Quality Control Manager

Job Summary

The Quality Control Manager owns the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of Mesa’s quality control function across manufacturing and testing operations. This role leads quality personnel, establishes and enforces quality systems, and ensures compliance with internal standards, ISO requirements, and customer specifications. The manager is accountable for quality performance, drives root cause resolution, and partners cross‑functionally with Production, Engineering, and Supply Chain to improve product reliability and operational efficiency.

• Manage and lead the Quality Control team, ensuring alignment with departmental goals and production targets.
• Establish, monitor, and report on key performance metrics to provide clear visibility into quality performance, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Own resource planning and allocation, including staffing, workload prioritization, and daily execution to meet production and quality requirements.
• Support budget planning and cost‑management initiatives, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining quality standards.
• Drive process improvement initiatives across quality inspection, testing, and reporting workflows to increase efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Lead problem‑solving efforts, including root cause analysis and CAPA, ensuring timely resolution of quality issues and prevention of recurrence.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Production, Engineering, and Supply Chain to align workflows, improve product quality, and reduce operational risk.
• Ensure compliance with Mesa standards, ISO requirements, and customer specifications, maintaining audit readiness at all times.
• Develop and grow team capability through coaching, training, performance feedback, and development planning.
• Provide regular reporting and escallate critical issues impacting quality, delivery, or safety to senior leadership in a timely manner.
• Support strategic initiatives, including new product introductions, process scaling, and operational readiness efforts.

• 4‑Year/Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or a related field (or 5+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree).
• 5 years of quality experience in a manufacturing or technical environment.
• 3 years of leadership experience required; formal management experience preferred.

• 2 years of formal management experience and/or strong lead/foreman level experience.
• Honorably discharged veterans.
• ASQ certification (CQT, CQI, CQE, CQA, or CMQ/OE).

Safety‑sensitive positions require initial drug screening as a condition of employment and may be subject to random testing in accordance with company policy.

• Competitive base pay.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off – including vacation, holidays, parental leave, and bereavement.
• 100% employer‑paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Life insurance.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage.
• Critical illness and accident insurance.
• Annual evaluations with the opportunity for a pay increase based on performance.

• Constant: seeing, hearing, and use of hands to type, touch, handle, or feel.
• Frequent: talking, sitting, standing, walking, or moving throughout the facility.
• Occasional: bending or stooping, squatting or crouching, reaching, kneeling, pushing, pulling, occasional walking, climbing or balancing.

• General manufacturing working conditions.

• Computer.
• Phone.
• Microsoft applications.

• Willing to consent to and pass a background check and drug screening.
• Possess a customer‑focused attitude, with high level of professionalism and discretion.
• Willing to work Monday‑Friday (set schedule).

Less than 3 direct reports.

Mesa Power Solutions is an equal‑opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship status, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status. EOE/M/F/D/V