Senior Quality Engineering Manager — Heavy Equipment Manufacturing

Barbco Machine Manufacturing; East Canton (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Barbco, Inc. in East Canton, Ohio seeks a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to lead the quality system and ensure floor-ready processes for heavy equipment manufacturing.

You will own the QMS, drive CAPA and root-cause analysis, and partner with Production, Engineering, and Purchasing to elevate supplier quality and product conformity across welding, machining, assembly, and final inspection. Ideal candidates read prints, manage inspections, and coach teams to prevent recurrence through

Qualifications

• Hands-on manufacturing quality leadership; experience creating or upgrading a QMS.
• Root-cause analysis and corrective-action leadership.
• Ability to read prints and interpret specifications, tolerances, and inspection requirements.
• Working knowledge of measurement, inspection, and calibration processes.
• Experience partnering directly with production teams, supervisors, engineers, suppliers, and customers.
• Disciplined organization and documentation; sound judgment for tough calls.
• Lean, Six Sigma, 8D, FMEA, CAPA, APQP, and supplier quality experience a plus.
• Significant manufacturing experience and technical education valued over a four-year degree.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve Barbco’s internal quality management system.
• Define inspection points, quality gates, documentation, standards, and accountability.
• Lead CAPA and continuous improvement across the value stream.
• Administer nonconforming material, holds, rework, corrective actions, and final disposition.
• Strengthen incoming, in-process, final inspection, and product-release processes with metrics.
• Investigate field complaints, warranty issues, supplier performance, and manufacturing concerns.
• Set supplier quality expectations with Purchasing.
• Support welding, fabrication, machining, assembly, hydraulic, electrical, and finished-equipment quality.
• Ensure drawings, specs, work instructions, inspection criteria, and engineering changes are applied.
• Create simple, practical documentation; train and coach teams to problem-solve.
• Promote quality culture; stop-the-line authority when significant issue exists.
• Enable new product introduction and expansion into new equipment and markets.
• Walk the floor, guide team to solutions, and implement recurrence-preventing systems.

Skills

Quality leadership

Root-cause analysis

Print interpretation

Measurement & inspection

Supplier quality

Documentation

Lean Six Sigma

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree helpful

Job description

Senior Quality Engineering Manager — Heavy Equipment Manufacturing

Barbco, Inc. | East Canton, Ohio

Our culture

Family-owned. American-made. Trenchless industry innovators. We are expanding our product lines, modernizing our manufacturing systems, and developing our people to fuel Barbco’s next stage of growth.

The mission (bullet-first)

• Own Barbco’s internal quality management system—design it for real-world use, implement it, and continuously improve it.
• Keep quality upstream: define inspection points, quality gates, documentation, standards, and accountability.
• Lead root-cause analysis and CAPA; drive continuous improvement across the value stream.
• Administer nonconforming material, holds, rework, corrective actions, and final disposition with speed and rigor.
• Strengthen incoming, in-process, final inspection, and product-release processes, using metrics to highlight trends.
• Investigate field complaints, warranty issues, supplier performance, and internal manufacturing concerns.
• Set clear expectations for supplier quality and incoming materials in partnership with Purchasing.
• Support welding, fabrication, machining, assembly, hydraulic, electrical, and finished-equipment quality.
• Ensure drawings, specifications, work instructions, inspection criteria, and engineering changes are correctly applied.
• Create simple, practical documentation; train and coach teams to problem-solve effectively.
• Promote a company-wide quality culture; exercise stop-the-line authority when a significant issue exists.
• Enable new-product introduction and expansion into new equipment and markets.

Structure and scope

• Report directly to senior management; operate with high visibility and cross-functional influence.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Operations, Purchasing, Dealer Support, and senior management.
• This is not an ISO certification-driven position—focus on sustainable, floor-ready systems that improve outcomes.

What you bring

• Hands-on manufacturing quality leadership; experience creating or significantly upgrading a QMS.
• Proven root-cause analysis and corrective-action leadership.
• Ability to read prints and interpret specifications, tolerances, and inspection requirements.
• Working knowledge of measurement, inspection, and calibration processes.
• Experience partnering directly with production teams, supervisors, engineers, suppliers, and customers.
• Disciplined organization and documentation; sound judgment for tough calls.
• Change leadership that aligns quality with production, not against it.
• Action bias and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, 8D, FMEA, CAPA, APQP, and supplier quality is a plus; outcomes matter most.
• Four-year degree is helpful but not required; significant manufacturing experience, technical education, quality credentials, and proven leadership are valued.

Why you’ll thrive here

• Direct impact—work closely with leadership, engineers, skilled craftsmen, dealers, and customers.
• See your systems come to life on the floor and in the field.
• Barbco is investing in: new products and equipment platforms; manufacturing capabilities; technology and business systems; training and employee development; dealer and customer support; continuous improvement; the next generation of Barbco.

At Barbco, quality means how we design it, build it, document it, improve it, and stand behind it. If you want to architect the system—not just maintain someone else’s—this is your stage.

Industry signal

Market analysis highlights the importance of QMS ownership, CAPA/root-cause depth, audit leadership, print/fabrication literacy, and the ability to influence production.

Proficiencies

• Quality Inspection Experience
• Continuous Improvement
• 5 Why (Root Cause Analysis Method)
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
• Quality Control Experience
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Precision Measurement & Inspection
• Blueprint Reading

How we’ll work together

We’re looking for a leader who can walk the floor, quickly grasp what’s happening, ask incisive questions, guide the team to a solution, and implement a system so the issue doesn’t recur. Firm, not adversarial. Builder, not custodian. One team—production and quality.