Quality Manager (Advanced Flex Technologies)

Qnity Electronics, Inc.; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Qnity Electronics, Inc. is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to lead the QA team at the Towanda, PA plant. This role focuses on maintaining and improving the ISO 9001 quality management system, conducting internal audits, and driving quality performance through KPIs. You will work with engineering and manufacturing to reduce defects and oversee MRB processes. A bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of related experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a chemical engineering, chemistry, or materials science discipline.
• 7+ years in quality/manufacturing; 2+ years managing direct reports.
• Experience with ISO9001 audits and quality systems.
• Strong statistical knowledge: DOE, Control charts, MSA, Gage R&R.
• Proven leadership and problem-solving skills with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve ISO 9001 QMS in line with directives.
• Schedule and conduct internal audits per QMS requirements.
• Provide monthly quality KPIs and performance reports.
• Coordinate new quality methods to meet customer requirements and production goals.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and rapid resolution of complaints.
• Review product conformance and control limits.
• Drive quality improvements via SPC, DOE, and MSA initiatives.
• Oversee MRB/nonconforming processes and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing on process variables and tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Quality Assurance

Process Improvement

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science/engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Minitab

JMP

Job description

Quality Manager (Advanced Flex Technologies)

Qnity Electronics is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join our team within the Advanced Flex Technologies (AFT) group. This role will be responsible for managing the Quality Assurance team at the Towanda, PA plant including performance evaluations and goal setting, responsible for assigned process improvements initiatives, KPI’s and plant quality objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and strategically improve the ISO 9001 quality management system in compliance with site and organization directives.
• Schedule and conduct internal audits as required to comply with quality management system requirements.
• Provide monthly quality performance reports and KPI.
• Use specialized Quality Engineering knowledge to coordinate and initiate new quality methods to meet current and future customer requirements, planned organization objectives, and improved production capabilities and standards.
• Ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction are maintained for customer quality and customer complaint responsiveness
• Review conformance of products to specifications and control limits.
• Evaluate product yields and drive improvement activities via usage of Statistical Process Control methodologies
• Coordinate the preparation of reports from scrap,process control plans and quality procedures. Recommend changes to methods, equipment and personnel to improve quality and reduce costs. Discuss and resolve quality concerns with other departments.
• Coordinate resources for quality control to drive metrology MSA and GRR studies.
• Work with Engineering and manufacturing to review pre and post production process variables, problem areas, required inspection tooling, and required documentation.
• Control non-conformance both externally and internally including material non-conformance. Initiate, implement and verify corrective actions. This includes oversight to company MRB/Nonconforming processes.
• Work with engineering and manufacturing to reduce inspection percentage while decreasing defects via quality ownership (e.g., increased operator/setup involvement) and quality prevention initiatives.

Education/Experience/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science/Engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.
• Minimum of 7 years’ related experience in Quality and/or Manufacturing.
• Two plus years in managing direct reports.
• Experience using a statistical software program (e.g., Minitab, JMP™) is required
• Demonstrated understanding of statistical techniques including DOE, Control Charts, MSA, Gage R&R, ANOVA is required.
• Audit experience to the requirements of ISO9001; ISO9001 lead auditor certification is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership skills.