Quality Manager

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, document, implement, and manage the Quality Management System (QMS) for the sub-business unit.
• Foster a Zero Defect Culture and deploy continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational performance.
• Utilize structured problem-solving techniques to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Serve as a Our client Operating Advantage Champion, driving quality improvement initiatives.
• Implement and refine 1ADM/1CP Quality initiatives, ensuring consistency and efficiency across enterprise-wide procedures.
• Interface with key customers to address concerns related to product and process quality.
• Arrange for QC inspections of incoming and outgoing products and establish AQL procedures through DQIP plans and audits.
• Manage customer complaints (RMAs), ensuring timely investigations, root cause analysis, and resolution.
• Engage in ADM QPL Committee to uphold compliance with military specifications (Mil-Spec) for government agencies such as DLA and Nav-Air.
• Build team capabilities by developing robust succession plans and talent pipelines.
• Report directly to the our client Hauppauge Plant Manager with a dotted-line report to the Regional Senior Quality Manager.

Requirements:

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical/quality discipline.
• A graduate degree is a plus.
• Experience:
• Minimum 8 years of quality management experience in a discrete manufacturing environment.
• Experience in Aerospace products markets is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of global leadership experience is preferred.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong understanding of our client ADM business unit and Relay & Contactors Plant Groups.
• Ability to operationalize strategies for the Global Quality organization.
• Strong leadership abilities in building effective teams and aligning them with company mission and standards.
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and technical writing skills.
• Excellent communication, planning, and time management skills.
• Ability to work at all levels of the organization with influence and strategic insight