Quality Manager

Standex International; Concord (NH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Standex International is a global industrial growth company delivering electronics, forming technologies, engraving, and scientific refrigeration. We collaborate with customers to advance progress through innovation and to enable electrification and energy infrastructure.

Standex Electronics designs custom solutions for sensing, switching, and power magnetics for high-reliability applications, with a worldwide manufacturing footprint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• Minimum 5 years in a leadership role in quality or engineering.
• Experience applying Lean Sigma, Six Sigma, or lean manufacturing.
• Knowledge of ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality improvement initiatives to establish a robust QMS.
• Manage supplier quality and corrective actions.
• Implement and maintain internal surveillance audits.
• Establish cross-functional training for quality testing and auditing.
• Coach and develop quality technicians in quality tools.
• Collaborate to standardize quality management across plants.

Skills

Lean Sigma

Six Sigma

Statistical Process Control

Quality Management Systems

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

PDCA

FMEA

Control Plans

MSA

Job description

Standex International is a global industrial growth company operating through our market-leading brands in electronics, cutting-edge forming technologies, engraving, and scientific refrigeration. We work with our customers to advance progress through innovation. From inventing and producing parts for next-generation space vehicles to evolving vaccine refrigeration, designing functional textures for everyday products, improving renewable energy technology, and much more, we are focused on making what’s next possible.

Standex Electronics designs custom engineered solutions across sensing, switching, and power magnetics for high-reliability applications.

Organized around three strategic platforms—DETECT, GRID, and EDGE—we design and manufacture technologies that enable precision sensing and measurement, efficient power conversion, and advanced electronic performance. Our solutions support the global acceleration of electrification, expand energy infrastructure, and power next-generation technologies across critical markets. We drive growth through new product development, deeper engagement with customers’ engineering, geographic expansion, and targeted acquisitions.

Our global manufacturing footprint spans the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, and India.

What You\'ll Do

• Quality Improvement
• Drives quality improvement efforts to establish and enforce an effective Quality Management System (QMS).
• Manages supplier quality and ensures a process is in place to provide feedback to suppliers when defects are found and ensures corrective actions are received.
• Implements and maintains internal surveillance audit process focused on ensuring adherence to the QMS
• Establishes cross-functional training programs in order to ensure quality technicians for skilled in quality testing methods and internal auditing.
• Coaches and develops plant Quality Technicians in the effective use of quality tools such as process audits, root cause countermeasure (PDCA), measurement systems analysis (MSA), statistical process control (SPC), and quality management systems (QMS).

• Quality Administration
• Leads the facility quality efforts and defines areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures.
• Establishes an effective quality management system by updating the quality assurance manual and procedures.
• Ensures that Change Management procedures are followed and communicated to all affected associates.
• Reviews and standardizes control plans, closed-loop corrective action systems, and quality management systems in all plants.
• Assures adherence to the internal audit plan to verify plant adherence to the quality management system.
• Assures supplier quality by enforcing quality assurance standards, policies, and industry/government requirements.
• Collaborate with other members of the quality organization to share best practices and ensure standardization across business units.
• Monitors the performance of the Quality Management System through data analysis and adherence to standards.
• Works with the facility management team to achieve overall financial objectives, reduce customer credits by making fiscally responsible business decisions and initiate corrective actions to prevent systemic issues from occurring.
• Monitor KPI: Scrap, RMA, Suppliers quality index, etc., and create countermeasures when goals are not achieved
• Work with a CSC (Sense of Crisis, Sense of Speed, and Sense of Communication) mindset

• Talent Management
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, achieving certifications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

What You\'ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role in one or more of the areas of quality or engineering
• Demonstrated problem solver with direct experience coaching, teaching, and applying Lean Sigma, six sigma, and/or lean manufacturing techniques.
• Skilled in statistical process control, change management, and legacy quality tools such as PDCA, FMEA, control plans, etc required.
• Skilled in ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements

Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.