Check-Mate Manufacturing LLC located in Thomasville, GA is a subsidiary of Check-Mate Industries based in West Babylon, New York. Over the past 40 years, Check-Mate has proven to be the winning move for hundreds of customers in a diverse range of industries. The company has been recognized as an innovator and leader in tool & die, stampings and assemblies. Whether producing high-precision tools and progressive dies, stamping, or assemblies for everything from healthcare to personal security products, Check-Mate out-thinks, out-maneuvers, and out-performs its competition.

QUALITY MANAGER

Check-Mate Industries has an immediate opening for a Quality Manager at its Thomasville, GA facility.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring manufactured products at Check-Mate Industries meet set standards of quality, reliability and performance. Sets and implements both internal and external quality requirements to ensure that company products and services meet customer expectations. Develops quality management system for Check-Mate Industries utilizing ISO/TS 16949 standards. Manages quality engineers and quality inspectors.

Quality Management System (QMS)

• Quality Manager maintains the Quality Management System to ensure compliance to QMS Standards.
• Quality Manager supports External QMS audits.

Process Planning

• Quality Manager conducts assessments of company production processes to develop in-house quality policies, procedures and specifications.
• Quality Manager collaborates with an organization’s purchasing, materials, warehouse and production departments to ensure raw materials from external suppliers meet quality requirements.
• Quality Manager evaluates customer requirements to ensure their needs are met by set customer service standards.
• Quality Manager specifies quality requirements for raw materials obtained from vendors and suppliers.
• Quality Manager implements and monitors quality assurance standards to ensure consistent product quality.
• Quality Manager establishes procedures and processes for sampling, recording and reporting of quality data.
• Quality Manager conducts and monitors the analysis/inspection of raw materials and final products to ensure compliance with set specifications.
• Quality Manager conducts tests to verify the quality of raw materials and finished products.

Material Review Board

• Quality Manager carries out research to identify ways to reduce waste and maximize resources.
• Quality Manager collects, compiles, and analyzes relevant quality statistical data to obtain information regarding quality performance.
• Quality Manager approves compliant products and reject defective ones.
• Quality Manager collects and compiles relevant quality statistical data is also part of the quality manager description.

Corrective and Prevention Action (CAPA)

• Quality Manager reviews existing process and product specification to identify the need for improvement or upgrade.
• Quality Manager addresses both internal and external quality issues in order to bring to resolution.
• Quality Manager analyzes data for trends in order to prevent issues from occurring.

Audits

• Quality Manager conducts surveys to identify customer requirements and ensure they are being met by established quality standards.
• Quality Manager ensures manufacturing processes comply with local and global standards of production.
• Quality Manager conducts quality audits to make sure set quality policies and procedures are being adhered to.
• Quality Manager monitors product development processes to identify deviations from quality policies.
• Quality Manager assists external quality auditors in coordinating on-site audits.

Calibration

• Quality Manager maintains proper records of quality test, procedures and standards.
• Quality Manager maintains records and documentation of quality tests and other quality-related activities.

Supervisory

• Quality Manager oversees the recruitment and training of quality assurance personnel to ensure an effective work unit.
• Quality Manager organizes training for quality assurance staff to enhance their skill and knowledge of product quality requirements.
• Quality Manager supervises quality engineers, technicians, inspectors, and other company staff to ensure they perform their duties in line with established quality procedures.
• Quality Manager offers recommendations to company management on ways to improve on existing quality processes.
• Quality Manager collaborates with quality personnel to implement procedures, systems, and standards of operation.
• Quality Manager prepares and presents reports to update upper management on quality activities.
• Quality Manager prepares and presents to senior management reports of quality operations.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, engineering, or in other related discipline.
• 5+ years’ experience with PFMEA, PPAP/FAI, SPC and control plans
• Experience working with quality/safety standards ITAR, RoHS and OSHA
• Ability to use precise measuring equipment such as micrometers, calipers, gauge blocks, dial indicators, attribute gauges, height gauges, CMM and methodologies including Gage R&R
• Certified Quality Inspector/Auditor preferred
• 5+ years’ experience in Metals manufacturing (stamping, forming & welding) and quality assurance
• Experience with ISO 9001, 140001/ IATF16949 etc. implementation
• 1-3 years’ experience with Plex ERP, SAP, MRP or other manufacturing-wide resource systems
• 5+ years’ experience with SME Root Cause and Failure Analysis (CAPA), ASQ Design of Experiments, Lean and Total Quality Systems
• Experience with lean manufacturing principles (Six Sigma)
• Proficiency using Microsoft Suite (Excel, Access)

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