Quality Assurance Manager - Aerospace

We specialize in manufacturing adhesive bonded fastening to bear on the technical challenges for the aerospace, marine, energy, and other industrial sectors.

The ideal candidate needs to have a solid Quality Assurance Leadership background within the Aerospace industry. Plans, coordinates, and directs quality assurance program designed to ensure quality production of products consistent with established standards such as AS9100 / ISO 9001/ ISO1400.

Plans, coordinates, and directs quality assurance program designed to ensure quality production of products consistent with established standards such as AS9100 / ISO 9001/ ISO1400.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Formulates and maintains quality assurance objectives complementary to corporate policies and goals
• Interpret and convey quality assurance philosophy to key personnel in organization
• Performs quality engineering reviews of design and purchasing documentation for compliance with stated requirements, including review of vendor quality manuals and company quality records
• Applies statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate the current process and process changes
• In concert with management decides whether to accept a product or continue business with a vendor based on a review by quality assurance engineers
• Reviews all data obtained during all quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with company policies and procedures
• Develops and validates new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities
• Keeps management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and actions being taken to improve conditions
• Prepares and presents technical and program information to the management team
• Directs technical and administrative workers engaged in quality assurance activities including but not limited to
• Reviewing/approving PO’s for materials
• Receiving metal, reviewing certs, quality labels
• Reviewing/approving customer PO’s
• Programming tensile tester and software analysis
• Management review meeting package requirements
• Stamp agreement clarity
• Supplier audits
• Requisitions, Engineering change requests, NCR’s, CARS & Escapes management
• Product validations
• Safety meetings
• Contacts for equipment, calibrations, etc
• Internal audits
• Managers the QEMS documentation and release structure
• Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality assurance codes and standards
• Plays an active role with quality management teams within the organization. Leads and Administers Internal Quality Audits in compliance with AS9100 and ISO14001
• Designs and implements manufacturing and quality assurance training programs in order to further quality initiatives. Training projects will be delivered to both key manufacturing and quality personnel
• Investigates and implements corrections as required and replies to customer complaints regarding quality issues
• Report immediately all suspicious and hazardous conditions to a supervisor
• Assist in maintaining clean, orderly, and hazard-free work areas
• Able to work with minimal supervision, be a self-starter and be detail oriented
• Other duties as may be assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to write and read English

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from an accredited College or university
• Minimum ten years related experience and/or training in the same or related industry
• Minimum five years supervisory experience

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages subordinates
• Supervise multiple employees in the Quality Assurance Department
• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units
• Interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems