Job Description
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
Quality Management System
- Lead by example, demonstrate core values daily
- Promote continuous improvement
- Promote Risk-based thinking
- Interpret and implement ISO 9001 standards
- Coordinate and support surveillance and recertification audits conducted by external providers
- Evaluate audit findings and implement appropriate corrective actions
- Facilitate Management Review meetings
- Maintain the quality metrics dashboard spreadsheet monthly
- Maintain the ISO QMS board postings
- Manage internal audit process
- Analyze data to identify areas for improvement in the quality system
- Develop, recommend, and monitor corrective and preventive actions
- Facilitate CAPA and OFI review meetings
- Quality records retention and control
- Maintain calibration program for measuring equipment and schedule annual calibration
- Monitor risk management activities (ISO 9001:2015)
- Promote a quality culture
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Internal Quality
- Determine personnel resource needs for the inspection function
- Manage the quality function budget
- Select quality equipment and inspection tools, and software, to support the inspection team
- Aim to make production employees responsible for managing their own quality standards, i.e. QATS and FVMT Guidelines and Workmanship Standards
- Identify quality training needs and organize training to meet quality standards
- Issue quality alerts
- MRB Input
- Support continuous improvement activities
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Supplier Quality
- Support Purchasing in supplier selections
- Work with suppliers to ensure quality requirements are met
- Visit suppliers to conduct supplier quality audits
- Communicate when suppliers are not meeting quality standards, and actions to be taken
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Customer Quality
- Support customers' supplier audits
- Investigate customer complaints and non-conformance issues, and root cause customer returns
- Develop and implement customer corrective actions
- Send out customer questionnaires every 18 months
- Maintain customers' quality notes matrices
- Drive quality into project activities to ensure product meets customers' requirements
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Training and Development
- VT Level II certification and maintenance for the inspection team
- Romer CMM training for the inspection team
- Recommends development training for the quality team
- Improve self through training and development
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Secondary Responsibilities: - Manage and administer the Welder Workmanship Training program
- Assist CWI in the development of weld procedures and welder qualifications
- Maintain schedules for welder continuity quarterly and annual vison exams
- Maintain schedule for annual weld machine calibrations
- Manage welding qualification-related costs
- Assist with review of specifications and customers' deliverables requirements
- Develop forms, checklists, process flow diagrams, etc., as needed to improve performance designated areas
- Perform CWI as needed
- Answer technical questions from the inspection team
- Serve as a resource for other departments
- Work with manufacturing department leaders to improve quality and reduce rework
- Serve as member of management safety team
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Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Business Administration, or similar/related program required
- In lieu of Bachelor's degree, a combination of an Associate degree with proven work experience in the metal fabrication industry with hands on operation and supervision responsibilities in multiple fabrication processes may be substituted; specifically in quality, welding, machining, and finishing operations
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Experience:
- Production or engineering experience in a custom sheet metal fabrication business is desired
- Five plus years' experience in managing or supervising quality assurance and quality control in a manufacturing setting
- Familiarity with welding, fabrication, and machining specifications preferred
- Knowledge of metals and raw materials along with the understanding of production processes, and costs of manufacturing is a plus
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of industry principles such as lean manufacturing and six sigma methodologies is preferred
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Specialized Experience:
- Knowledge and application of ISO 9001:2015 Standard
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- Proficiency in Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and an enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems; Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) preferred
- Accurate manufacturing blueprint reading experience required
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- Working knowledge of American Welding Society and Military welding procedures and specifications preferred
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- Excellent communication skills at all levels within an organization
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