Quality Manager

Location: Fayetteville

At Ariens Co, we build more than exceptional products – we create opportunities that impact careers. Our culture values innovative thinking, hard work and determination. We interact in teams, collaborate together and make decisions quickly.

We see growth potential in every team member, and are committed to supporting our employees with continuous training and advancement opportunities.
Speaking of people, you’re not just employee #1,762 to us. You’re family and your role is invaluable. Without exceptional people, we can’t continue to produce the amazing products we're known for around the world.
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* Job Description:

** We’re thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Quality Manager at our Fayetteville, TN location! As Quality Manager, you’ll set the tone for success—providing vision, direction, and motivation to achieve and exceed our daily and monthly quality goals.
** THE DAY TO DAY...
*** Set goals, monitor progress, and ensure accountability for teams and individual members
* Accountable for managing resources to ensure key quality department metrics are met
* Collaborate with internal and external customers’ quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design
* Make recommendations to modify customer part specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production
* Provide engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques
* Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources
* Effectively communicate and reinforce company commitment to quality improvement efforts
* Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes, review and analyze results and recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow up to verify effectiveness
* Participate and coordinate with other department (i.e.: Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Tooling, Operations, etc.) product Quality planning activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new systems
* Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action
* Participate directly in internal and external customer PPM improvement plan
* Responsible and accountable to the performance of the Quality team/group
* Assist the Quality Director in the implementation of APQP processes to better new product development and product launces
* Lead and mentor a team of Quality Engineers and or Technicians to drive supplier excellence
* Maintain and Enhance Ariens Co Supplier Quality Manual and Supplier Ratings systems with the Quality Director and purchasing teams
* Assist the purchasing team in the improvement of Ariens Co company supplier standards and drive their implementation into the supply base
* Lead and or conduct on site supplier evaluations both before supplier selection and after
* Oversee the Implement risk-based inspection strategies, leveraging internal process and supplier histories and data analytics to optimize efficiency
* Assist the Quality Director in establishing APQP, Control Plans, DFMEA, PFMEA, SPC and Other standard Quality Assurance tools to create a comprehensive Ariens Co Quality Assurance System
** THE QUALIFICATIONS...
*** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations and/or technical discipline
* Minimum of 5 years’ experience with certified quality management system (e.g. TS 16949, ISO)
* Certified Quality Engineer preferred
* Customer quality assurance experience
* Previous audit experience
* Technical knowledge of steel fabrication and assembly processes preferred
* Formal training and previous experience with part, sub-assembly, and final assembly audits preferred
* Background in GD&T preferred
* Understanding of manufacturing and/or lean processes is desired
* Ability to define and help resolve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
* Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and…