Manufacturing Quality Leader & Continuous Improvement

CPM Holdings, Inc; Iowa; On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid holidays

401k

Medical/dental insurance

Tuition assistance

Job summary

CPM Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Quality Manager to lead the facility's quality function, ensuring products, processes, and systems meet CPM, customer, and regulatory requirements.

You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Customer Service to prevent and resolve quality issues and drive continuous improvement on the shop floor. You will lead a hands-on team, promote quality accountability, and foster collaboration across CPM locations to share best practices and strengthen

Qualifications

• Five+ years of progressive quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with root cause analysis, corrective actions, nonconformance management, and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with customers and suppliers to resolve quality concerns.
• Experience in fabrication, assembly, or similar industrial manufacturing environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality department providing direction, coaching, development, workload prioritization, and accountability for team members.
• Maintain and continuously improve the facility's Quality Management System (QMS) in accordance with CPM standards and customer requirements.
• Partner with Operations and other functional leaders to establish quality expectations and ensure quality is integrated into daily manufacturing activities.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor to identify concerns, support employees and supervisors, and resolve issues at the point of occurrence.
• Ensure products meet customer specifications, engineering drawings, work instructions, and CPM quality standards through appropriate inspection and testing processes.
• Develop, monitor, and communicate key quality metrics, including scrap, rework, nonconformances, customer complaints, cost of poor quality, and corrective action performance.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of internal and external quality issues, including nonconforming material and customer complaints, using root cause analysis, containment, corrective action, and follow‑up.
• Maintain quality procedures, work instructions, control plans, inspection processes, records, and other required documentation.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Purchasing to address supplier quality and performance concerns.
• Coordinate and participate in internal, customer, supplier, and third‑party audits and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Identify quality trends and recurring issues and work cross‑functionally to implement sustainable process improvements.
• Provide quality‑related training and support to strengthen quality awareness, ownership, and accountability throughout the facility.
• Build effective working relationships across departments and CPM locations to share best practices and support organizational initiatives.

Skills

Quality management

Leadership

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Communication

ERP systems

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Quality Management System (QMS)

Job description

CPM Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Quality Manager to lead the facility's quality function, ensuring products, processes, and systems meet CPM, customer, and regulatory requirements.

You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Customer Service to prevent and resolve quality issues and drive continuous improvement on the shop floor. You will lead a hands-on team, promote quality accountability, and foster collaboration across CPM locations to share best practices and strengthen