Quality Manager

Ambrell Corporation•Rochester, NY

2h•$90,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with the company’s quality programs, goals, and objectives. The role leads activities to meet quality performance goals, including quality targets, cost of quality, scrap, rework, customer returns, warranty returns, and defective material returns (DMRs). This work includes vendor quality initiatives, variation reduction, formal problem solving, and root-cause analysis. The position develops and applies prevention-based quality assurance tools and processes; oversees material and component inspection; leads quality improvement projects; and serves as a primary resource for quality problem identification, resolution, loss reporting, and continuous improvement. It also develops procedures and standards for process control, testing, inspection, evaluation, and compliance, and works with internal and external customers to ensure requirements are met. The job is onsite in Rochester, New York. No relocation package is offered.

Requirements

Seven years of experience.
Proficiency in the manufacture and testing of electrical and mechanical products.
Strong ownership and accountability.
Excellent autonomous problem-solving ability.
Ability to liaise effectively and assemble individuals and cross-functional teams to solve problems and achieve results.
Professional discretion in supplier and customer relationships as a quality and manufacturing representative of Ambrell.
Energetic, curious, resourceful, creative, and self-motivated, with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and apply prevention-based quality assurance tools and processes to ensure processes and products meet customer, company, and safety requirements.
Oversee material and component inspection processes and inspectors.
Complete process improvement projects that support companywide quality improvement initiatives.
Serve as a primary quality control resource for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting, and continuous improvement.
Design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.
Perform root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.
Report quality issues, trends, and losses using in-process defect data.
Track, analyze, and lead initiatives for quality and customer compliance issues within production processes.
Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, evaluation, and compliance.
Work with internal customers to identify quality improvement opportunities and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.
Work with internal and external customers to ensure compliance.
Develop appropriate process documentation to ensure quality standards are met.
Ensure activities comply with ISO 9001 standards.