Quality Manager

Lead the LBT quality function and build a prevention-based culture of quality at the source across aluminum trailer and pressure-vessel operations. Own the quality management system and ensure purchased materials, fabricated components, work in process, and finished products comply with customer, engineering, ISO, AWS, ASME, regulatory, and Company requirements. Build the systems, records, and operating discipline required to support current commercial products and future military and government work.

Partner directly with Operations and Engineering to eliminate recurring defects, improve process capability, and deliver measurable gains in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Own, maintain, and continually improve an ISO 9001-compliant quality management system, including procedures, process controls, document and record control, internal audits, management review, risk-based thinking, corrective action, and certification readiness.
• Serve as the plant's senior quality leader and primary point of contact for customers, ISO registrars, ASME Authorized Inspectors, 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 plans, applicable ISO, AWS, and ASME code requirements, military or government quality clauses, and all relevant regulatory requirements.
• Maintain effective contract review, configuration and change control, product identification, material and weld traceability, inspection status, nonconforming-material control, and required quality records throughout the manufacturing process, including material test reports and objective evidence of product conformity.
• Lead internal, customer, ISO registrar, ASME, and government audits; maintain audit readiness and 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 in accordance with applicable AWS codes and customer requirements, including WPS, PQR, welder performance qualifications, continuity records, inspection, NDE coordination, training, documentation, and coordination with the Weld Instructor.
• Own and maintain the ASME quality control program for applicable pressure-vessel work, including compliance with ASME Section VIII, Division 1 and applicable National Board requirements; material control and traceability; examination and inspection points; code documentation and data reports; coordination with the Authorized Inspector; and readiness for code stamping and audits.
• Develop and sustain the quality-system capabilities needed for future military and government work, including contract-quality review, customer and regulatory flow-downs, configuration and change control, first-article inspection, product and material traceability, objective-quality evidence, record retention, and government source-inspection support.
• Assess quality risks for new products and process changes and lead quality planning for first-article, prototype, validation, and production-readiness activities, including future military and…