Quality Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:   This position fills the role of quality expert and is responsible for designing, managing, maintaining, and continuously improving the company's quality systems to ensure that the business processes and products satisfy customer requirements and quality standards.  This is a hands-on environment and the Quality Manager will oversee the quality assurance at two fabrication facilities and field construction activities at customer sites.  The position requires extensive knowledge in heavy industrial fabrication and construction with expertise in welding methods, weld inspections, and non-destructive examination (NDE).

RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPECTATIONS:



* Manage the Quality Management System and recommend and implement enhancements to the system that result in improved quality performance, increased customer satisfaction, and/or simplification of processes to reduce costs.


* Understand, interpret, and verify compliance with AWS codes, specifications, customer requirements, and material marking requirements.


* Will have responsibility to manage welding procedure specification (WPS) and procedure qualification records (PQR) including development of procedures.


* Inspection of welding and metal fabricated components.


* Schedule CWIs, and manage subcontractors, to support quality inspections for field construction services.


* Development of customer specific inspection test plans and provide support for customers on quality systems-related issues.


* Responsible for assembling and maintaining all job data books, code forms, inspection documents, weld travelers, and material certifications.


* Schedule and perform audit activities, to include pre-audit planning, audit execution and evaluation and post-audit follow-up and recommendations.


* Assist departments with development and implementation of corrective and preventive action plans to improve overall Quality System compliance.


* Develop and review various quality reports, conduct various quality meetings, perform daily audits to ensure operation is running within defined operation/quality parameters and procedures.


* Development and oversight of a controlled document system, to include a final review of all changes to procedures, work instructions, forms, master lists and other associated documents to ensure quality certification requirements are met. 


* Provide technical expertise in product development projects, design reviews, verification, validation and manufacturability involving R&D, Product Group, Procurement, Manufacturing and other departments.


* Establish/maintain key performance indicators and systems for tracking, reporting and improving performance.


* Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action.


* Skills in developing collaborative relationships to achieve results, analysis, continuous improvement a...