Quality & Safety Manager
About The Position
The Quality & Safety Manager provides quality tools, methods, and data to help ensure defect-free products and ongoing customer satisfaction. The role monitors and maintains quality processes and provides direction to materials, manufacturing, engineering, and suppliers to meet quality objectives. It develops, executes, and maintains product and process quality plans, performance metrics, and review processes that drive continuous improvement. The manager reviews quality documentation, advises technical staff using quality data and trends, and champions training in quality tools. The position serves as a manufacturing focal point for analyzing quality issues, identifying root causes, and implementing permanent corrective and preventive actions. It also works with Supply Chain Management on supplier selection, development, strategy, and improvement plans; performs inspections as required; and mentors quality inspectors and technicians. The role maintains compliance with quality, environmental, occupational health and safety, operational, and regulatory standards. It conducts regular Safety Committee meetings to review management-system performance and sustainability, assesses opportunities to improve management systems, and provides compliance documentation such as CoCs, RoHS, REACH, TSCA, and Conflict Minerals materials upon request.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline.
- At least five years of experience in a technical field, with significant hands-on quality and manufacturing experience.
- Supervisory experience.
Nice To Haves
- Electrical Engineering degree is preferred for this location.
- Master’s degree is a plus.
- SAP experience is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Review documentation for compliance with quality standards.
- Provide technical staff with expertise and data to influence product, sub-assembly, and component designs using process and product quality data and trends.
- Champion and train others in quality tools, including SPC, problem solving, DFx, and FMEA.
- Analyze manufacturing quality issues, determine root causes, and establish permanent corrective and preventive actions.
- Partner with Supply Chain Management on supplier selection and development.
- Participate in supply chain strategy development and execute plans addressing performance, improvement opportunities, and new requirements.
- Inspect incoming components, raw materials, fabricated parts, and in-process assemblies and subassemblies as required.
- Direct and mentor inspectors and technicians within the Quality function.
- Maintain compliance with safety, operational, and regulatory standards for QMS, EMS, and OHSA.
- Conduct regular Safety Committee meetings to review QMS, EMS, and OHSA performance and ensure processes remain sustainable, suitable, and effective.
- Assess opportunities for improvement and necessary changes to management systems.
- Provide CoCs, RoHS, REACH, TSCA, and Conflict Minerals compliance documentation upon request.
Benefits
- Competitive benefit package
- Paid Time Off
- 10 company-paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous 401(k) employer contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
