Develop and maintain an effective quality assurance system; work with company employees and managers to consistently conform to AS 9100 9002; and develop and maintain a system by which to prevent defects.

Evaluate customer requests to ensure the company's ability to produce the order to the desired quality level; Work with Purchasing to develop and maintain a qualified supply base; Develop and maintain a system by which to prevent defects; Perform contract review and develop quality contract planning on pending work orders to ensure the company's ability to produce product to the customer's requirement.

Responsible for gage acquisitions.

Must be able to work with all materials and inspection tools and equipment.

A Bachelor's degree in business or engineering is desired but not required. Experience as an inspector in a manufacturing environment is required, as is supervisory experience. A certificate in Quality Management is desirable. English is required.

Must possess good interpersonal; communication; critical thinking; organizational; statistical; and computer skills. Must be able to work with minimum supervision and be willing and able to be a team player.

• Ensure that the organization's quality assurance system is effective, efficient, and using the latest technology and processes;
• Work closely with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, marketing, employees and managers to prevent, report on, and resolve quality issues;
• Stay current with new technologies and philosophies;
• Recommend the selection and justification of new capital expenditures;
• Serve as the organization's representative in customer audits, as needed;
• Work with and train employees in processes to prevent defects;
• Manage any required corrective action;
• Continuously improve the quality management processes, AS9100 and QMS within the company;
• Manage the MRB process;
• Perform contract review and create inspection data for all levels of inspection during production;
• Purchase and maintain all inspection thread and pin gauges;
• Perform all final and support first article inspections (as required);
• Create rework/remake routers as determined by the MRB process, QMS-MR will provide back-up support;
• Assist as interface with registrar, as needed;
Evaluate, hire, train supervise and conduct performance evaluations of inspectors. Develop and implement training plans;
• Maintain quality records and provide management with information on quality issues and measures;
• Develop and maintain contacts with professionals in the field and with related professional organizations;
• Schedule and conduct atidits of potential supplier facilities to maintain an 'ipproved supplier base;
• Maintain the use of SPC within the plant;
• Serve on continuous improvement teams and as a Lead Auditor, both internally and externally;
• Manage calibration requirements;
• Work closely with customer; marketing; supplier and manufacturing to prevenUreport on and resolve quality related issues;
• Maintain the calibration system and register;
• Issue CAR and NR for all externallinternal rejections, to include the RMA;
• Request, track and record customer supplied gauges/gauge information;
• Report on quality performance of the OMS in Management Review meetings;
• Assist in the response of any customer's audits and/or survey requests;