QMS Leader: ISO 9001 Excellence & Audit Champion

Integra; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Comprehensive healthcare

Life and disability insurance

Flexible benefits

Generous paid time off

Education assistance and tuition

Retirement and savings programs

Job summary

Integra in Houston is seeking a Quality Management Systems Manager to lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the company’s QMS across multiple functions. You will own processes, documentation, records, and metrics while ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 principles and customer requirements.

You will collaborate with Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Quality, Engineering Quality, and field operations to strengthen audit readiness, document control, and data integrity,

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 to 12 years of progressive experience in quality management systems, quality assurance, internal auditing, document control, corrective action management, process governance, or QMS administration within manufacturing, engineering, construction, mission‑critical, industrial, energy, or complex equipment environments.
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience leading QMS programs, audit programs, process improvement initiatives, people, or cross-functional quality system activities.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality management, industrial technology, construction management, business, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification strongly preferred; ASQ, Six Sigma, Lean, Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, or related quality credentials are a plus.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining, improving, or scaling a QMS; managing internal audit programs; supporting external audits; facilitating management review; and driving corrective action closure across multiple functions or sites.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 principles, process ownership, risk‑based thinking, management review, internal auditing, root cause analysis, CAPA, document control, records management, training compliance, and QMS performance metrics.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to support audits, site assessments, QMS deployment, and quality system improvement activities (10–20%).

Responsibilities

• Own the administration, governance, and ongoing improvement of the Quality Management System, including process architecture, controlled documentation, records, procedures, standards, workflows, and system health monitoring.
• Ensure QMS processes are clearly defined, assigned, communicated, and integrated into core business processes across corporate, manufacturing, integration, commissioning, engineering, supplier quality, and field teams.
• Maintain alignment between the QMS, ISO 9001 principles, customer requirements, regulatory expectations, internal policies, and Integra’s enterprise quality operating model.
• Partner with process owners to document, standardize, and improve key business processes using risk-based thinking, measurable controls, and clear ownership of QMS requirements.
• Maintain quality frameworks, document control practices, records management, and data integrity controls that support standardized execution, traceability, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Own and manage the QMS internal audit program, including annual audit planning, audit criteria, schedules, execution, reporting, finding closure, and effectiveness verification.
• Serve as the primary company liaison for external quality system audits, registrar audits, customer audits, and applicable third-party quality organizations.
• Coordinate audit preparation activities, ensuring objective evidence, records, process owners, audit responses, and corrective actions are complete, accurate, and available on schedule.
• Lead management review planning and execution by consolidating QMS performance, audit results, corrective action status, customer feedback, process performance, risks, opportunities, resource needs, and improvement actions into an executive-ready summary.
• Track decisions and actions from management review to ensure leadership commitments, resource needs, and improvement priorities are assigned, followed up, and closed effectively.
• Strengthen corrective and preventive action processes, ensuring NCRs, audit findings, customer concerns, process gaps, and repeat issues are addressed through disciplined root cause analysis, containment, corrective action, and effectiveness checks.
• Define, track, and report QMS performance metrics such as audit completion, finding closure, corrective action aging, repeat findings, document control performance, training compliance, customer feedback, and overall QMS effectiveness.
• Analyze QMS data and quality trends to identify systemic gaps, process risks, recurring nonconformities, and improvement opportunities across functions and sites.
• Partner with Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, and process owners to implement preventive controls, standardized work, and sustainable improvements that strengthen QMS maturity.
• Stay current on ISO standard revisions, QMS best practices, audit expectations, lean/Six Sigma methods, and industry quality requirements that may affect Integra’s quality system and certification readiness.

Skills

Quality management systems

Auditing

ISO 9001 principles

Process governance

Documentation control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Integra in Houston is seeking a Quality Management Systems Manager to lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the company’s QMS across multiple functions. You will own processes, documentation, records, and metrics while ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 principles and customer requirements.

You will collaborate with Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Quality, Engineering Quality, and field operations to strengthen audit readiness, document control, and data integrity,