Quality Assurance Leader: Drive Process Excellence & Safety

Ambe; North Baltimore (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambe is seeking a Quality leader to establish and monitor department goals, standards, and product quality across internal and external customers. The role collaborates with engineering, production, and suppliers to drive issue resolution, process improvements, and safety compliance.

The candidate will drive quality reviews, track defects, and ensure the Quality System remains suitable and effective, while supporting training and KPI reporting to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish and track Quality department goals and objectives.
• Determine Quality department standards, practices, and procedures.
• Establish and maintain product Quality Standards.
• Track external customer Quality issues, e.g., concerns, rejections, PPM, and 8D problem solving.
• Track internal customer Quality issues, i.e., Rejection Tags and Process Alerts.
• Track supplier Quality issues and performance.
• Support plant safety procedures and safety policies.
• Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing.
• Allocate Quality resources to project teams, programs, and manufacturing process improvement teams.
• Assist in daily review of production quality performance.
• Assist Production and Maintenance to achieve effective and efficient production of quality parts.
• Schedule and chair regular Quality Review meetings to Appraise Management of Quality Department issues to ensure suitability and effectiveness of Quality System.
• Work with Engineering to develop project launch strategy, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, MSA and IATF16949 requirements.
• Work with Quality Engineers and Technicians to document trends in quality, compare against customer standards and plant goals.
• Support advance Quality activities, elements and schedules.
• Represents Carey plant to the customer in the area of Quality.
• Develop short- and long-term strategy to support customer requirements, as required.
• Manage safety as an equal to other key functions.
• Monitor departmental action items to ensure timely and effective correction of issues.
• Hold supervision and employees accountable for safety activities.
• Support safety training and ensure personnel are in attendance.
• Know details of all injuries and of corrective actions taken.
• Department and assigned plant KPI reports.
• Plant-level Monthly Quality Report to Director of Quality.
• Overall Quality department goals and plan.
• Annual employee performance reviews.
• Customer issues and corrective actions logs.
• Process Alert and nonconformance Rejection logs.

Job description

Ambe is seeking a Quality leader to establish and monitor department goals, standards, and product quality across internal and external customers. The role collaborates with engineering, production, and suppliers to drive issue resolution, process improvements, and safety compliance.

The candidate will drive quality reviews, track defects, and ensure the Quality System remains suitable and effective, while supporting training and KPI reporting to leadership.