Quality Manager in Fort Worth, Texas at Co-Operative Industries Defense LLC

The Quality Manager is responsible for managing and controlling all aspects of the AS9100 quality management system. This includes leading a quality first mindset within the plant, supervising the hourly inspectors and representing the company in customer-facing roles.

Essential Job Functions:

The Quality Manager is responsible for the following:

• Ensuring compliance with all aspects of the quality management system and the AS9100 standard.
• Maintaining the document control process. Be able to explain business process compliance to all stakeholders in the quality system.
• Leading the preparation of management reviews, Material Review Boards, supplier quality reviews and corrective action reviews.
• Establishing the internal audit schedule, as well as coordinating third party audits with the AS9100 registrar, customers, and any other third-party agencies.
• Championing the root cause and correction action process…. focusing on systemic corrective actions. Strong data analysis skills are required.
• Driving continuous improvement activities to both enhance the quality system and support product throughput and efficiency goals.
• Ensuring timely resolution of supplier failure, corrective actions and preventative actions.
• Performing these common managerial duties: managing work schedules within the quality department. Lead and train the quality management team and perform employee performance reviews.
• Maintain PMA status to current working revisions. Maintain accredited certification, schedule and coordinate all source inspection functions.

• Must be able to understand, comply, and improve established company policies and procedures. These policies and procedures must be flowed to all stakeholders in the quality process.
• Coordinate and manage specific projects as they relate to quality functions.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.
• Requires strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to interface with all departments.
• Must be organized and able to read and understand engineering drawings, parts lists, electrical schematics, etc.
• Ability to write working procedures, processes, and work instructions.
• General knowledge of and experience with Military Specifications
• Advanced knowledge of ISO 9001 and AS9100 requirements
• General knowledge of FAA Regulations and Inspection Requirements
• Ability to coordinate source inspection requirements with various customers.
• Knowledge of Government Source Inspection Requirements
• MS Office tools

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of AS9100 QMS leadership experience…or
• AA degree plus 7 years of AS9100 QMS leadership experience…. or
• 10 years of AS9100 QMS leadership experience (non-degree’ d experience may be considered)
• ASQ certifications a plus