Quality Engineering Manager - Goleta, CA
Roth Staffing Companies

Quality Engineering Manager Needed in Goleta, CA (In-Person)

Industry: (Technology Manufacturing)

Pay: $92k - $95k (Flexible with higher experience)

SUMMARY

The Quality Engineering Manager is responsible for the Company's Quality Management System, incoming material, in-process and outgoing product quality inspection, inspection equipment and gages, as well as customer quality communication for our US products. This individual leads the inspection team and interfaces with other production and engineering groups utilizing strong communication skills, solid quality engineering fundamentals and a proactive and innovative approach to help us improve our systems, win new business, and execute well during production.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Other duties may be assigned.

Maintains and updates the Quality Management System to ISO 9001 standards and new customer requirements. Leads the Inspection and Quality Technician team. Develop capable inspection procedures for new products. Coordinates the activities of visual, dimensional, mechanical and test inspections relating to source, first article, receiving, in-process, final and test operations using company or customer supplied specifications, drawings, equipment and/or procedures. The position is a key part of a close working Quality group that supports the operations of the company, including Production and Product Engineering. The general responsibilities of the position include:

• Write all in-process and final inspection procedures.

• Responsible for selection of gauging used and the programming of Nikon CMM vision, contact gage and other systems to verify the quality of stamped components.

• Oversee the inspection activities and seek out improvements to methods and systems to improve product quality or productivity.

• Interact directly with external customers to address all aspects of IPT quality. Set quality goals for specific products or customers and perform actions to meet those goals.

• Responsible for data package output, as required, to customer shipments.

• Respond to customer inquiries and complaints. Use and maintain SCAR and NCMR systems.

• Manage calibration of all metrology equipment.

• Perform and coordinate metrology correlations and improvement activities both internally and with customers.

• Travel when required to support external customer and/or vendor issues. (i.e. correlation exercises).

• Develop and maintain an incoming material inspection system. Provide detailed documentation for the system, training of inspector(s) and reporting of incoming inspection system data.

• Manage Discrepant Material (DMR) and Vendor Corrective Action (VCAR) system. Work directly with supplier and manufacturing to assure optimum material quality is supplied to manufacturing.

• Develop suppliers' capabilities and new suppliers as needed to support production requirements.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervision of inspection team and Quality Assurance Technician.

CAPABILITIES

• Strong verbal and written communication.

• Windows-based PC applications (MS Office), Excel VBA programming, etc.

• SPC methods and data analyses using Excel or software such as MiniTab. DOE and Six Sigma experience preferred.

• SPC data management systems and programming, Infinity QS preferred.

• Vision-based and contact CMM programming, Nikon preferred.

• GD&T and ANSIY14.5 drawing interpretation.

• Precision contact measurement tool specification, selection and use.

• Gage capability analyses.

• Visual inspection methods and standards.
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