Quality System Manager

Quality System Manager# Quality System Manager Frederick, MD - Frederick, MD 21703## Overview Salary Range $90,000.00 - $ Salary Position Type Full-Time Job Shift Day - 1st Shift Education Level4 Year Degree

Travel Percentage Up to 25%
Category Management## Description
** OUR COMPANY
** As a manufacturing firm, ACDi's biggest differentiator is our people. We're here to do more than simply build "widgets". Our people offer solutions to challenging design and product development issues and are passionate about hitting customer delivery schedules and exceeding expectations. We approach each project understanding that achieving the highest quality possible is required for every step of the electronics design, engineering, and manufacturing process.

What we do day-in and day-out has a lasting, meaningful impact across many industries and in the lives of everyday people. At ACDi we create a seismic measuring system that prevents people from getting stuck in elevators during an earthquake; we defend our nation by helping to build gun turrets for tanks, communication systems for troops, and military avionics; we support NASA programs with communications systems that converse with launched vehicles.

We approach each project understanding that achieving the highest quality possible is required for every step of the electronics manufacturing process, because these projects help keep our country and people around the world safe, secure, and free. At ACDi, we’re more than just a contract manufacturer.
** Position Summary
** Overall management, leadership, and oversight responsibility for all Quality Management System (QMS) and certifications, company wide. Responsible for ensuring that all internal and external quality objectives are achieved, involving industrial processes, materials, and products by performing the following duties:
** Essential

Duties & Responsibilities
*** To perform this job successfully, and individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Other duties may be assigned
* · Responsible for the development, implementation, certification and ongoing continuous improvement of the QMS systems and procedures with the SAE AS91000 and ISO 9001, Aerospace standard and other future industry and regulatory standards as applicable across all ACDI sites
· Lead integration of process / procedures across all current / future sites with end goal of merging certifications
· Participate in evaluation of QMS systems at future acquisition targets
· Ensure compliance with electronics manufacturing IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 standards including employee training certifications as applicable
· Lead gap-analysis / qualifications / certification process to new QMS standards, as business needs arise
· Ensure that standards and methods for incoming, in-process, and final inspection, testing and evaluation are maintained and adhered to
· Collaborate with the Supply Chain team for qualification of external suppliers, development and application of quality clauses, and oversight for the implementation of inspection processes to ensure conformity of supplied material and services and monitoring of supplier performance
· Responsible for Internal Auditing process, including conducting internal auditor training and ensuring that internal audits are completed on time and accurately
· Represent management during third party audits with BSI, customers, UL, etc.
· Participate in senior management meetings, and strategy sessions, aligning quality department with corporate goals / directives
· Oversee completion of customer questionnaires in a thorough and timely manner
· Provide oversight to collect, compile, analyze and report on quality data utilizing ERP system tools as applicable across all 3 sites, driving data driven decision making
· 3-4 visits per year to other sites to further promote corporate quality directives## Qualifications
** Specific Educational / Experience Requirements
*** The…