Senior Quality Manager

Overview

The successful candidate will play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the quality management system and ensuring product conformity across the site's value streams in a precision manufacturing environment.

• Product conformity across all manufacturing value streams within the facility.
• Maintain and manage the Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with relevant industry and customer standards (e.g., ISO-based systems, regulatory, and certification bodies).
• Support and manage the calibration, quality control, and quality assurance systems
  .
• Partner with corporate quality teams to ensure appropriate QMS alignment across the enterprise.

• Develop and implement quality standards and practices for inspection, testing, and product/process evaluation.
• Support the Quality Inspection function to ensure products and processes comply with QMS requirements.
• Analyze customer/purchase orders to ensure compliance with both QMS and specific customer requirements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in product and process efficiencies, focusing on the reduction of costs associated with defects, rework, and scrap.

• Represent Quality on cross-functional teams for continuous improvement projects, material review board (MRB), and Root Cause/Corrective Action (RCCA) for internal and customer concerns.
• Establish and manage the statistical process control (SPC) system for process monitoring.
• Prepare required reports on QMS performance, RCCA progress, and key quality metrics.
• Serve as an internal auditor for process and product auditing.

• Experience with First Article Inspection (FAI) processes or equivalent product validation.
• Active participation in the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process.
• Proficiency in standard office software (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Perform other duties, relating to Quality Assurance and Control, as required.

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree (typically in a STEM or Business field) and a minimum of 4 years of prior relevant experience in a manufacturing quality role, preferably within a highly regulated manufacturing industry.
• Compliance: Must meet necessary requirements for working on sensitive manufacturing projects.
• Technical Expertise:
• Demonstrated experience with major Quality standards (e.g.,
  ISO 9001:2015, or industry-specific equivalents
  ).
• Experience with Continuous Improvement (CI) Tools (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma principles).
• Advanced expertise in Root Cause Problem-solving/Corrective Action (RCCA).
• Significant experience in data, trend analysis
  , and designing/improving QMS processes.
• Communication: Able to effectively communicate and deliver presentations to senior site leadership.