The role involves reviewing specifications for products or processes, managing the monitoring, measurement, and review of internal processes that affect the quality of the organization's products, handling and resolving product and service quality issues with customers and suppliers, managing process and product audits, testing, and inspections to lead the team in continuous improvement initiatives and processes, overseeing inspection of incoming materials, ensuring that they meet requirements, keeping accurate documentation and performing statistical analysis, looking for opportunities to develop new or improve existing procedures and processes, supervising QC department staff and providing guidance and feedback, supervising inspections, reports, and the documents issued by inspectors, and collecting and filing the required quality records. Proven ability to lead a QC staff, proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word; project management experience is a plus, excellent communication and listening skills, with the ability to work effectively with people at all levels, excellent math skills and working knowledge of data analysis and statistical methods, strong attention to detail, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and supervisory skills, and experience with Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing preferred.