Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day product quality activities across incoming, in-process, final inspection, and repair/rework operations.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Quality team, including In-Process QC Technicians and Quality Repair Technicians.
• Establish, maintain, and communicate quality standards, inspection criteria, checkpoints, and quality work instructions for manufacturing operations.
• Ensure nonconforming material and product are properly identified, documented, quarantined, and dispositioned according to established procedures.
• Monitor defect data, inspection results, repair trends, and recurring failure patterns to identify quality risks and improvement opportunities.
• Lead or coordinate root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action activities for recurring defects and nonconformances.
• Manage the repair and rework process to ensure failed units are diagnosed, repaired, documented, retested, and returned to production only when quality requirements are met.
• Partner with the Production Lead to address floor-level quality concerns, contain defects, and prevent nonconforming product from advancing through production.
• Partner with the Manufacturing Process Engineer on process-related quality issues, work instructions, testing requirements, engineering changes, and corrective actions.
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions through follow-up inspection, monitoring, and defect trend review.
• Maintain accurate quality records and provide visibility into key quality issues, trends, risks, and corrective actions.
• Promote a culture of quality ownership, disciplined problem-solving, ESD compliance, and continuous improvement across manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Progressive experience in manufacturing quality, inspection, repair, testing, or quality leadership.
• Experience leading or coordinating quality personnel and floor-level quality activities.
• Strong understanding of inspection methods, nonconformance control, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and manufacturing quality processes.
• Ability to analyze defect and quality data, identify recurring patterns, and drive effective corrective action.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to maintain high quality standards while supporting practical and timely production execution.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in electronics, automotive-related, or other quality-controlled manufacturing environments.
• Experience with electronic assembly, soldering, testing, calibration, repair, or rework processes.
• Experience with CAPA, defect trending, root cause tools, and continuous improvement methods.
• Knowledge of electronics workmanship standards such as IPC-A-610 and ESD control requirements.
• Experience with ERP, quality tracking, or manufacturing systems, including SAP.

Key Competencies