What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Manager position at Confidential Search?
This hands-on leadership role supports a plastics manufacturing site. You’ll lead the site’s quality function, improve product consistency, and work closely with plant teams to reduce scrap and strengthen customer confidence.
What you’ll do:
• Lead quality assurance, quality control, laboratory operations, and the site quality team.
• Maintain and improve quality systems, documentation, material traceability, and audit readiness.
• Oversee incoming material and finished product testing, specifications, laboratory practices, and equipment calibration.
• Lead investigations into quality issues and customer complaints, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve process consistency, control contamination and material variability, and reduce scrap and rework.
• Support supplier quality, customer audits, new product qualifications, and employee training to build quality ownership across the plant.
What we’re looking for:
- A bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
- Five or more years of relevant quality experience in plastics manufacturing, including injection molding, polymer or rubber compounding, masterbatch/color concentrates, coatings, adhesives, sealants, specialty chemicals, or related materials manufacturing.
- Experience with recycled resins, material variability, contamination control, color consistency, and mechanical testing is preferred.
- Strong experience with quality systems, root-cause analysis, technical data, and continuous improvement is essential.
- Experience with raw materials, laboratory testing, contamination control, ISO 9001, and polymer testing standards is preferred.
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