Duties and Responsibilities Lead quality planning efforts throughout production environment to ensure all applicable contract requirements and deliverables are met.
Oversee the Quality Management System for effectiveness and drive necessary updates to meet internal and external rules and regulations.
Lead Quality initiatives throughout production, ensuring adequate resources, tools and training in place to ensure consistent process and quality of product.
Lead root cause/failure analysis process initiatives to minimize production downtime and improve production quality.
Work with suppliers to help formulate quality standards to help minimize time and cost of inspection and reduces suppliers’ defects.
Coordinate efforts with supply chain to qualify new suppliers, develop supplier programs and support supplier improvement efforts.
Review, analyze, and summarize data in order to create data-driven decisions within the production environment.
Participate in and oversee continuous improvements projects to increase productivity, eliminate scrap, and reduce rework operations.
Develop new inspection and testing procedures for products. Uses the information from testing and inspection reports to investigate the cause of defective products.
Seeks to improve the quality of the delivered product as well as internal processes and instructions.
Develops and implements processes and controls in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 guidelines and is responsible for yearly registrar audits.
Oversees and participates in external audits by our customers.
Oversee, motivate, mentor and evaluate Quality Department’s employee’s performance. Education/Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience to meet managerial expectations.(Electrical Engineering preferred)
Must have strong experience in electronics manufacturing
Preferred: Experience implementing QMS/TQM from ground up would be helpful.