Senior Quality Leader - Multi-Plant Ops

Advanced Digital Cable Llc; Blairsville (Indiana County); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

HSA

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Career Development

Safety Shoes Voucher

Job summary

Advanced Digital Cable, Inc. Blairsville, GA, seeks a Senior Manager, Quality to lead quality across three manufacturing plants, driving continuous improvement, reducing defects, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will shape the quality strategy, partner with operations, engineering, and suppliers, and elevate customer satisfaction. The role requires directing quality teams, implementing a robust QMS, and champions a culture of proactive problem solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, or a related technical field required.
• Quality leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, including experience managing direct reports.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, or improving a Quality Management System.
• Working knowledge of ISO quality systems and audit requirements; UL compliance strongly preferred.
• Experience leading root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to interpret customer specifications, purchasing specifications, quality requirements, and technical documentation.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, especially when addressing quality issues, corrective actions, and relationship-sensitive concerns.
• Experience working with suppliers on quality performance, specification compliance, corrective action, and process improvement.
• Proficiency with quality tools and methods such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, Pareto analysis, control plans, process audits, and data-based problem solving.
• Wire and cable manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the quality organization across three plants, providing direction, coaching, accountability, and development for Quality Supervisors and supporting quality personnel.
• Develop and implement a strategic quality plan that proactively drives process and product quality improvements, reduces defects, strengthens process capability, and improves customer satisfaction.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve a robust Quality Management System, including policies, procedures, work instructions, documentation controls, audit processes, and performance metrics.
• Ensure compliance with applicable ISO and UL standards, customer requirements, internal specifications, and regulatory or certification obligations.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Process Engineering, Customer Service, and leadership teams to identify risks, solve problems, and implement sustainable improvements.
• Lead customer quality issue resolution by coordinating investigation, containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, and effective communication to restore confidence and strengthen customer relationships.
• Work closely with Quality personnel and Process Engineers to determine root causes of product or process nonconformances and implement corrective and preventive actions that are verified for effectiveness.
• Hold raw material suppliers accountable for meeting purchasing specifications, quality requirements, and developing and executing corrective actions due to supplier-related quality issues.
• Collaborate with suppliers to improve their processes, strengthen supplier performance, and build productive long-term supplier relationships.
• Establish, monitor, and report quality performance indicators, including customer complaints, internal defects, supplier quality performance, corrective action closure, audit findings, scrap/rework, and cost of poor quality.
• Support internal, supplier, customer, ISO, and UL audits; ensure audit findings are addressed promptly and corrective actions are sustained.
• Promote a quality-first culture by training teams, reinforcing standard work, encouraging problem solving, and driving accountability at all levels.

Skills

Quality leadership

ISO quality systems

UL compliance

Root cause analysis

Corrective actions

Supplier quality

Data-based problem solving

Manufacturing experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality metrics

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/quality/manufacturing

Tools

5 Why

Fishbone analysis

Pareto analysis

Control plans

Process audits

Job description

Advanced Digital Cable, Inc. Blairsville, GA, seeks a Senior Manager, Quality to lead quality across three manufacturing plants, driving continuous improvement, reducing defects, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will shape the quality strategy, partner with operations, engineering, and suppliers, and elevate customer satisfaction. The role requires directing quality teams, implementing a robust QMS, and champions a culture of proactive problem solving.