Quality Assurance Manager

Salary: $Excellent

Benefits: Health & Dental Insurance, 401K, Progression

Job Type: Direct Hire

Location: Allentown NJ

Job Start date: ASAP

Shift Pattern: 1st Shift – 7:30am to 4pm

We’re supporting our client, a leading instruments manufacturer based in Allentown, New Jersey who are looking for a Quality Assurance Manager to join their growing team. The successful Quality Assurance Manager will have experience establishing inspection priorities for products to ensure efficient operations and delegating tasks and assignments.

Responsibilities:

• Walks manufacturing floors and inspects parts in process.
• Measure physical parts against drawings to ensure accurate specifications.
• Performs visual quality audits.
• Inspects inbound electrical and mechanical material, in-process assemblies, and final product.
• Accepts/rejects finished products and discusses inspection results with the Production teams.
• Oversight and management of all reported customer concerns related to sales and shipments.
• Conducts root cause and corrective action investigations.
• Attends bi-monthly In-house Rejections meetings.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies the supervisor.
• Use of conventional and precision measuring instruments (calipers/measuring tape).
• Evaluate and recommend new vendors.
• Oversight and management of MRR, IPR, and CAR processes.
• Development and administration of KPI’s and metrics related to quality companywide.
• Organize and present Quality Defect Analysis to Company Officers during monthly meetings.
• Works with outside entities and human resources to source and interview candidates for hire.
• Trains new employees on departmental workflows and procedures
• Creates and updates all JHA’s and SOPs for the department.
• Keeps all records current pertaining to the Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) Program.
• Oversees and manages daily operations of the department; establishing inspection priorities for products to ensure efficient operations and delegating tasks and assignments.
• Reviews daily production logs to ensure proper documenting of labor.
• Maintains employees’ work schedules and approves time off requests while ensuring proper staffing levels.
• Reviews and approves employee’s timecards for payroll processing.
• Trains, monitors and continuously coach performance of staff including counseling when needed.
• Effectively communicates policies, expectations, and workloads of the department to create a successful team.
• Provides oversight and direction for the staff.
• Resolves manufacturing difficulties that may arise during construction of products.
• Provides flexibility and sets an example to staff by continually exemplifying punctuality, flexibility, and readiness to assist the team.
• Conducts ninety (90) day and annual employee performance reviews.
• Recommends qualified employees as they progress throughout the company.
• Enforces safety rules and guidelines and quality standards including all company policies and procedures.
• Ensures job assignments are completed in a safe and productive manner while maintaining high quality levels.
• Confers with management to establish production and quality control standards.
• Adheres to standardized work practices in a continuous improvement environment.
• Keeps work areas clean and organized while taking care of all equipment and facilities.