Quality Manager

Quality Manager

The objective of the Quality Management System (QMS) Manager in a manufacturing plant is to develop, implement, maintain, and continually improve the Quality Management System to ensure compliance with ISO 9001:2015, AWS, and other industry standards for Integrated Metal Products. This role involves leading, training, and supporting all departments in key areas:

• QMS Management: Overseeing and improving the Quality Management System, managing audits, analyzing quality performance, and collaborating with various departments to address quality issues.
• QA Team Leadership: Leading and managing the Quality Assurance team.
• Continuous Improvement: Driving initiatives for ongoing quality and process improvements.
• Training and Support: Providing training and support to various departments to ensure compliance and quality excellence.

• Own, maintain, and continually improve the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System, including procedures, records, metrics, audits, and management review inputs.
• Manage quality support for production, including receiving, in-process, final, FAIR/FAT, and customer-required inspections.
• Lead root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, containment, verification of effectiveness, and recurrence-prevention activities.
• Ensure documented information, drawing revisions, redlines, work instructions, inspection records, and controlled forms are current, approved, available, and followed at point of use.
• Maintain calibration control for measuring and monitoring equipment, including recall, status identification, records, and out-of-tolerance response.
• Supervise, train, coach, and hold quality personnel accountable for inspection accuracy, documentation discipline, safety, 5S, and response time.
• Support supplier quality, incoming material issues, RMAs, supplier corrective actions, and supplier performance feedback.
• Track and report quality KPIs such as NCRs, rework, scrap, FPY, customer complaints, audit findings, calibration status, and corrective action aging.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Scheduling, and Project Management to resolve quality issues without bypassing formal change control.
• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, rework, delays, and customer escapes.

• Interpret blueprints, specifications, tolerances, GD&T, work orders, procedures, and customer requirements for quality acceptance decisions.
• Perform or support manual layout inspection of metal fabricated components, weldments, machined parts, and assemblies when required.
• Ensure quality documentation is complete, accurate, legible, retained, and retrievable per company and customer requirements.
• Conduct internal process audits, layered audits, product audits, and follow-up audits to verify sustained compliance.
• Communicate quality risks, production holds, escapes, and escalation items to leadership in a timely and factual manner.
• Support training and qualification needs related to inspection methods, QMS procedures, revised drawings, work instructions, and special customer requirements.
• Follow and enforce company safety policies, quality control policies, 5S practices, and work-area organization standards.
• Use common sense and sound judgment to solve problems involving multiple variables in standardized and non-standardized situations.
• Maintain professional cross-functional relationships and support change management through documented communication and evidence-based decisions.
• Perform other duties as assigned by leadership.

• Experience:
  
  Quality leadership experience in welding, fabrication, machining, assembly, or metal manufacturing preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 requirements and practical QMS implementation.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, specifications, tolerances, welding symbols, dimensional requirements, and GD&T.
• Ability to calibrate, verify, and use mechanical precision inspection devices, layout, or advanced inspection experience preferred.
• Root cause, corrective action, problem-solving, audit, and continuous improvement experience…