projects to ensure they are completed on time.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders and key project participants.

• Establish quality improvement goals and identify opportunities for improvement based on internal audits, metrics and customer feedback.
• Define KPI’s and metrics for the quality/engineering teams through tracking and reports.
• Assure completion of root cause and corrective action analysis when escapes occur and ensure that the process to resolve future escapes is effective and efficient.
• Focus on using root cause analysis and corrective action to eliminate quality issues.
• Work closely with the operations organizations to build a quality focus into their processes.
• Provide input, design and/or implement quality standards and/or specifications and procedures relative to process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
• Review all program plans prior to production for quality compliance.
• Conduct and coordinate required product inspections and ensure products meet customer quality standards.
• Oversee quality processes during production.
• Manage the entire quality system and processes and make changes as necessary.
• Establish and implement quality metrics throughout the organization to measure quality performance with the goal of reducing scrap, rework, and improving efficiency and discipline of the Quality organization.
• Communicates as needed with internal/external customers while helping them understand process and risk.

• Plan, schedule, and conduct training sessions for employees on best practices in quality control methods and techniques.
• Establish/maintain and manage process improvement metrics to reduce customer escapes toward near zero.
• Conduct internal audits of…