Quality and Safety Manager Job Starkville area,Mississippi USA,Quality Assurance

Position Function:

The Quality and Safety Manager is responsible for leading a comprehensive Quality Management System and site safety program for the MSU Advanced Composites Institute. This position serves as the organization's AS9100 Management Representative and is responsible for ensuring compliance with AS9100 standards, customer requirements, university policies, applicable regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. The Quality and Safety Manager develops, administers, and continuously improves quality assurance processes, internal audit programs, corrective and preventive action systems, document control procedures, and nonconformance management activities.

The position serves as the primary coordinator for certification audits, customer audits, management reviews, and quality performance reporting. In addition, the position serves as ACI's Safety Manager and is responsible for developing and maintaining a safe working environment through implementation of safety policies, training programs, hazard assessments, incident investigations, risk mitigation activities, and regulatory compliance efforts.

Salary Grade
:15

Please see Staff Compensation Structure or Skilled Crafts and Service Maintenance Compensation Schedule for salary ranges. For salary grade UC, these positions are "Unclassified" and salary ranges are determined by the hiring department.

Department Profile:

The Advanced Composites Institute, or ACI, focuses on pioneering transformational composite technologies in a variety of critical sectors, including aerospace, civil, military, energy, automotive and other emerging markets. It was created at MSU with the donation of a revolutionary stitched composite process and equipment originally developed at NASA by pioneering scientist Marvin

B. Dow.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Establish and develop programs that meet compliance with regulatory expectations for quality, yielding ISO
9001 and AS9100 Certifications as well as implement and maintain safety policies and procedures that comply with local, state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules and regulations.

Serve as ISO
9001 and AS9100 Management Representative: ensure that processes needed for the Quality Management System are established, implemented and maintained, report on the performance of the Quality Management System, ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements throughout the organization.

Develop, plan, implement and conduct preventive care, safety, and compliance training; and training programs on topics such as inspection techniques and proper documentation.

Evaluate production methods and recommend improvements based on standards that guarantee work is performed in accordance with approved manuals, internal policies and procedures, contract documents, and good engineering practices.

Attend regular Operations meetings to discuss QA/QC issues and provide support as needed; and conduct regular safety meetings, audits (including the facilitation of customer audits), and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action, and implement follow up assessments.

Develop sampling plans, quality standards, and process control instructions for use by Operations to monitor and reduce variations.

Ensure compliance with all environmental health and safety and regulatory requirements.

Collaborate with management to develop an Emergency Action Plan and serve as primary contact for project site injury and incident notification, investigation, and case management.

Responsible for electronic document management that include safety inspections, reports, violations, corrective actions, and correspondence, quality documentation (procedures, policies, audit findings, updates, etc.)

Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibility

Position requires collaborative interaction at all levels of organization to expedite timely targets.

The above essential duties are representative of major duties in this position. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job. Not all of the duties may be assigned to a position.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Education:

Bachelor’s Degree
Experience (yrs.) 3 years related work experience in manufacturing technology work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

3 years or greater experience in aerospace…