Quality Control Manager

Manufacturing Technologies; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 82,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Leadership advancement opportunities

Job summary

Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. in Lansing, MI is seeking a Quality Control Manager who excels in interpersonal skills and ownership.

You will translate stakeholder asks into clear Change Management plans, and drive accountability across the team with strong communication and decisive leadership. The role emphasizes ownership over general work, with the potential to advance into leadership within the organization.

Qualifications

• Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny.
• Calm under the ruthlessly-focused chaos a manager role tends to generate.
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve.
• Comfort steering general conversations toward a decision.
• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat.
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes.

Responsibilities

• Translate fuzzy stakeholder asks into a crisp Change Management plan.
• Anticipate the MI compliance wrinkle before it becomes a fire
• Notice when a general metric is lying and dig in
• Close the loop on every Lansing request you touch
• Chase down the root cause instead of slapping on a patch
• Convert Negotiation chaos into a backlog someone can actually work
• Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Ownership mindset

Job description

A Quality Control Manager who loves Interpersonal Skills will feel at home in our Lansing, MI team, where good ideas outrank job titles. The headline is $82,000 - $115,000, but the story is ownership — general work you steer at Manufacturing Technologies after just 6 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate fuzzy stakeholder asks into a crisp Change Management plan
• Anticipate the MI compliance wrinkle before it becomes a fire
• Notice when a general metric is lying and dig in
• Close the loop on every Lansing request you touch
• Chase down the root cause instead of slapping on a patch
• Convert Negotiation chaos into a backlog someone can actually work
• Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment

What You'll Bring

• Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
• Calm under the ruthlessly-focused chaos a manager role tends to generate
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Comfort steering general conversations toward a decision
• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
• 7+ years navigating the politics that general work attracts

Manufacturing Technologies is a generously-mentoring Lansing, MI studio where Innovation gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. We build an environment where warm-yet-rigorous ideas get tested quickly and credit is shared fairly.

This position offers $82,000 - $115,000, comprehensive benefits, and genuine room to advance into leadership within general.