MPI Calera - Quality Manager

Company Description

McWane Inc. has a newly created division, McWane Plant and Industrial (MPI). This new division, based in Birmingham, AL, combines all Plant and Industrial Products in a single customer‑focused package. We offer comprehensive solutions through an experienced team of professionals specifically focused on these two special markets. Our Mission is to be the Plant and Industrial supplier who is "easiest to do business with".

We will make it easier to engineer, specify, and order components for plants, provide greater support for smoother delivery, cost‑effective installation, and start‑up, and build strong relationships with design engineers, contractors, plant operations teams and project owners to assure we are their first‑choice supplier for both new construction and future upgrades.

Quality Manager

Calera, AL

Senior Quality Manager

This position requires you to have high energy, be a multitasker, prioritize and manage, have excellent attention to detail, and have outstanding organizational skills. It also requires familiarity with blueprint reading, machine fabrication, and cast parts. Experience with NDT methods would be advantageous. Experience as a machinist would be very valuable.

• Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.
• Member of the manufacturing plant leadership team and owner of the product quality management program. Develop positive relationships with other leaders and team members in the plant and throughout the MPI organization to further advance our quality programs.
• Producing quality plans and maps to ensure all parts are manufactured and inspected per specific product specifications.
• Detailed measuring of fabrications, castings, and machined parts using high‑precision measurement devices, such as calipers, micrometers, height gages, etc.
• Generate completed reports for every job going through the plant.
• Proactively promote the McWane Way Principles.
• Coordinate outside UT, X‑ray inspections.
• Keep all measuring equipment current with calibrations.
• Run all internal, external & customer witness testing inspections per customer specification and industry standards.
• Immediately elevate product or process quality issues so they can be dealt with in a timely manner.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory and industry requirements.
• Responsible for quality and document management systems as they relate to the manufacturing plant details and data.
• Duties and responsibilities may change at the discretion of leadership.

• Standing, walking, stooping, balancing, kneeling, reaching, and sitting are some of the physical requirements.
• Must be able to meet and adhere to physical requirements as well as adhere to wearing the appropriate PPE (steel‑toed boots, safety glasses, hearing protection, and mask).
• Work will occur in heat, cold, noise, and vibration conditions.
• Must be able to work in dust and fumes.
• Extended hours may be required depending on customer and company demands.
• Ability to tolerate exposure to loud noises.
• Must have some knowledge of industrial tools, their uses, and maintenance.
• Ability to lift up to 70 lbs.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Minimum five (5) years of blueprint reading of fabrications, castings, and machined parts.
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience with various types of measuring equipment.
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience with visual inspection of parts.
• Attention to detail.
• Communication skills.
• Ability to be part of the team interacting with employees and customers.
• Occasional operation of forklift trucks, man lifts, overhead cranes, grinders, power and hand tools, painting equipment, and heavy lifting up to and in excess of 50 lbs.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.