Quality Assurance Manager

Our Operations professionals manage and support the creation of our world-class flow control products in a low-volume, high mix manufacturing environment. These folks are our manufacturing leaders - shop managers, purchasing professionals, production and demand planners, engineers, and quality professionals who value working with other top manufacturing professionals and helping solve complex production problems. In addition to a work environment that promotes learning and promote-from-within opportunities, we understand what matters to our production workers: competitive, market-drive pay, outstanding benefits, and a stable and dependable job place supported by over 140 years of being in business.

If you are looking for a place to call home in your next manufacturing role, come and explore all that Chesterton has to offer!

Our benefits offering include:

• “Work Today, get paid tomorrow” -
  withdraw up to 30% of your earned daily wages the next day after you work rather than waiting for pay day!
• Chesterton Student Loan Repayment Program
• BCBS Medical Coverage
• Delta Dental
• 401K savings plan with a Chesterton contribution
• PTO including vacation sick, time, 11 paid holidays, and paid to time off to volunteer for causes
• Vision insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
• HSA & FSA options to cover additional medical costs
• Parental leave for moms and dads to be
• "Grandternity" leave for new grandparents
• Hiring referral bonuses (up to $3,000 for select roles)

A host of other fringe benefits including legal services, pet insurance, Chesterton relief fund for employees in need, and more!

This position is focused on our customers as it is responsible for driving all end of line quality assurance. Embedded in the Product Line Production team, the Manager, Quality Assurance (QA) ensures products consistently meet or exceed customer specifications/expectations and external certification standards while complying with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements. The Manager, QA leads factory-specific efforts to implement the Chesterton Quality System.

This Manager, QA will be leading factory specific activities related to preventing defects and reducing variation & waste in the manufacturing processes. The Manager QA leads factory-specific efforts to ensure that production line operators are properly equipped to assume responsibility and accountability for quality at the source.

Job Model: On-Site

On-Site positions will require employees to work on-site for each of their scheduled shifts.

• Consistent, regular and punctual attendance is an essential function of this job.
• Manage and lead all factory quality activities and consistently assess the overall effectiveness of these activities.
• Lead efforts to identify and rectify gaps in quality training and information accuracy that impact the line operator’s ability to deliver quality product.
• Communicate with customers, suppliers, certification bodies and agencies regarding factory specific quality and compliance issues.
• Ensure robust and accurate process control systems are deployed to identify and rectify abnormal processing conditions.
• Serve as a critical advocate and subject matter expert regarding the Chesterton Quality System Policies, Standards and Requirements.
• Lead efforts to involve line operators in the development and implementation of factory specific systems that demonstrate improved performance results associated with the Chesterton Quality System policies, standards and requirements.
• Proactively and thoroughly execute performance management practices to address issues that have a negative impact on our ability to meet quality requirements.
• Effectively utilize data to…