FlexStaff Staffing Services is seeking a Quality Manager to join our client's team, a registered ISO 9001 company that designs and manufactures products for the military and aerospace industry. This position is permanent, full-time, onsite at their Suffolk County location. 

The Quality Manager is responsible for implementing and executing inspection, testing, and evaluation methods to ensure that products adhere closely to company standards.

Responsibilities:

• Promote quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization.
• Set QA compliance objectives and ensure that targets are achieved.
• Maintain awareness of the business context and company profitability. 
• Assess suppliers' and own company's product specifications and customer requirements.
• Work with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers.
• Ensure compliance with national and international standards and legislation, including ISO 9001 
• Approve standards and establish clearly defined quality methods for staff to apply.
• Consider the application of environmental and health/safety standards.
• Define quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff.
• Set up and maintain controls and documentation. 
• Identify relevant quality-related training needs.
• Collate and analyze performance data and charts against defined parameters.
• Ensure tests and procedures are properly understood, carried out, and evaluated and that product modifications are investigated if necessary.
• Supervise technical staff in carrying out tests and checks.
• Write technical and management system reports.
• Bring together a staff of different disciplines and drive the group to plan, formulate, and agree to comprehensive quality procedures.
• Persuade reluctant staff to change their way of working to incorporate quality methods. Liaise with customers' auditors and ensure the execution of corrective action and compliance with customers' specifications.
• Establish standards of service for customers or clients.
• Prepare clear explanatory documents such as customers' charters.
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports.

Direct management of the QC Department

• Supervise QC staff.
• Set priority for inspection based on production meeting input.
• Supervise special testing – 
• Maintain Environmental lab – testing equipment (all kinds of testing per Customer or Engineering Dept)
• Supervise environmental testing performed by independent testing labs.
• Inspect reports for special jobs.
• Review and resolve/follow up on all nonconformance products from recent inspections from all departments.
• Supervise MRB processing.
• Conduct Contract review – quality issues as needed.
• Review customer specifications as needed.
• Supervise DMR processing.
• Supervise RMA evaluation and processing.
• Supervise final, in-process, and source inspection of assembly.
• Provide root cause and failure analysis.
• Provide incoming inspection, final inspection, and in-process inspection – if needed.