- Field
- Quality engineering and management
- Location
- Dubuque, IA
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Level
- Manager
- Pay
- On request, ask us
About the role
The primary focus of this role is ownership of the QMS, proactive quality leadership and ensuring quality standards are effectively executed in both production and administrative processes.
What you would own
- Own and maintain the AS9100 Quality Management System, ensuring compliance and effectiveness.
- Lead internal audits and coordinate external audits, including customer and registrar audits.
- Monitor quality performance and address issues impacting product quality in real time.
- Communicate quality performance, risks and significant issues to leadership in a timely manner.
- Perform hands-on inspection of parts as needed to verify quality standards and reinforce expectations.
- Engage with production employees through brief training and coaching conversations to improve quality awareness and execution.
- Lead and drive corrective actions (8D, CARs, SCARs) across departments, ensuring timely completion and effectiveness.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customer quality issues and responses.
- Oversee supplier performance, including quality, corrective actions and on-time delivery.
- Own, monitor and drive improvement of key quality performance metrics including customer returns, internal scrap and supplier performance.
- Support or perform technical validation activities such as dimensional inspection and laser scanning as required.
- Ensure inspection processes (incoming, in-process, final) are effective and consistently executed.
- Ensure quality processes and standards are consistently followed and sustained across all departments.
- Monitor effectiveness of corrective actions and escalate when issues are not resolved.
- Verify that process changes, corrective actions and improvements are properly implemented and maintained.
- Ensure documentation and records within the QMS remain current, accurate and controlled.
- Quality System & Process Execution Focus.
- Oversee adherence to quality standards across all manufacturing processes.
- Monitor process compliance and identify deviations from established quality requirements.
- Ensure nonconforming material is clearly identified, segregated and controlled.
- Prevent shipment of nonconforming product through effective inspection and process controls.
- Training & Cross-Functional Collaboration.
- Provide training, coaching and guidance to employees regarding quality standards and expectations.
- Conduct brief, on-the-floor interactions to reinforce quality awareness and correct behaviors.
What they are looking for
- Bachelors in related field, i.e., engineering, quality, management.
- Three years or more of quality checks of parts and participated in AS9100 Audits.
- A real plus is hands-on inspection of parts produced during manufacturing.
Everything above is the hiring company’s own words, with the company name taken out. The name, the team, and the interview steps come with the first conversation.