Quality Assurance Manager

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Salary: $Excellent

Job Type: Direct Hire

Location:

Allentown NJ

Shift Pattern: 1st Shift – 7:30am to 4pm

We’re supporting our client, a leading instruments manufacturer based in Allentown, New Jersey who are looking for a Quality Assurance Manager to join their growing team. The successful Quality Assurance Manager will have experience establishing inspection priorities for products to ensure efficient operations and delegating tasks and assignments.

• Walks manufacturing floors and inspects parts in process.
• Measure physical parts against drawings to ensure accurate specifications.
• Performs visual quality audits.
• Inspects inbound electrical and mechanical material, in-process assemblies, and final product.
• Accepts/rejects finished products and discusses inspection results with the Production teams.
• Oversight and management of all reported customer concerns related to sales and shipments.
• Conducts root cause and corrective action investigations.
• Attends bi-monthly In-house Rejections meetings.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies the supervisor.
• Use of conventional and precision measuring instruments (calipers/measuring tape).
• Evaluate and recommend new vendors.
• Oversight and management of MRR, IPR, and CAR processes.
• Development and administration of KPI’s and metrics related to quality company wide.
• Organize and present Quality Defect Analysis to Company Officers during monthly meetings.
• Works with outside entities and human resources to source and interview candidates for hire.
• Trains new employees on departmental workflows and procedures.
• Creates and updates all JHA’s and SOPs for the department.
• Keeps all records current pertaining to the Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) Program.
• Oversees and manages daily operations of the department; establishing inspection priorities for products to ensure efficient operations and delegating tasks and assignments.
• Reviews daily production logs to ensure proper documenting of labor.
• Maintains employees’ work schedules and approves time off requests while ensuring proper staffing levels.
• Reviews and approves employee’s timecards for payroll processing.
• Trains, monitors and continuously coach performance of staff including counseling when needed.
• Effectively communicates policies, expectations, and workloads of the department to create a successful team.
• Provides oversight and direction for the staff.
• Resolves manufacturing difficulties that may arise during construction of products.
• Provides flexibility and sets an example to staff by continually exemplifying punctuality, flexibility, and readiness to assist the team.
• Conducts ninety (90) day and annual employee performance reviews.
• Recommends qualified employees as they progress throughout the company.
• Enforces safety rules and guidelines and quality standards including all company policies and procedures.
• Ensures job assignments are completed in a safe and productive manner while maintaining high quality levels.
• Confers with management to establish production and quality control standards.
• Adheres to standardized work practices in a continuous improvement environment.
• Keeps work areas clean and organized while taking care of all equipment and facilities.

Not Applicable

Full-time

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