Fastener Quality Manager — Hands-On Leader, 1st Shift

FurstStaffing; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Stable 1st shift schedule

Small-team environment

Long-term career opportunity

Job summary

FurstStaffing is seeking a Quality Manager for a fastener manufacturing facility in Rockford, IL. The role oversees daily quality lab functions, product inspection, and quality system activities, ensuring inspections meet written standards and customer requirements.

Responsibilities include using micrometers, calipers, gages, and optical comparators; reviewing production records; maintaining logs; supporting traceability and corrective actions; and contributing to PPAP documentation as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in fastener, screw, cold heading, cold forming, or precision component manufacturing.
• Strong hands-on inspection experience.
• Ability to read and interpret prints, specifications, and quality requirements.
• Familiarity with threaded fasteners, dimensional inspection, gages, and customer-specific requirements.
• Working knowledge of PPAP, APQP, FMEA, control plans, capability studies, corrective actions, or ISO documentation.
• Experience with gage calibration or gage management.
• Strong attention to detail and good documentation habits.
• Ability to communicate clearly with production, quality, management, customers, and vendors.
• Ability to work independently, stay organized, and manage multiple priorities.
• Willingness to learn, improve processes, and grow within the quality department.
• No degree required; relevant manufacturing and fastener experience valued.

Responsibilities

• Perform dimensional and visual inspections on raw material, in-process parts, customer samples, and finished fasteners.
• Use micrometers, calipers, ring gages, pin gages, optical comparators, thread gages, and other inspection equipment.
• Inspect parts according to customer prints, specifications, quality procedures, and internal requirements.
• Accept or reject product based on written standards and inspection results.
• Perform routine production line checks throughout the facility.
• Review production records for accuracy and completeness.
• Maintain inspection records, quality logs, software entries, and required documentation.
• Support lot traceability, retain samples, customer sample testing, and finished goods documentation.
• Assist with nonconforming material, quality alerts, customer complaints, corrective actions, and returned goods.
• Help investigate root cause and support containment, corrective action, and verification activities.
• Assist with PPAP-related documentation, control plans, process flows, capability data, and customer submissions as experience allows.
• Support gage calibration, gage inventory, certification tracking, and measurement control records.

Skills

Hands-on inspection

Read drawings

Documentation

Communication

Attention to detail

Gage calibration

Gage management

Clear communication

Independence

Multitasking

Tools

Micrometers

Calipers

Ring gages

Pin gages

Optical comparators

Thread gauges

Job description

FurstStaffing is seeking a Quality Manager for a fastener manufacturing facility in Rockford, IL. The role oversees daily quality lab functions, product inspection, and quality system activities, ensuring inspections meet written standards and customer requirements.

Responsibilities include using micrometers, calipers, gages, and optical comparators; reviewing production records; maintaining logs; supporting traceability and corrective actions; and contributing to PPAP documentation as needed.