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Quality Manager
GPAC is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States. The Manager of Quality will develop and oversee quality management systems in compliance with AS 9100, providing leadership and management of all aspects of company and supplier quality for continuous process improvement and high-quality output.
Responsibilities
Provides overall leadership and management of all aspects of company and supplier quality for continuous process improvement and high-quality output
Directs operations of Quality Department including quality levels of incoming materials, manufactured components and finished products
Establishes overall quality levels and specifications; conducts audits of systems and products to assure compliance with corporate, customer and industry requirements
Supervises quality assurance personnel
Implement and execute all AS 9100 procedures to identify and drive resolution of process inefficiencies, product quality issues, and vendor and customer issues
Manager is responsible for maintaining AS 9100 training
Proactively participates in AS 9100 management review pertaining to all respective department responsibilities
Provides leadership for the function
Holds regularly scheduled meetings that provide feedback on progress of operations
Continuously coaches and develops employees
Conducts timely performance reviews
Develops, implements, and monitors career path planning for employees
Provide quality engineering support to manufacturing scale-up activities to ensure that product processes have been developed appropriately and are transferred to manufacturing in accordance with user requirements, plus corporate and regulatory guidelines
Manages Contract reviews
Generate and assess quality metrics of trends that affect product quality
Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and various metrics
Establish new metrics when appropriate
Work with quote launch, risk mitigation meetings to include research and development during new product start-ups to ensure compliance with design controls, and establish key checkpoints for new programs and processes
Manage and communicate quality data from multiple sources to assist in the risk management and risk-based decision processes to ensure PO compliance
Manage the corrective and preventive action (CAPA), management review process, and internal quality audit programs
Manage Non-Conforming Material Reviews and MRB activities
Manage supply chain quality, supplier audits, supplier approvals and supplier corrective actions
Manage documentation control and record-keeping systems for engineering documents and company procedures; Includes Environmental control procedures
Participate in the development of test development
Manage the calibration activities and preventive maintenance of equipment
Manage the customer complaint handling/investigation process
Manage GIDEP alert process
Develops, implements and monitors company training of AS9100 work instructions. (QMS Documentation, BAE Opsec and Counterfeit avoidance)
Supports the safety committee
Qualification
Required
B.S. Business, Engineering or related field
Not less than ten years previous experience
Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills
Analytical problem solving required
Experience in Total Quality Management and process improvement
Read, write and understand English
Attention to detail
Able to drive to and visit customers
Basic math skills
Able to use keyboard and computer Literate
Preferred
IPC Certifications a plus
Company
gpac
gpac is a staffing and recruiting company that provides talent recruitment and development services.
Funding
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