Quality Manager

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Regular Full Time Management Oceanside, Oceanside, CA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Company Overview

Solecta is an exciting early-stage, high-tech company focused on solving real customer issues and commercializing polymeric industrial filtration products. Solecta has manufacturing facilities in Oceanside, CA. The company is backed by True North Venture Partners, an investing firm that specializes in commercializing and scaling disruptive innovations.

Position Summary

The Quality Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and continuous quality improvement within a discrete manufacturing environment. This position provides direct leadership to Quality Engineers, Quality Technicians, and Inspection personnel, ensuring product conformity, process capability, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on, technically strong leader capable of driving measurable improvements in product quality, manufacturing yield, cost of poor quality, and overall process performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Other duties as assigned.

1. Quality Leadership & Management

• Lead, develop, and manage Quality Engineering, Quality Technicians, and Inspection personnel.
• Establish quality objectives, performance metrics, accountability, and improvement plans.
• Maintain effective quality management systems, procedures, documentation, and controls.
• Promote a culture of quality ownership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement throughout manufacturing.
• Foster highly collaborative working relationships across Manufacturing, Engineering, R&D, and other departments, promoting shared accountability, effective communication, and cross-functional problem-solving.

2. Quality Assurance & Quality Control

• Oversee incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities, including acceptance criteria and product release.
• Ensure compliance with engineering drawings, specifications, customer requirements, and applicable quality standards.
• Manage nonconforming materials, corrective and preventive actions, and product traceability.
• Lead the Material Review Board (MRB), including disposition of nonconforming materials, rework, scrap, and concessions.
• Administer the Change Control Board (CCB), ensuring disciplined evaluation, approval, implementation, and documentation of engineering and process changes.
• Ensure effective calibration, measurement systems, inspection methods, and quality records.

3. Customer Quality & Supplier Quality

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customer quality concerns, technical investigations, and corrective actions.
• Manage customer complaints, Return Goods Authorizations (RGAs), failure analysis, and warranty-related quality issues.
• Lead structured root-cause investigations and timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Oversee supplier quality performance, incoming material issues, and supplier corrective action requests.
• Prepare and communicate professional quality reports, investigation findings, and corrective action responses in English and Spanish.

4. Yield Improvement & Continuous Improvement

• Lead initiatives to improve first-pass yield, reduce scrap and rework, eliminate defects, and lower cost of poor quality.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, DMAIC, and statistical problem-solving methodologies.
• Facilitate Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and process capability studies.
• Utilize statistical process control (SPC), measurement system analysis (MSA), Pareto analysis, 5-Why, fishbone diagrams, and 8D problem-solving.
• Collaborate closely with Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Product Engineering, and R&D to improve process stability, reliability, manufacturability, and product quality through highly collaborative, cross-functional problem-solving.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, and R&D to support new product development, process improvements, and successful introduction of new products and manufacturing processes.
• Identify systemic quality risks and…