Quality Manager

The Evans Capitator Company is hiring! Evans currently has an opening for an on‑site Quality Manager at its flagship facility located in East Providence, Rhode Island. Be part of the innovative teams supporting mission‑critical applications in the aerospace and defense, telecommunications and energy industries. Evans manufactures high‑energy density capacitors for demanding mission‑critical applications with two manufacturing facilities in East Providence, RI and Sanford, ME.

We have the most power dense capacitor technology in the industry and are routinely specified for defense, aerospace, and energy exploration applications where high reliability and SWaP (space, weight, and power) savings are critical design considerations.

The Quality Manager is responsible for leading, governing, and continuously improving the Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure products meet or exceed AS9100D, customer, regulatory, and internal requirements. This is a hands‑on leadership role with full accountability for quality performance within a manufacturing environment. The role requires a proven quality leader with experience driving AS9100D‑compliant systems, leading quality teams, and partnering cross‑functionally to embed quality discipline, risk‑based thinking, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

The Quality Manager serves as the appointed Management Representative, with organizational freedom and unrestricted access to top management to ensure QMS conformity, effectiveness, performance reporting, promotion of customer focus, and integrity during changes.

• Actively govern the QMS with retained authority over core policies, procedures, metrics, and controls; facilitate cross‑functional teams to drive timely review, revision, approval, and release of all QMS documentation and processes—ensuring ongoing currency and full AS9100D compliance.
• Ensure management reviews are planned, conducted, documented in accordance with AS9100D requirements, focusing on QMS performance effectiveness, risks, opportunities, audit results, customer feedback, and continuous improvement actions, and ensure resulting actions are assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Embed and fully integrate quality planning, control, and verification activities into manufacturing and operational processes as essential components of the QMS, supporting effective operational planning and control in accordance with AS9100D requirements.
• Govern and oversee control of nonconforming outputs (including the MRB process), ensuring identification, segregation, timely evaluation, disposition, documentation, and linkage to systemic corrective actions to prevent recurrence—compliant with AS9100D.
• Lead and be accountable for the supplier corrective action process, including issuance of requests, verification and validation of supplier‑submitted root cause analyses, corrective actions, and effectiveness evidence; track, approve, and close to prevent recurrence; support Purchasing in supplier evaluations, performance monitoring, and flow‑down of quality requirements—compliant with AS9100D Clause 8.4.
• Serve as the primary quality interface for quality inquiries, corrective action responses, and support to the Customer Quality Manager on returned nonconforming product, ensuring timely, thorough, and effective resolution.
• Apply root cause analysis, CAPA methodologies, and continuous improvement tools (Lean, Six Sigma) to address systemic quality issues and reduce risk.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain and Customer Quality to resolve quality issues, ensure process capability and verify equipment.
• Ensure facility compliance with AS9100D, FAR, customer‑specific, and applicable regulatory requirements, maintaining audit‑ready documentation and objective evidence at all times.
• Identify quality and operational risks using risk‑based thinking, implementing mitigation strategies across processes, suppliers, and information systems, including cybersecurity considerations related to CMMC.

• Plan, lead, execute, and report internal audits to verify QMS conformance and effectiveness across all applicable…