Quality Assurance Manager

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager
Job ID: 13944
Job Location: Jupiter, FL
Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:
Our team is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to support our West Palm Beach, FL facility. This individual will be considered a key element of the Quality organization's leadership team. As a leader, you will have additional responsibilities beyond the typical supervisory activities. These activities will test your leadership and management skills, your work efficiency and the dynamics of problem solving.

This is a hands on position that requires the incumbent to lead, educate and support a Quality Inspector group to ensure perfectly executed work in all opportunities with a continual focus to ensure all employees focus on attention to detail, safety, environment and process discipline throughout all assigned areas.

Essential Functions:

• Directly supervises unionized hourly employees performing quality inspection duties in Receiving Inspection, In-Process Manufacturing Inspection, Assembly & Test Inspection, Precision Measurement, Nondestructive Testing and Calibration
• Reviews inspection and production schedules and manpower resources. Assigns and supervises employees to maximize inspection objectives, maintain quality and attain output requirements.
• Communicates road blocks and corrective actions in a timely manner to stakeholders.
• Audits, evaluates and monitors the capability of internal inspectors to assure conformance to product specifications and workmanship standards.
• Participates in establishing and modifying inspection methods and processes by recommending changes in materials, equipment and procedures.
• Maintains a variety of reports, records and inspection documentation to reflect schedules, performance and methods.
• Establishes training plans and assures appropriate training is delivered as required.
• Reviews and analyzes corrective action reports in an effort to reduce and eliminate defects
• Participates in value stream and process mapping activities to improve flow of new and existing processes.
• Ensures the personnel, equipment, and technical resources are available to enable inspector success through capital and operating expense planning
• Participates in cause and corrective action activities, failure investigations and special projects assigned in support Corrective/Preventive Action Committees (CACs/PACs) and continuous improvement activities

Depending on the job assignment, responsibilities of this position may also include:
• Ability to travel to customer and sister-site locations, estimated

Qualifications:

• This position requires a Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to work on either 1st or 2nd shift.
• Successful candidates for this position will have some combination of the following experience/knowledge:
• Prior leadership/supervisory experience.
• Experience with inspection equipment, including borescope, precision measurement equipment, and attribute gauging.
• Experience with test and Inspections practices and methods (in process, 1st article, receiving inspections, Non-Destructive Testing).
• Experience with calibrations requirements and controls for calipers, micrometers, height gauges, and other inspection equipment to verify conformance to prints.
• Thorough knowledge of ISO 9001, AS9100 standards and the ability to work and evolve process within them.
• Reading of blueprints, data, manuals, Quality Requirements Documents or other materials to determine specifications, procedures or instruments required for inspection.
• Hands-on working experience in a manufacturing environment and a corresponding understanding of manufacturing processes is essential.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with auditing practices and Process Certification is desired.
• Experience developing of business cases, facilitating and supporting continuous improvement initiatives for production optimization, including visual factory is desired.
• Experience with the implementation and execution of Layered Process Audits