Quality Inspection Lead — Process Improvement & Coaching

Trane Italia; La Crosse (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Holistic wellness programs

Fertility coverage

Adoption/ surrogacy assistance

Paid time off

401K matching

Tuition assistance

Student debt support

Job summary

Trane Technologies in La Crosse, WI seeks an Inspection Quality Supervisor to lead the inspection team, ensuring quality across welding, machining, assembly, and testing processes. You will hire, train, and coach inspectors, drive standard work, and maintain staffing to support production, while applying lean principles and ensuring conformance to drawings and specifications.

The role requires strong leadership, 5+ years of experience, ASME/PED exposure preferred, and solid MS Office skills.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of related work experience.
• ASME/PED pressure vessel code exposure preferred.
• Associates degree in weld technology or AWS CWI certificate preferred.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach the Inspection team to improve FPY while maintaining TAKT.
• Coordinate weld, braze, machining, assembly, and test inspections to meet specs.
• Hire, train, and qualify inspectors per union guidelines and policies.
• Plan staffing to cover shifts and overtime to meet production needs.
• Develop standard work and perform audits of parts and assemblies.
• Ensure drawings and specs match inspection requirements and train on shop-floor systems.
• Identify, document, and dispose non-conforming parts.
• Collaborate with engineering, materials, fabrication and quality staff.
• Lead year-end and mid-year reviews for the inspection team.
• Apply root-cCause analysis and problem solving to mitigate production impact.
• Participate in continuous improvement events.

Skills

Leadership

Team building

Communication

MS Office

Lean/Six Sigma

ISO audit

ASME/PED exposure

Education

High School degree

Assoc. degree weld tech / AWS CWI

Job description

Trane Technologies in La Crosse, WI seeks an Inspection Quality Supervisor to lead the inspection team, ensuring quality across welding, machining, assembly, and testing processes. You will hire, train, and coach inspectors, drive standard work, and maintain staffing to support production, while applying lean principles and ensuring conformance to drawings and specifications.

The role requires strong leadership, 5+ years of experience, ASME/PED exposure preferred, and solid MS Office skills.