Quality Manager
CurrentOversees quality department at the Bedford, PA manufacturing facility.Ensures total quality for this location. This includes: personnel (QEs and QTechs), internal and external QIs, QA/QC Process Implementation, SNCRs, DRs, PCIs, KQPs, Quality Violations, weekly and quarterly plant quality audits.Responsible for:-Product quality in-house and product shipped out.-Ensuring product is built to standards laid out by R&D and guides listed in Dozuki.-Instilling Quality-Minded / Quality-centric culture with an emphasis on continuous improvements and Kaizen-Investigating all internal and external QIs to ensure issues are resolved and improvements/countermeasures are implemented to avoid future issues.-Building and managing Quality team - which includes Quality Engineers (QEs) and Quality Technicians (QTechs).-Manage introduction of ECNs and PCIs to the product lines.-Enforcement of Quality standards and KQPs.-Verifying products are built to spec outlined by R&D department within Dozuki.-Routine quality audits, product review, and continuous improvement of processes and work instructions.-Managing quality training for new employees and re-training of existing employees.