Quality Control Manager

Responsible for ensuring manufactured/supplied products meet or exceed standards of quality, reliability, and performance. develop, implement, and manage quality control systems designed to ensure continuous production of FXC/Guardian materials and applications, consistent with established standards and customer specifications. Supervise and mentor a team of quality control inspectors. This is a hands‑on position. Improving and reviewing new specifications and procedures for products or processes and conduct training with inspection personnel.

Assist in establishing the requirements for raw materials from suppliers and monitoring their compliance. Ensure compliance with company quality policy, vision, and mission statements. This position reports to the Quality Assurance Manager.

• Ensure a high level of internal and external communication with customers. Investigate and correct customer issues and complaints relating to quality control and quality assurance.
• Supervise workers engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure high productivity with high technical integrity.
• Develop and analyze statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and to establish quality and reliability expectancy of finished products.
• Coordinate government source inspection activity, call for source after product have been inspected internally.
• Establish data for first pass yields for receiving inspection, inspection and test, track production inspection escapes and report results to the ERP and to the QA Manager.
• Coordinate process control activities with quality engineers
• Provide technical and statistical expertise to teams.
• Formulate, document, and maintain quality control standards and company quality control objectives.
• Coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with other managers
• Create, document, and implement inspection criteria, workmanship, and procedures for QC.
• Inspecting the final output, comparing it to the requirements, and approving or rejection the final product to include the shipping process.
• Maintain documented information of inspection outputs, nonconformity, customer returns and document results.
• Conduct product investigation, CAPA and provide results to quality assurance manager
• Give quality control input to contract review activity
• Interpret quality control philosophy to key personnel within company.
• Provide and oversee inspection process for product throughout production life cycle.
• Apply continuous improvement quality tools and approaches to charting and reporting processes.
• Interact with suppliers to ensure quality of purchased parts.
• Maintain active role on internal continuous improvement team.
• Design, develop and implement quality control training programs for inspection personnel.
• Conduct internal process audits per ISO 9001 requirements
• Support the management representative in achieving company goals and objectives
• Complete 1 improvement project per year as it pertains to process, product, or QC system

• AS9100/ISO
  9001 training and implementation experience
• Internal Auditing, FAI, and strong CAPA, FMEA experience
• Project, process management
• Experience in the use of precision tools
• Supervision, Coaching, and Managing Processes
• Collaborative/team-based management style preferred
• Problem solving skills; process, electromechanical production, and inspection
• Strong knowledge of mathematics, data analysis, and statistical methods
• Use of inspection tools, methods, processes, and maintain inspection tools
• Knowledge and experience in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, Quality Assurance Certification and ASQ-CQE,
• 7-10 years of experience in quality control management and inspection activities
• Management and leadership skills
• Ability to create and manage budgets
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, identify, and address problems, meet deadlines, and stay within budgeted hours.
• Must have excellent writing and communication skills
• Work collaboratively with process improvement teams

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met…