Quality Manager

ENVICOOL; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ENVICOOL is seeking a hands-on Quality Manager to lead shop-floor quality across incoming materials, production processes, finished products, suppliers, and customer quality. This is a shop-floor-based player-coach role, not a desk-based quality systems position.

You will personally investigate significant defects, lead containment and root cause verification, and drive corrective actions through effective closure on critical quality issues that affect production and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience leading on the shop floor in equipment manufacturing.
• Proven track record resolving quality issues with effective containment.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and 8D methodology.

Responsibilities

• Lead IQC, IPQC, FQC, and OQC activities with inspection plans and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain daily presence on the production floor and troubleshoot quality issues in assembly, testing, and leak checks.
• Lead containment, root cause analysis, CAPA, and close corrective actions for defects.
• Monitor supplier quality, issue supplier corrective actions, and support supplier audits.
• Define final and outgoing inspection requirements and review release records.
• Oversee customer inspections, complaints, returns, and 8D investigations to closure.
• Maintain ISO 9001 controls and support audits and cost-of-quality reductions.
• Develop and coach the inspection team while handling high-risk quality tasks.

Skills

Shop-floor quality mgmt

8D problem solving

CAPA & ISO 9001

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above in Engineering

Tools

IQC/IPQC/FQC/OQC processes

Quality data analysis

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on Quality Manager to lead factory quality operations across incoming materials, production processes, finished products, suppliers, and customer quality. This is a shop-floor-based player-coach role, not a desk-based quality systems position. The Quality Manager must personally investigate significant defects, lead containment and root cause verification, and drive corrective actions through effective closure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead IQC, IPQC, FQC, and OQC activities and ensure inspection plans, specifications, sampling requirements, control plans, and acceptance criteria are consistently applied.
• Maintain a strong daily presence on the production floor and personally troubleshoot quality issues involving assembly, welding and brazing, leak testing, evacuation, refrigerant charging, electrical checks, functional testing, and run-in testing.
• Lead immediate containment, nonconforming product control, root cause analysis, CAPA, and effectiveness verification for defects such as refrigerant leaks, abnormal noise or vibration, water leaks, workmanship defects, and cooling-performance deviations.
• Monitor supplier quality performance, issue and close supplier corrective actions, support supplier audits, and prevent supplier-related risks from affecting production.
• Define final and outgoing inspection requirements, review release records, and ensure nonconforming products are contained before shipment.
• Manage customer inspections, complaints, returns, and field quality issues; independently lead 8D investigations through verified closure.
• Maintain ISO 9001 controls, use quality data to reduce defects and cost of poor quality, and lead customer or third-party audit closure.
• Lead and develop the inspection team while personally executing critical quality work when production, shipment, or customer risk requires immediate action.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above from an accredited full-time degree program.
• At least five years of hands-on Quality Supervisor or Quality Manager experience in equipment manufacturing.
• Proven experience personally resolving shop-floor quality problems; experience limited mainly to documentation, reporting, or administrative management does not meet this requirement.
• Strong knowledge of IQC, IPQC, FQC, OQC, 8D, root cause analysis, CAPA, nonconformance control, and ISO 9001、ISO16949.
• HVAC or air-conditioning manufacturing experience is preferred; major HVAC manufacturer experience is highly preferred.
• Professional working proficiency in English is required.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, strong teamwork, and effective cross-functional collaboration skills are preferred.