Testing Quality Manager

Position Summary

Directly lead and manage the functional Quality organization on a day-to-day basis to meet all NADCAP AC7101 QMS & ISO 17025 standards. Facilitate through Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service / Supply Chain leadership, full integration of Quality Management System (QMS) into value streams. Serve as the primary Quality leader for risk / problem identification, resolution, and loss reporting. Functional management representative responsible for compliance of products and processes used by the location internally and externally.

Base pay: $/yr – $/yr
Annual bonus: 15% of base

• Audit Lead, NADCAP AC7101, and ISO 17025 experience are absolutely mandatory.
• Root cause and failure analysis experience.
• Leadership of a team of 3 quality engineers and 3 inspectors/technicians.

• Manage budget, costs, and expenditures within the Quality function and applicable functional support requirements. Lead and drive productivity initiatives.
• Work with functional managers to design, implement and document procedures and methodology for process control, improvement adherence, and control for all phases of internal production, material testing, and external supply chain processes.
• Aggressively drive quality improvement initiatives, working closely within the organization to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Establish and implement applicable measurements / metrics for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers/employees to make sound product quality decisions.
• Lead effort to define and train employees on tools to perform root-cause analysis and problem solving to identify root cause and effective corrective actions/process improvements.
• Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality.
• Analyze customers’ product specifications to establish efficient, cost-effective requirements for ease of manufacture and material testing.
• Develop quality planning methods for all testing value streams.
• Develop process certification standards and assist in process certification to maintain NADCAP AC7101 and ISO 17025 compliance and certifications.
• Review customer purchase orders, contracts, and change requests to ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and testing plans.
• Interact with customers to identify opportunities to improve quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and testing personnel.

Full-time
On-site in a physical quality testing laboratory setting

South Gate, CA