Quality Specialist

Responsibilities

• Monitor day to day production processes to ensure product quality compliance as measured by company, industry, and customer specifications.
• Supports and improve of control material Qualification process. Works in conjunction with other departments to develop, qualify, and transfer the Qualification process, as applicable.
• Ensures maintenance of QC equipment – qualification, calibration and maintenance.
• Lead and support formal quality initiatives including SPC and Six Sigma.
• Participate in investigations for failures during Quality control testing; perform troubleshooting, process development, and improvement activities.
• Analyzes complex information from a fact-based standpoint to develop a strategy/plan that is consistent with the evidence collected.
• Coached team/others on how to leverage individual differences and strengths in the team to optimize decision-making and develop solutions.
• Follow projects through from conception to completion, with a focus on meeting stated objectives. 
• Ensures a culture is in place that puts the safety and welfare of our employees ahead of all other goals. 
• Lead Operational Excellence using CI principles, tools, methods, and techniques, in direct support of achieving business goals, improved performance, and decreased cost. 
• Ensure that all work activities are performed in accordance with established safety and environmental standards. 
• Supervise production activities on the floor that will ensure best in class quality results for all our customers.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in operations, manufacturing, engineering, or business management. 
• 5+ Years of experience as Quality manager in the extrusion aluminum industry or equivalent.

Qualifications 

• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to both develop solutions and identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. 
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. 
• Teamwork – Job requires the ability to function as part of a small team, as well as the ability to work independently. 
• Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. 
• Strong financial literacy — Job requires the ability to drive P&L change in standard costing system through well thought out projects with appropriate ROI. 
• Disciplined Execution — Job requires holding the Operations team accountable through daily execution to the plan. When required, he/she will need to be able to dive into details to ensure operational success. 
• Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical. 
• Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations. 
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others. 
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. 
• Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. 
• Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. 
• Customer Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. 
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in manufacturing.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in lean process improvement.
• Computer Skills (knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). 

The annual base salary range for this position is $73,280 - $100,760. If you are hired, your annual base pay will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance o