Quality - Safety Manager

Quality - Safety Manager

Metals USA is seeking a Quality -- Safety Manager in Ambridge, PA. Metals USA is a solid, growth oriented, carbon steel (plate, beam and tube) distribution center servicing the defense, commercial, construction, aerospace and fabrication industries.

The Location Quality & Safety Manager is responsible for developing and implementing quality assurance policies and systems, monitoring quality assurance processes. The Quality & Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring that quality standards are met. The Quality & Safety Manager is responsible for monitoring the working conditions of the entire facility to ensure that all activity is compliant with local, states and federal safety regulations. The Location Quality & Safety Manager enforces company health and safety guidelines, inspects workspaces and products to ensure compliance with safety standards and provides workplace safety training.

Responsibilities:

• Executes and implements the administration of the facility's quality assurance/controls policies and practices in accordance with stated company objectives and American Society and Testing Materials (ASTM), American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards.
• Implements the internal quality program and interfaces with vendors, suppliers and customers on quality issues.
• Assesses the quality of material delivered by vendors.
• Manages corrective action program, performs corrective actions for quality related problems internally and for external customers.
• Serves as management's representative for quality and environmental reporting purposes.
• Serves as management's representative for government contractors and sub-contractors' audits, and prepares and submits corrective action reports to resolve defective audit findings.
• Maintains a high level of interaction with Operations, Purchasing and Sales to ensure that quality standards are properly executed.
• Achieves quality assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; prepares and completes action plans; implements production, productivity and quality standards; identifies and resolves problems; completes audits, determines system improvements and implements change.
• Executes and maintains a strong quality assurance culture. Collaborates with managers to identify quality concerns.
• Meets or exceeds quality assurance financial objectives by estimating requirements, analyzing variances and initiating corrective actions.
• Develops quality assurance plans by conducting hazard analysis, identifying critical control points and preventive measure, establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions and verification procedures and monitoring inventory levels.
• Validates quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes, measures production, documents evidence and determines operational and performance qualification, writes and revises quality procedures as required.
• Establishes and maintains department records and reports. Participates in administrative meetings as required.
• Maintains and improves product quality by completing product, company, system, compliance and surveillance audits; investigates customer complaints; collaborates with other departments (production, sales and purchasing) as needed.
• Prepares quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, corrective actions and re-validations.
• Establishes programs to educate, train and update personnel on quality control procedures; develops and maintains a quality control manual.
• Facilitates compliance with Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) guidelines. Implements OSH policies and develops program to ensure enforcement of ISH policies.
• Trains employees in all safety procedures and ensures daily adherence of procedures. Leads and manages the required daily, weekly and monthly trainings.
• Designs methods for appraising safety conditions in the warehouse and office.
• Inspects working conditions and equipment to ensure all products and activities are compliant with safety guidelines as required by OSH and RSAC.
• Directs accident investigation procedures, investigates safety violations, determines root causes, maintains records of safety-related incidents and proposes corrective action