Plant Quality Manager

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Plant Quality Manager

Location : RAVENNA, OH, United States

Job Family : Quality

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Nov 4, 2025

Job ID : 60664

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Parker Hannifin – Parflex Division

When you join Parker Hannifin’s Parflex Division, you're not just working on hoses and tubing — you're helping power the systems behind some of the most important vehicles, machines, and technologies in the world. From under the hood of U.S. military trucks like the JLTV and HEMTT, to inside the wings of the F-35 fighter jet and C-130 Hercules, our thermoplastic and fluoropolymer hose products are trusted in the world’s most demanding applications.

You’ll also find Parker Parflex products supporting wind farms, solar fields, food production plants, and next-generation hydrogen vehicles. Whether it’s helping to land a Black Hawk helicopter safely or making sure air brake systems on semi-trucks perform in any weather, our team builds solutions that keep America moving, protected, and growing.

Parflex is part of Parker’s North American Hose Products Group, a global leader in motion and control technologies for over 100 years. At our facility, we focus on innovation, safety, and purpose-driven work. We offer stability, great benefits, and the satisfaction of building parts that truly make a difference.

Position Summary

Leads the plant-level quality function and champions the division’s quality philosophy and lean culture. Establishes, maintains, and optimizes an effective quality management system, implementing the division’s quality plan to achieve overall quality objectives and enhance products and services through ISO 9001, problem‑solving tools, prevention methods, quality‑at‑the‑source, and continual improvement. Serves as management’s representative for quality, managing department resources and coordinating QMS implementation across business units and locations to ensure cost‑effective quality and compliance. Reports to the Division Quality Manager and collaborates routinely with internal functions, customers, field sales, regulatory agencies, division/group/corporate leadership, and suppliers.

Please Note: This role does not qualify for Company sponsored work visa or relocation assistance.

Essential Functions

• Communicates customer, regulatory and organizational requirements to assure product quality, contract compliance and customer satisfaction.
• Oversees the effective documentation and implementation of the quality management system to assure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements and the standards set by corporate/division policies.
• Works with the leadership team to ensure that individuals performing functions affecting quality are trained and demonstrate the appropriate skills and performance results.
• Coordinates necessary plant personnel for internal, customer and third-party quality system audits.
• Maintains a corrective action system to analyze and correct nonconforming conditions and complaints.
• Implements the performance measurements necessary to effectively evaluate organizational performance and trends in product quality, services, customer satisfaction and the cost of poor quality. Uses the results of performance evaluation to target improvement efforts.
• Assess supplier capabilities and monitor supplier quality to ensure desired levels of performance.
  
  

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in an Engineering or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of Quality, Engineering or related experience.
• Knowledge of International Standard ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems (QS-9000 as applicable for automotive sector).
• Certification by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), or Certified Quality Manager (CQMgr) is preferred.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and quality practices.
• Experience with quality improvement tools and techniques (i.e., Lean, Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis).
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Must demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (https://www.eeoc.gov/employees-job-applicants)

Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.

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