Manager, Quality & Safety

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

The Manager, Quality & Safety is a critical leadership role responsible for building, owning, and continuously improving the quality and safety ecosystems across Misumi Americas. This role directly impacts the organization's ability to deliver consistent, high-quality products to customers by leading a team of Supplier Quality Engineers, stewarding the Quality Management System (QMS), and ensuring manufacturing partners meet rigorous performance standards.

Beyond quality, this role establishes and drives a comprehensive Safety Management Program across all Misumi Americas facilities, ensuring full regulatory compliance and a proactive safety culture that protects employees and operations.

At a strategic level, this position plays a key role in the integration of Misumi and Fictiv quality systems, processes, and documentation — helping to unify two organizations into a cohesive, scalable operational framework.

• Directly managing a team of Supplier Quality Engineers (SQEs), including hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development
• Setting clear goals and expectations for each SQE aligned with organizational quality objectives, and conducting regular 1:1s and performance check-ins
• Coaching SQEs on effective supplier communication, corrective action follow-through, and audit execution
• Owning the end-to-end Supplier Quality program, setting strategy and standards that SQEs execute against including manufacturing partner onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Reviewing and approving corrective action responses (CARs) escalated by SQEs, ensuring root cause rigor and closure effectiveness
• Establishing and maintaining manufacturing partner quality KPIs and presenting performance trends to senior leadership
• Undertaking special projects as required

• Ensuring that the Misumi QMS remains relevant and is bringing value to the organization in supporting both efficiency and effectiveness in our activities, while meeting customer, industry, and regulatory requirements
• Ensuring that risks and opportunities are continually being identified and addressed, using the QMS as a significant risk management tool
• Ensuring that Misumi’s evolving QMS remains compliant with the requirements of all internationally recognized standards we are registered to, or claim compliance with
• Evaluating, recommending and executing any integration of the Misumi QMS and Fictiv QMS
• Managing internal and external audits to ensure that the Misumi US organization is adhering to our QMS requirements and those of our customers and of the ISO
  9001 standard
• Maintaining and publishing audit primers to ensure that all auditees are prepared before external audits
• Ensuring customer-specific requirements are reviewed and integrated into our QMS
• Identifying and implementing improvements to business processes, particularly those which are in the scope of Misumi’s QMS
• Ensuring that QMS documents remain simple but effective, and are updated as processes change
• Evaluating, recommending and executing any consolidation of document management processes and systems between Misumi and Fictiv e.g. should we standardize on Intellect for internal document control and the Misumi supplier portal for supplier-facing documents?
• Collaborating with People Ops to ensure that training material exists where and when needed, and is delivered with subsequent verification of the effectiveness of the training
• Reviewing internal and external responses to QMS nonconformances and ensuring they are complete, adequate, and accurate, and that actions taken are verified as being effective
• Identi…