Quality Assurance Manager

There’s a Place for You at Viking Electric.

A career at Viking Electric is more than a job. You’re investing in a brighter, more sustainable future together and joining a team that makes a real difference for our customers. Viking Electric https://www.vikingelectric.com/about offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate throughout the Midwest and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe. Being “Powered by Difference” means we respect and value diverse perspectives. At Viking Electric, we offer a supportive culture and great benefits, and as part of the larger Sonepar group, we can offer exciting opportunities to grow your career.

Quality Assurance Manager

Location: Any Viking Electric Geography

Job type: Full time

Schedule: Standard Daytime hours, Monday-Friday (in-office)

 

Salary: $73,000 - $105,000

*Compensation for this position includes annual salary, 15% short-term incentive bonus, and full benefits package offerings. The exact amount of base salary may vary based on experience and skills brought to the role as well as the geographic location of the role.

 

What You’ll Do

Optimize the customer experience across all touchpoints through the understanding of customer needs, identifying failures, and working with cross-functional teams to create a positive and consistent experience. 

Help to build a business culture of continuous organizational improvement through systems and education that ensure associates know and execute their functional duties.

You will…

• Analyze customer service failures to determine resolution through individual training, companywide training, applying quality life cycle, and other quality strategies to eliminate potential failures.
• Drive operating consistency within the organization through the education of standard operating processes. Identify, develop, & coordinate programs and tools that ensure each associate is equipped to execute their function duties.
• Oversee and enhance customer service incident reporting to monitor quality performance. Use trending and predictive data to proactively engage key resources to create and execute a quality strategy prior to customer experience deterioration.
• Be a resource to Viking Electric leadership fostering the elevation of managerial skills and abilities in the application of quality principles to their functional areas of business responsibility through exposure, providing education, and coaching quality concepts.
• Initiate and lead process improvement campaigns across the organization designed to improve profitability while maintaining or improving associate and customer experiences through consistent performance.

 

What You Bring

Requirements:

• 4-8 years of experience in quality assurance or management including leading quality initiatives.
• Management experience is preferred in addition to a strong business acumen in distribution supply chain processes.
• Must have a valid driver’s license
• Up to 50% travel expectation

 

 

 

What We Offer You

We offer great family-friendly benefits to full-time associates:

• Healthcare plans
• Dental & vision
• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement savings with company match
• Professional and personal development programs
• Tuition Reimbursement

• Opportunity to become a shareholder
• Employer-paid short- and long-term disability
• Employer-paid life insurance for spouse and dependents
• Robust wellness program
• Gym reimbursement