Quality Manager

Quality Manager / Metallurgist

Position Overview

The Quality Manager / Metallurgist is responsible for leading and maintaining all manufacturing quality systems while overseeing the Quality Department, including Quality Engineers and Laboratory Technicians. This position ensures product quality, regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction while providing metallurgical expertise in heat treatment and phosphate coating processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive manufacturing quality systems and procedures.

• Lead and supervise the Quality Department, including Quality Engineers and Laboratory Technicians.

• Establish employee training programs and ensure compliance with quality standards and procedures.

• Analyze, control, and minimize manufacturing rejections, scrap, and quality-related costs.

• Manage customer complaints, corrective actions, and follow-up activities to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing and quality operations.

• Develop, analyze, and establish processing parameters for high-volume heat treatment and phosphate coating operations.

• Apply metallurgical principles involving deformation processes, thermodynamics, material kinetics, diffusion, and material selection.

• Oversee the processing and treatment of steel and aluminum bars, castings, and forgings.

• Serve as the primary plant representative during ISO, NADCAP, and IATF audits.

• Ensure compliance with applicable automotive quality standards and customer-specific requirements.

• Utilize statistical process control (SPC) and other quality tools to monitor and improve manufacturing performance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong understanding of automotive manufacturing quality systems, including ISO 9001, IATF 16949, CQI-9, CQI-12, and NADCAP.

• Ability to develop, implement, and manage comprehensive quality assurance systems.

• Extensive knowledge of heat treatment processes, metallurgical principles, and manufacturing quality control.

• Strong leadership and supervisory skills with the ability to develop and motivate a quality team.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, organizational, and technical writing skills.

• Ability to interact professionally and effectively with employees, customers, and auditors.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Familiarity with AS400 systems preferred.

• Strong mathematical and analytical abilities, including the application of engineering principles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Metallurgy, Materials Science, or a related engineering field.

• Minimum of five years of manufacturing experience or equivalent.

• Extensive knowledge of heat treatment principles, including time-temperature-transformation relationships.

• Working knowledge of various Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) steel grades and their heat treatment applications.

• Experience with hardness testing, microstructural analysis, and metallurgical laboratory practices.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing Statistical Process Control (SPC) and quality control methodologies.

Pay Details: $120,000.00 to $140,000.00 per year

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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