Incoming Inspection Manager

The Incoming Inspection Manager leads the Incoming Inspection function and ensures purchased components, materials, assemblies, and supplier-provided products meet engineering drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, supplier certifications, company standards, and applicable quality system requirements. This hands-on technical management role directs inspection activities, develops inspection personnel, improves throughput and capability, and serves as a technical resource for complex dimensional inspection, including CMM, vision measurement systems, portable coordinate measuring equipment, GD&T, and First Article Inspection (FAI).

• Manage daily Incoming Inspection activities, including workload, priorities, staffing assignments, backlog, throughput, and resource allocation to support business and production requirements.
• Lead and develop Incoming Inspection personnel while establishing clear expectations for quality, productivity, documentation, responsiveness, safety, and adherence to Quality procedures.
• Perform and oversee complex visual, dimensional, mechanical, and documentation-based inspections of incoming materials and products to verify conformance with engineering drawings, specifications, purchase orders, bills of material, inspection plans, and applicable Quality requirements.
• Program, operate, and provide technical leadership for CMMs, vision measurement systems, portable coordinate measuring systems, including FARO or comparable articulated measurement arms, and other precision metrology equipment.
• Lead First Article Inspection activities and develop and improve inspection plans, programs, work instructions, checklists, and inspection methods to increase consistency, capability, and efficiency.
• Ensure supplier certifications, test reports, inspection records, traceability documentation, lot/serial records, and other controlled Quality records are reviewed, completed, and maintained accurately.
• Oversee identification and control of nonconforming material and support material review, containment, return-to-vendor activities, root cause investigations, supplier corrective actions, and recurring defect resolution.
• Partner with Quality, Engineering, Purchasing, Warehouse, Production, Inventory, and Supplier Quality to resolve incoming material issues and improve inspection and supplier performance.
• Ensure inspection and measurement equipment is properly maintained, available, and within calibration requirements.
• Support internal, supplier, customer, and third-party audits by ensuring required inspection records, traceability, and objective Quality evidence are available.
• Maintain a safe, organized, and effective Incoming Inspection environment and perform other duties as assigned.

This position has direct supervisory responsibility for the Incoming Inspection function, including the Incoming Inspector Supervisor/Lead and Incoming Inspectors.

• Assign and prioritize work, monitor completion, and ensure adequate coverage for business requirements.
• Set performance, quality, productivity, and development expectations and provide coaching, feedback, technical mentoring, and performance management.
• Support hiring, onboarding, cross-training, succession planning, and continued development of inspection capability.
• Balance people leadership with hands‑on technical involvement and support complex inspection activities when required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing, Metrology, or a related discipline highly preferred. Equivalent directly related experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in…