Quality Assurance Manager

CSP; Conneaut (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

CSP is seeking an experienced Quality Supervisor at its Conneaut, OH plant to lead quality initiatives, monitor KPIs, and ensure compliance with IATF16949 standards. The role collaborates with engineering and production to drive defect reduction and strong supplier performance.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in quality supervision or manufacturing, with a BS degree and solid knowledge of SPC, part layouts, and automotive portals.

Qualifications

• Requires a BS degree from a credited college, university or technical school.
• Ten years related experience and/or training in quality supervision or manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of part layout, SPC, engineering specifications, IATF16949 and manufacturing operations, class "A" exterior body panels (preferred), and automotive customer portals.

Responsibilities

• Support plant safety procedures and safety policies.
• Establish and track quality department goals and objectives (KPIs).
• Determine quality department standards, practices, and procedures.
• Ensure compliance to quality standards.
• Track supplier quality issues and performance.
• Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing.
• Assist in daily review of production quality performance.
• Schedule and chair regular quality review meetings to appraise management of quality issues.

Skills

Quality supervision

Safety procedures

Audits

KPIs

APQP

PPAP

MSA

IATF16949

Part layout

Automotive portals

Education

Bachelor's degree (BS)

Tools

SPC

Job description

• Support plant safety procedures and safety policies
• Conduct daily safety audits to ensure employee safety
• Establish and track quality department goals and objectives (KPIs)
• Determine quality department standards, practices, and procedures
• Ensure compliance to quality standards
• Track external customer quality rejections an internal quality concerns
• Track supplier Quality issues and performance
• Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing
• 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 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 ISO9001/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 Conneaut plant at 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
• Department and assigned plant KPIs
• Plant-level Monthly Quality Report to Corporate Quality
• Overall Quality department goals and plan
• Employee training, development plan and status report
• Annual employee performance reviews
• Customer issues and corrective actions logs
• Process Alert and nonconformance Rejection logs

Qualifications:

• Requires a BS degree from a credited college, university or technical school.
• Ten years related experience and/or training in quality supervision or manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of part layout, SPC, engineering specifications, IATF16949 and manufacturing operations, class "A" exterior body panels (preferred), and automotive customer portals.