Quality Manager

Description

POSITION SUMMARY:Lead the Kalyn Siebert quality function and build a prevention-based culture of quality at the source. Own the AS9100 quality management system and ensure fabricated components, purchased materials, work in process, and finished products comply with customer, regulatory, military, engineering, and Company requirements. Partner directly with Operations and Engineering to eliminate recurring defects, improve process capability, and deliver measurable gains in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Own, maintain, and continually improve the AS9100 quality management system, including procedures, records, internal audits, management review, risk-based thinking, and certification readiness.
• Serve as the plant's senior quality leader and primary point of contact for customers, registrars, government representatives, and internal stakeholders on quality and compliance matters.
• Build quality at the source by establishing clear process controls, inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and reaction plans across fabrication, welding, assembly, paint, and final test operations.
• Lead structured problem solving and corrective action using disciplined methods such as 8D, A3, 5 Why, cause-and-effect analysis, containment, verification of effectiveness, and error proofing.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to reduce defects, rework, scrap, customer escapes, and cost of poor quality while improving first-pass yield and on-time delivery.
• Establish and manage plant quality metrics, including first-pass yield, internal defects, rework and scrap, customer complaints and escapes, supplier defects, audit findings, and corrective-action closure. Provide clear daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
• Ensure compliance with customer contracts, engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection and test requirements, military specifications, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Maintain effective configuration control, product identification, traceability, inspection status, nonconforming-material control, and required quality records throughout the manufacturing process.
• Lead internal, customer, registrar, and government audits; ensure findings are contained, corrected, closed on time, and prevented from recurring.
• Manage nonconforming material and the material review process, including timely disposition, segregation, escalation, root‑cause analysis, and closure.
• Develop supplier quality expectations, monitor supplier performance, initiate supplier corrective actions, and verify sustained closure in partnership with Supply Chain and Engineering.
• Ensure measuring and test equipment is suitable, calibrated, controlled, and used correctly; improve inspection methods, fixtures, and equipment as needed.
• Oversee weld‑quality systems and inspection practices, including welder qualification, applicable AWS requirements, training, documentation, and coordination with the Weld Instructor.
• Assess quality risks for new products and process changes and support first‑article, prototype, validation, and production‑readiness activities.
• Develop, coach, and hold accountable the Quality team; establish standard work, clear priorities, effective floor coverage, and a strong sense of ownership for plant performance.
• Train leaders and employees on the quality management system, defect prevention, inspection requirements, escalation standards, and their responsibility for product quality.
• Maintain a visible presence on the manufacturing floor, respond rapidly to quality issues, and communicate facts, risks, containment actions, and recovery plans with urgency and clarity.
• Follow all safety and PPE requirements, stop unsafe work when necessary, and actively support Company…