Quality Engineering Manager

Igloo Products Corp is an iconic and fast-growing American brand known for exceptional and durable performance for everyday cooler needs. After more than 75 years of as the leader as a housewares brand, Igloo has pivoted to a high growth lifestyle brand for outside activities associated with fun, family and friends.

Founded in as a metalworking shop bringing fresh cold water to Texas workers in the field to inventing the Playmate to becoming America’s most recognizable brand of ice chests, the Igloo story spans more than 75 years of delivering coolness to the world. Today, Igloo has 90% + brand awareness and is #1 in market share in the US, is a pioneer in sustainability for our category with the launch of biodegradable coolers and coolers made with from post-consumer recycled resin and other sustainable materials and has a growing DTC business allowing us to build direct relationships with our consumers.

In 2021, Igloo was acquired by Dometic Brands and now there is the opportunity to Globally grow both brands together.

We are on a journey of continuous growth – now looking for our next star – a passionate
Quality Engineering Manager.

This role will be involved in developing and applying quality engineering principles and methods to ensure product requirements are properly defined, verified, and validated throughout the NPD process from start to finish. The role is to ensure quality is built into the NPD process and PPAP is mapped and executed to the stage gate model. The manager also plays a key role in providing quality strategic planning/execution, development of quality frameworks, global quality alignment, and daily manufacturing support.

The individual will be assigned to specific NPD projects as well as managing the quality engineering department.

Essential

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead quality engineering to develop and control qualification and development activities as it relates to new products, new processes, and process changes throughout the NPD process.
• Work with the new product development team to ensure that new product introductions are launched flawlessly to quality/compliance/product safety requirements, industry standards, and customer quality needs.
• Responsible for conducting and documenting PPAP for the new product development going through the Dometic Product Develop/Improvement Process.
• Create strategies for quality resource planning of design transfers and process transfers from NPD to production.
• Define and lead Quality initiatives to support design for manufacturing within the NPD framework.
• Define and lead product and project risk management efforts from a product quality perspective and recommend improvements to design for manufacturing
• Define a framework for Product Safety and ensure Product Safety is built into design throughout the NPD process.

• Develops and maintains integrity of QMS.
• Develop quality strategies and quality frameworks for New Product Development, Project Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Product Quality Improvement, and Product Safety.
• Drive continuous product improvement through the use of quality systems to identify quality improvement needs and work with managers to drive execution of key quality improvements.
• Lead projects for Quality alignment amongst plant quality, segment quality, and group quality.
• Manage, motivate, and train quality staff.

• Provide Manufacturing Quality Support 24/7.
• Responsible for ensuring the development and execution of quality plans.
• Identifies needs for go and no-go gauges, Poka-Yoke, critical to quality characteristics alongside other quality tools. Supervises auditors and technicians to ensure these quality tools are properly used and strictly followed.
• Identify top-quality issues and develop a quality cadence to review and address the issues cross-functionally through corrective and preventive actions.
• Investigate and determine root causes and implement corrective actions through RCCA for major quality excursions and other major manufacturing issues. Ensure issues are properly communicated and escalated as needed.

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