Lead Quality Control Specialist

 As the Lead Quality Control Specialist, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that our products meet rigorous safety and reliability standards. You will be responsible for overseeing the quality control team, training employees, triaging tasks, and effectively communicating product standards and customer expectations. Your role will be essential in recommending process improvements and expediting resolutions to any quality concerns.    

Supervisory Responsibilities: Quality Inspectors

Essential Functions: 

• Lead, train and develop QC inspectors and oversee daily operations to meet production schedule.
• Manage QC department workflow in accordance with company prioritization system.
• Actively participate in root cause analysis or of internal and customer rejected assemblies. 
• Perform inspections: visual, dimensional, PT, and UT. 
• Responsible for inspections, first article, customer-required, as needed.
• Ensure completion of inspection documentation for fabricated components.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement activities, organizing and completing investigations, with departments      involved and drives resolution with quality issues.
• Conduct internal audits and audit training programs as required.
• Responsible for complying and enforcing the company’s Quality Management System
• Work cross functionally within the Quality Department, to prepare, maintain quality documentation, procedures, forms, and training as it relates to various regulatory and quality standards. 
• Responsible for Quality Inspection and regulatory documents such as inspection reports, calibration records, NCRs, MRBs, and Corrective / Preventative action (CAPAs in QMS software IMSXpress. 
• Work cross functionally with sales, engineering,and production departments to meet all QC standards for Alloy Engineering.
• Participate with QA in completing and maintaining KPIs such as Quality Goals, or company initiatives (itps’s, quality plan, and quality agreements).
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Competencies and Attributes Needed:

• Proven experience in Quality or Manufacturing settings with NDT disciplines (visual, dimensional, PT, UT preferred).
• Fabricated component experience preferred – welding code competency preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and decision making abilities.
• Results driven with a focus on continous improvement.

Physical Requirements:

• Sit, stand, climb stairs daily.
• Lift at least 50 pounds
• Standard shift is ten hours per day, with Steel-toe boots and safety glasses required.
• Periods of stress may occur.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Disability / Vets