HORST Engineering · 2 hours ago
Quality Manager
East Hartford, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expHORST Engineering is seeking a Quality Manager who will lead the department in implementing industry best practices for inspection methods and quality documentation. The role involves managing quality engineers, ensuring compliance with customer and industry specifications, and developing quality management systems.
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Direct quality engineers to support internal non-conformances, supplier quality non-conformances, customer escapes, and customer facing technical support
Manage daily inspection priorities to support operations. Balance assignments between first-piece inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, first-article inspection, receiving inspection, and Designated Quality Representative (DQR) over-inspection. Schedule third-party source inspection as required
Interpret customer/industry drawings, specifications, and requirements. Ensure compliance is captured in contract review, manufacturing operational sheet approval, process change requests, inspection method sheets, first article reports, PPAP workbooks and other associated quality assurance documentation
Develop, implement, and train on policies, processes and procedures pertaining documentation management, measurement, and monitoring of a quality management system
Develop and implement standard work for key daily quality activities such as CAPA, RCCA, NCMR/DMR, and RMA processing within the manufacturing software (EPICOR)
Lead and maintain compliance for internal, customer, supplier, and third-party auditing for product and processes. Maintain data, metrics, and scorecards for findings and performance
Onboard new hires, train, and cross-train team members to balance workloads and ensure progressive growth in staff. Maintain skills matrix and performance management tools for staff
Serve as the team’s subject matter expert, provide leadership to technical decision making, and serves as departmental approval for peer-reviewed work, policy deployment, or judgment calls
Qualification
Required
B.S. degree in engineering or similar technical discipline
7 to 10 years' experience with applying quality processes and procedures in an AS9100 aerospace manufacturing environment
Experience with compliance to Raytheon Technologies (Collins Aerospace/Pratt & Whitney Aircraft), GE Aviation, and aerospace OEM customers specifications, drawings, contracts, flow-downs, and other requirements including these use of customer portals
Understanding of part qualification processes such as PPAP (Production Part Approval Process), APQP (Advance Product Quality Planning) and FAI (First Article Inspection) reports
Familiar with Flight Safety and other critical component frozen processes management such as ESA, VSE, SPS
Strong acumen for inspection measuring methods, gage/equipment selection, calibration, gage control, measure system analysis (MSA), and statistical process control (SPC)
Experience leading compliance through internal/external auditing, management reviews, and the development of the tools, processes, and metrics for measuring compliance
Familiarity with export controls requirements including DFAR and ITAR
Experience building out an enterprise resources planning (ERP) and/or eQMS software to manage daily quality activities such as CAPA, NCMR, RMA, DMR, training records, audit records, scorecard, and other standard work
Preferred
Past supervisory experience highly desirable. Experience with indirect managing of individuals and teams will be considered
Familiar with EPCIOR a plus
Company
HORST Engineering
We are a contract manufacturer of precision machined components and assemblies for aerospace and other high technology industries.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Scott M. Livingston
President and CEO
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