Fieldpiece is hiring a Quality Director to drive Quality Management System (QMS) effectiveness to ensure new products are functional, reliable, and durable ahead of product launches. The Quality Director is responsible for Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Supplier Management and managing a team of 5. The ideal candidate has 10 years of engineering experience with 5 years focused on quality for new and sustaining products in an OEM environment. You’re skilled at problem solving, risk analysis and working with internal teams and external suppliers.

Recognized as a Best Places to Work in SoCal in 2023, Fieldpiece has been delivering rugged, professional-grade, and feature-rich tools and testing instruments to HVACR technicians since 1990. HVACR pros trust us to help them do their jobs better, faster, and easier with tools like spanning meters, manifolds, leak detectors, scales, and more. Awarded the Kepner-Tregoe Critical Thinking Cultural Excellence Award, we utilize this framework to improve designs and solve problems.

We offer a flexible work schedule with two days’ work-from-home, a hire-to-retire philosophy, an on-site music room, and a kitchen full of snacks to keep you charged throughout the day. We're a team of innovators where curious experimenting is celebrated, learning is encouraged, and initiative is rewarded.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Quality team including hiring, allocating resources and performance management.
• Manage supplier quality by building relationships, improving processes, creating quality agreements, conducting audits, and maintaining records.
• Write Product Quality Plan & Test Cases for inspecting, testing, and evaluating product compliance to all quality requirements (accuracy, reliability, and durability).
• Drive quality initiatives to resolution (corrective/preventive actions, new product validation, process improvement, documentation, and internal/external audits) and provide concise, reliable information to inform decisions.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and engineering teams to create and approve all requirements.
• Design, specify, maintain, and utilize inspection and test fixtures/equipment.
• Work closely with Engineering and contract manufacturers to resolve product issues before product launch through skilled application of Advanced Product Quality Planning, various preventive quality tools (FMEA, DOE, DFM), and PPAP.
• Manage and conduct Design Verification & Validation that encompasses multiple test points (internal, contract manufacturer, beta testing, third party certifications).

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• 10 years of engineering experience – preferably in R&D for devices, tools, or instruments.
• 5 years of quality expertise including QA, QE, and QMS.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Tactical experience with key statistical-based quality tools, cause-and-effect diagrams, histograms and pareto charting, scatter diagrams, fishbone diagrams, statistical correlation of causality, Lean, and Kepner-Tregoe (KT) tools.
• Strong decision-making, organizational, time management, reporting, and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across the organization and external vendors, negotiating improvements after considering risks.
• Ability to travel globally (up to 20%).

Why Join Us:

• Make a tangible impact working on innovative products in a collaborative environment.
• Comprehensive benefits package and bonuses.
• Excellent benefits including immediate vesting in a matching 401k and healthcare premiums subsidized at 80% for you and your family and more.
• Hire to Retire philosophy that includes personal career development plans.
• Music program that pays for onsite guitar and piano lessons for you and your family - take a break in the music room!

The California base annual salary range for this role is currently $170,000-190,000 plus bonus. Pay scales are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members. We can share more information about our bonus program and benefits during the hiring process.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability