Quality Manager

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Quality Full Time Exempt Columbus, NE, US

Description: The Quality Manager provides leadership for quality assurance and quality control to ensure Behlen products consistently meet customer requirements, engineering drawings, contractual obligations, and applicable codes and standards. Reporting to the COO, this role strengthens a One Behlen approach to quality by promoting shared expectations, consistent processes, cross-functional collaboration, and learning across business units. The Quality Manager leads the quality management system, inspection and verification practices, corrective action, and quality performance reporting.

The role partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Sales, and other relevant teams to prevent defects, reduce rework and cost of poor quality, protect customers, and build a culture in which quality is everyone’s responsibility.

• Promote a company-wide mindset that quality is a shared responsibility and that business units work together rather than in silos.
• Collaborate with business unit and functional leaders to share lessons learned, address recurring issues, and advance consistent quality practices where appropriate.
• Build strong working relationships with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Sales, and other stakeholders to align quality priorities with customer needs and business objectives.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility to quality performance, significant risks, customer concerns, and improvement opportunities.

• Maintain and continuously improve the quality management system, including procedures, work instructions, inspection records, and document controls.
• Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and applicable standards, including ISO 9001, American Welding Society (AWS) codes, and American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) requirements, where relevant to products and certifications.
• Lead internal audits and coordinate customer, certification, and third-party audits; ensure findings are addressed through timely, effective corrective action.

• Establish inspection and test plans for incoming materials, fabrication, welding, finishing, and final product release.
• Verify conformance to engineering drawings, dimensional tolerances, material specifications, weld requirements, and customer acceptance criteria.
• Oversee material identification and traceability, including mill test reports and required inspection documentation.
• Coordinate weld inspections and nondestructive testing, as applicable; verify required welding procedures and personnel qualifications.
• Maintain calibration and control of inspection, measuring, and testing equipment.
• Identify, segregate, and control nonconforming materials and products; exercise authority to place work or shipments on hold until requirements are met.

• Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for internal defects, supplier issues, and customer complaints.
• Verify corrective-action effectiveness and implement process improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Partner with Production and Engineering to reduce scrap, rework, weld repairs, and other quality-related costs.
• Review customer specifications and new or revised work before production to identify quality risks and required inspection controls.
• Use quality data and frontline input to identify trends, prioritize improvement work, and measure results.

• Supervise, coach, and develop…