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Summary:

Our award-winning client is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Manager to join their team. The ideal candidate will lead and strengthen quality operations in a high-volume, 24/7 manufacturing environment. This role provides hands-on leadership to Quality Engineers and Technicians, ensures compliance with IATF standards, and drives continuous improvement initiatives across the plant. The ideal candidate is an experienced Quality Manager or a Senior Quality Engineer ready to step into a leadership role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and provide daily guidance to Quality Engineers and Quality Technicians in a high-volume manufacturing operation.

• Support and actively participate in IATF 16949 audits, customer audits, and internal quality reviews.

• Serve as a key member of the plant's continuous improvement and quality improvement teams.

• Ensure all plant employees are trained and compliant with quality requirements, procedures, and the quality plan.

• Oversee training, development, and performance growth of Quality Technicians.

• Drive quality initiatives that reduce COPQ and improve process capability and product performance.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience as a Manufacturing Quality Manager or Senior Quality Engineer, ready to advance into a management role.

• Strong working knowledge of some or all of the following:

• Product Launch processes.

• IATF 16949.

• PPAP / APQP.

• Extrusion manufacturing processes.

• Metrology and measurement systems.

• Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement.

• Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma (L6S certification preferred).

• Kepner-Tregoe problem-solving methodology.

• Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).