Quality Manager

Eaton Corporation • Torrance, CA

26d • $125,000 - $183,000

About The Position

The Quality Manager ensures the quality of Eaton’s products through the development and enforcement of quality and manufacturing processes. In this role, you will develop and implement plans to achieve operation and group quality goals, direct the implementation and ongoing oversight of the Aerospace Quality Leading Indicators and Quality Best Practices. Ensure compliance to customer quality requirements and acts as principle contact for customer on quality issues. Manage customer communications, corrective actions, customer NOEs, supplier quality, shop floor quality, and Eaton PPAP.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $125000 - $183000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of five (5) years experience in Quality or in a Manufacturing environment.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Torrance, CA will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• IPC and JST knowledge.
• ANSI ESD S20.20 knowledge.
• Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems standards and Aerospace Regulatory Requirements.
• Read and understand Blueprints, Specifications, and Requirements.
• Advanced skills with MS Office software.
• Limited travel may be required (10%).
• Opportunity to gain exposure to and work with many cross functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum of three (3) years experience supervising a technical team.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• ASQ CQE or CMQOE.
• Quality System experience (e.g. AS9100, ISO 9001, TS16949).

Responsibilities

• Oversee, hire, and mentor all areas of quality personnel including return material (warranty), receiving inspection, final inspection, source inspection, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, customer quality, and quality compliance.
• Monitor overall plant quality progress and performance and makes corrections as needed.
• Act as a primary organizational contact for customer concerns and ensures appropriate corrective actions are deployed as necessary.
• Ensure organizational readiness for customer and other third party assessments.
• Deploy Eaton Business System tools, where appropriate or required, to improve Quality Management System effectiveness (i.e. EQS, QLI, PPAP, WISPER, etc.).
• Ensure that necessary organizational certifications and regulatory requirements are obtained, maintained, and improved. (i.e. QMS AS9100 certification, ESD controls, etc.).
• Develop and deploy effective FMEAs and Control Plans using Eaton PPAP to insure process controls and standard work is being utilized effectively on the shop floor.
• Develop, set and achieve goals associated with the manufacturing and supplier quality engineering teams that are aligned with the Quality Department and production teams.
• Ensure the promotion and awareness of customer and regulatory requirements throughout the organization.
• Direct the disposition and analysis of returned material, internal non-conforming product, and delegated MRB authority. Ensure that actions around top pareto items are identified and completed.
• Manages customer portals and customer scorecards to ensure actions are being completed and customer requirements are being met.
• Maintain and action quality metrics: FPY, Customer and Intra-site DPPM, CONC, Scrap $, Warranty $, Customer Corrective Action OTD, Customer Audits, Supplier DPPM, Supplier Corrective Action OTD.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees