JOB SUMMARY:
Develops, manages, implements, monitors and maintains the company's system of quality in accordance with governing quality standards and customer quality system requirements. Identifies short and long term departmental goals and strategies in support of the company's objectives.  Provides technical support to manufacturing regarding quality issues.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Competencies:

Assists with development, maintenance and implementation of internal quality assurance policies and procedures in accordance with ISO9000/AS9100 and other requirements imposed by the customers and governmental agencies.

Assists with establishment and maintenance of the company wide Quality System Program. 

Assist with the development of quality assurance plans by conducting various types of analysis; identifying critical control points and prevention measures; establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions and verification of procedures; monitoring inventories.

Assists with identifying the monthly, quarterly and yearly goals and formulates plan and strategies to achieve the goals and objectives.

Assists with customer quality representatives in performing quality audits to maintain their approval.

Establishes the internal and vendor audits to assure adherence to the committed quality policies and procedures.

Schedules and conducts required quality management meeting to review the quality system to determine adherence and adequacy.

Establishes performance of inspection and testing of products to assure adherence to customer and industry standard specifications.

Monitors rejections and prepares reports for management review and action.

Participates in the Material Review Board's investigation and decision of non-conforming products.

Review and approves corrective and preventative action responses submitted. 

Establishes in-house training of all activities related to quality.
Establishes and maintains a company-wide calibration system program.
Maintains record keeping of quality inspection/test reports and manufacturing activities related to quality.

Develops self and employees by attending seminars, professional organizational meetings, or conferences.

Travels to customer and/or vendor sites to assess or audit processes.

COMPETENCIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Language Skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers.

Mathematical Skills:
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.  Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Abilities:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.