Position Description
Position Title: Quality Manager / ISO MGMT Rep
Department: Quality
Reports To: Executive Vice President
Position Summary:
Manages the Quality Management System at Preco Inc. Carries out a responsive quality effort to process profitable customer orders and help Preco exceed customers’ expectations. Works on operations, improving profitability, efficiency, and productivity. Interfaces with Sales, Engineering, Production and other business units.
Primary Responsibilities:
Provides Leadership:
- Provides coordination of quality procedures, instructions, specifications, and standards to ensure conformance to ISO standards and customer specifications/requirements
- Leads QMS steering team
- Assists in resolution of equipment/technical/personnel problems
- Assists in guiding the activities of Preco Inc.
Provides Technical Support Services:
- Oversee and maintain quality planning, non-conforming material, document and data control and corrective action systems within Preco
- Facilitate teams for root cause analysis and corrective action determinations and implementation
- Specifies and maintains necessary QC equipment to ensure conformance to customer specifications
- Oversees and performs (external and internal) auditing functions
- Regularly analyzes services provided for customers to develop new ways to better satisfy customer needs (new/different equipment, alternative work methods, improved quality/service, etc.)
- Works with customers in determining feasibility of new/difficult applications; assists in setting up complex/difficult jobs
- Supports the improvement of shop floor work flow and existing laser processes; specification, justification, and acquisition new equipment, rework/improvement of existing equipment
Provides Administrative Support:
- Provides periodic quality summary reports for Management Review
- Educates/trains/coaches employees on quality and continuous improvement concepts
- Designs, organizes, and completes employee training programs
- Oversees technical writing projects concerning quality and production procedures
- Completes other tasks as assigned by supervisor
Hiring Qualifications:
- Four year technical degree
- Five to ten years industrial/supervisory experience with five years quality related experience
- Must have ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and/or FDA experience
- Strong background in statistics, quality inspection methods, inspection equipment and AQL
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, leadership, written communication and computer skills
- Good understanding of laser processing equipment and methods and dimensional tolerancing desired
- 10% travel
All Preco, Inc. – Somerset employees are empowered to stop production and notify their supervisor/manager if an unsafe act or product quality concern is occurring. Also, each member of the Preco – Somerset team is responsible for identifying continuous improvement opportunities and participating in problem solving teams as necessary.