Quality Assurance Manager

**Quality Assurance Manager

**White Plains, NY Area

**Summary

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Are you a hands-on quality leader with experience in a job shop manufacturing environment? We are seeking a Quality Manager to oversee daily quality operations, lead inspection activities, and maintain ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 compliance. This full-time, on-site opportunity involves partnering with production, engineering, and customers to resolve quality concerns, improve processes, and ensure products meet customer specifications.

**Responsibilities

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• Manage daily Quality Department activities, including inspection priorities, employee guidance, and follow-up on quality issues.

• Serve as the Quality Management System representative, maintaining compliance with ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 requirements.

• Plan and oversee internal quality audits.

• Work directly with inspectors and production employees to evaluate incoming materials, in-process work, and finished products before shipment.

• Review customer blueprints, specifications, and quality requirements to develop product control plans and inspection methods.

• Serve as a primary customer contact for quality questions, complaints, corrective action requests, and audit findings.

• Investigate nonconforming products and customer returns, identify root causes, and implement and verify corrective and preventive actions.

• Prepare and maintain quality manuals, procedures, work instructions, inspection records, and customer-required submissions.

• Apply FMEA, PPAP, statistical techniques, and continuous improvement methods to reduce defects and improve process performance.

• Prepare quality metrics, audit results, and quality discrepancy information for quarterly management reviews.

• Collaborate with production, engineering, and other departments to improve products and processes.

• Train and coach employees on quality requirements, inspection practices, and procedures.

**Qualifications

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• Five to seven years of quality assurance experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience in a job shop manufacturing environment required.

• Experience managing a Quality Department in an ISO 9001 and AS9100 environment.

• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015, AS9100, PPAP, FMEA, root cause analysis, corrective action, and process improvement.

• Proficiency reading and interpreting customer blueprints and specifications.

• Hands-on experience using calipers, micrometers, optical comparators, Sunnen gauges, and CMM equipment.

• Ability to develop product control plans and inspection methods and apply statistical techniques to evaluate processes.

• Experience communicating directly with customers and managing quality concerns through resolution.

• Strong leadership, mathematics, computer, recordkeeping, and communication skills.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and willingness to work extensively on the production floor.

• Must meet the position’s ITAR “U.S. Person” requirement and provide supporting documentation upon hire.

**Education

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• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Quality certification is a plus.

• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt training or certification preferred.

**Benefits

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• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• 401(k) matching

• Paid time off

**Salary Range

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**$80,000 - $120,000 per year

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**Ask for: Hersha Dwyer

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