Quality Manager, Plastic Injection Molding

rehrig; Buckeye (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rehrig is seeking a Quality Manager at our Buckeye, AZ plant to oversee and continuously improve the plant's quality system, aligning with customer requirements and company standards. You will lead a team of quality technicians, drive reduction in process variation, and manage new product quality during NPI.

The role requires 5+ years in quality management (preferably plastic injection molding), strong problem-solving skills, and experience with validation and quality tools (SPC, DMAIC, APQP,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science or engineering preferred, not required.
• 5+ years of Quality Management/Control Experience (ideally in plastic injection molding).
• Direct experience in Plastic Injection Molding.
• Ability to manage a team of 6-10 quality techs.
• Direct experience with validation, problem solving, and risk tools and processes (examples: SPC, DMAIC, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DOE, Flow Charting, Six Sigma).
• Develop and implement processes from ground up.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and departments.

Responsibilities

• Verify quality requirements are communicated, understood and achieved.
• Lead plant team to achieve internal quality metrics (NCP, scrap, % TL defective, case closure timing, etc).
• Establish and document an improvement plan to improve internal quality metrics year-over-year.
• Deliver standard quality reports on-time, on-quality (NCP, Quality Scorecard, Case related VCs, internal quality actions etc.).
• Measure product/process variation with SPC; Partner with engineering to identify and eliminate special causes and improve Cpk.
• Train plant personnel on new product quality requirements in advance of production start.
• Support validation activities including process capability assessments, GR & R, materials and product testing and process trials.
• Establish ongoing compliance to documented process and product requirements developed during production startup.
• Manage on-time completion of plant's pending actions from NPI activity.
• Lead plant team through containment, root-cause analysis & corrective actions for product quality issues with strong sense of urgency.
• Verify corrective actions are fully effective at preventing recurrence and completely implemented on-time; Perform or oversee post-implementation audits.

Skills

Quality management

Team leadership

Process improvement

Statistical methods

Six Sigma

FMEA

DMAIC

APQP

PPAP

DOE

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Tools

SPC

DMAIC

APQP

PPAP

FMEA

DOE

Flow Charting

Six Sigma

Job description

Rehrig is seeking a Quality Manager at our Buckeye, AZ plant to oversee and continuously improve the plant's quality system, aligning with customer requirements and company standards. You will lead a team of quality technicians, drive reduction in process variation, and manage new product quality during NPI.

The role requires 5+ years in quality management (preferably plastic injection molding), strong problem-solving skills, and experience with validation and quality tools (SPC, DMAIC, APQP,