Quality Assurance Manager

FOC Acquisitions; Ohio; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Technology Co, part of the Connexis Group, is hiring a Quality Assurance Manager in Dayton, OH. You will lead the QMS and serve as ISO 9001:2015 Management Representative, guiding audits, supplier quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The role requires a minimum of five years in a supervisory capacity with ISO 9001 experience, plus a degree in Industrial or Quality Engineering. You will oversee QA activities across high-reliability manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in a management or supervisory role with ISO 9001 experience.
• Industrial or Quality Engineering degree required (associate or bachelor).
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with ISO 9001:2015 requirements and maintaining a QMS.
• Experience in manufacturing environments, preferably high-reliability industries.
• Proven experience leading internal, supplier, customer, and external certification audits.
• Experience managing supplier quality, supplier performance evaluations, and supplier corrective actions.
• Experience with inspection and test methods, measurement systems, calibration, and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain QMS procedures and policies.
• Serve as Management Representative ISO 9001:2015.
• Plan and conduct internal, supplier, customer, and external audits.
• Promote customer requirements throughout the organization and manage corrective actions.
• Supervise inspection and testing processes and calibration system.
• Administer nonconformance system and ECO changes.
• Maintain quality records and audit schedules.

Skills

ISO 9001 experience

Management experience

Internal audits

Supplier audits

Customer audits

External audits

Supplier quality management

Inspection methods

Education

Industrial/Quality Engineering degree

Job description

PAVE Technology is part of the Connexis Group, which is a group of companies designing and manufacturing high-performance interconnect solutions for leading manufacturers across the medical, aerospace & defense, semiconductor, and industrial markets. Our companies specialize in hermetically sealed connectors and feedthroughs, fiber optic, and hybrid cable assemblies engineered for demanding environments where reliability and precision are essential. Together, Connexis companies combine specialized technologies, engineering, and manufacturing expertise to address complex interconnect challenges across critical applications.

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Manager at PAVE Technology Co, located in Dayton, OH. The Quality Assurance Manager determines personnel and equipment resource requirements across the Quality Department, and is the Management Representative ISO 9001:2015.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in developing the Quality Policy
• Establishes Quality objectives
• Establishes, implements, and maintains QMS procedures
• Reviews and approves QMS procedures
• Conducts Management Reviews of the QMS performance
• Promotes the awareness of Customer requirements throughout the organization
• Administers the Customer Feedback processes
• Maintains the Customer Contact System
• Administers the “Employee Continuous Improvement Program”
• Management Representative ISO 9001:2015
• Determines personnel and equipment resources
• Responds to Customer contacts
• Initiates and authorizes process improvements
• Supervises Receiving Inspection and Final Inspection
• Supervises high pressure and vacuum testingPerforms inspection and testing
• Supervises Quality Engineering
• Administers the Nonconformance System Reviews and approves new designs and design changes-ECO Process: assures quality procedures, processes and tools are defined & made available.
• Initiates and maintains production and QA work instructions
• Maintains and administers quality records.
• Plans, schedules, supervises and conducts both internal and supplier audits
• Manages the inspection and testing equipment calibration system
• Maintains Inspection and test equipment
• Monitors and evaluates supplier quality Initiates, evaluates, and maintains the Corrective Action System
• Conducts QMS training Conducts ISO training
  

Requirements

• A minimum of five years’ experience in a Management or Supervisory position with ISO 9001 experience.
• Industrial or Quality Engineering degree required, associate or bachelor degree.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with ISO 9001:2015 requirements, including maintaining, auditing, and continuously improving a Quality Management System (QMS).
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably involving precision components, electromechanical assemblies, aerospace and defense, medical devices, semiconductor, or other high-reliability industries.
• Proven experience leading internal audits, supplier audits, customer audits, and external certification audits.
• Experience managing supplier quality, supplier performance evaluations, and supplier corrective action requests.
• Experience with inspection and test methods, measurement systems, equipment calibration, and measurement traceability.