Quality Control Manager

• Location 135 NORTHSIDE DR,Shelburne, VT, ,United States
• Base Pay $ - $ / Year
• Employee Type FT Exempt

Reports to:

VP of Manufacturing
Department:
Quality
Role Type:
Hands-on manufacturing quality leadership

We are seeking a hands-on Quality Manager to join our team and help guide the next phase of our growth in a tight-tolerance, precision machining environment. This role is floor-based and works directly within production alongside the people doing the work every day.

The Quality Manager plays a critical role in helping our teams succeed by providing structure, clarity, and support around how quality is built into our processes. This position partners closely with machinists, inspectors, engineers, R&D, and operations leadership to understand where things go wrong, why they go wrong, and how we can improve together.

• Drive results in First Pass Yield throughout the business.
• Work with teams to identify where failures occur across machining, finishing, assembly, and downstream processes.
• Help quantify rework and scrap using data and direct observation.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective actions in a collaborative, learning-focused way.

• Spend the majority of time on the production floor working directly with machinists, inspectors, and engineers.
• Support teams in the correct use of inspection tools, gages, fixtures, and calibration equipment.
• Actively verify and validate measurement methods to ensure confidence in results.
• Identify opportunities to improve measurement accuracy, repeatability, and overall yield, and work collaboratively to address them.

• Help ensure measurement systems across the facility are reliable and well understood.
• Maintain and support calibration practices, schedules, and records.
• Research and recommend improvements to inspection methods and equipment to better support our teams and products.
• Leverage CMM capability and data to better understand variation and process performance.

• Help build and mature a practical Quality Management System that reflects how the business actually operates.
• Create and maintain quality documentation that is useful, accessible, and supports daily work.
• Support internal audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement efforts as part of normal operations.

Experience with ISO 9001 and AS9100 principles is important, but the focus is on building a system that helps people succeed.

• Use quality data to help inform operational and business decisions.
• Develop and maintain meaningful quality metrics tied to yield, rework, scrap, and process stability.
• Partner with the Operations to connect quality outcomes to process, labor, and planning decisions.

• Work closely with Operations to support stable, repeatable processes.
• Partner with Engineering and R&D to ensure new designs and changes are manufacturable, measurable, and well understood before release.
• Support supplier quality efforts in coordination with Supply Chain leadership.

• Not an office-based quality role
• Not an inspection-only function
• Not a compliance-for-compliance-sake position

This role exists to help teams do great work consistently.

• Experience in tight-tolerance machining or precision manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of:
• GD&T and precision measurement
• CMM operation and data interpretation
• Measurement system accuracy and repeatability
• Process capability and variation
• Hands-on experience with calibration equipment, gages, and inspection tools.
• A track record of improving yield and reducing rework through process improvement and collaboration.
• Experience working within ISO 9001 and or AS9100-based quality systems.
• Comfortable working directly with operators and engineers to understand challenges and improve outcomes.
• Strong attention to detail paired with a supportive, problem-solving mindset.
• Solid knowledge of the 1911 platform.

• Manufacturing background with hands-on quality leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success improving quality outcomes in machining or precision manufacturing environments.
• Ability to communicate clearly, respectfully, and effectively across teams.