Location: Waterbury, CT
Pay Range: $71,000 - $85,000
Employment Type: Perm
Description:
Develops, applies, and maintains quality requirements and standards for development and manufacturing products.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
- Serves as a quality assurance resource for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement.
- Leads or facilitates root cause corrective action activities.
- Maintains a working knowledge of the AS9100, ISO 9000 and ISO14001 requirements.
- Supports concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality assurance and the customer.
- Designs and implements methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
- Promotes and executes quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans, documents, and reports.
- Assists in process certification and product qualification.
- Develops, executes, and analyzes quality reporting measures.
- Reports to management on quality issues, trends, and scrap.
- Interfaces with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality assurance and assures that effective corrective action is implemented.
- May compile, write and deliver training material on quality standards and activities.
- Reviews customer’s purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensures that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
- Coordinate the processing of returned product from customers.
- Respond to customer complaints and coordinate corrective action activity.
- Develop visual standards.
- Release quality alerts and raise awareness of quality issues for all parties.
- Work with engineering on the disposition and follow through for non-conformances.
- Participate in FMEA and other risk assessments and mitigation activities.
- Assists in the development of quality policies, procedures, inspection methods and testing methods.
- Reviews suppliers purchase orders and establishes supplier quality requirements.
- Participates in internal and supports external quality audits.
- Understand and observe all safety guidelines and assure quality and safety by complying with all appropriate policies and procedures.
- Assist in maintaining clean, orderly, and hazard-free work areas.
- Able to work with minimal supervision, be a self-starter and be detail oriented.
- Other duties as assigned.