Head - Quality Assurance - Cables Manufacturing (15-20 yrs)

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

- Implement robust quality systems in a highly complex manufacturing environment.

- Be accountable for the quality of Samtec's high-speed coaxial cable manufacturing and processes at our Oregon and Costa Rica cable manufacturing sites.

- Support resolution of downstream cable quality issues by managing and coordinating activities across Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, and Engineering organizations at other Company's sites,.

- Proactively engage in the product/process development and preproduction stages to ensure new products and processes are introduced with robust quality controls.

- Partner with Engineering and Operations leaders to form a cohesive team, ensuring adequate resource levels for a high quality, interrupt free manufacturing environment.

- Drive continuous improvement within operations through use of Six Sigma, lean manufacturing techniques, and consistent use of PFMEA and Production Control Plans.

- Customer Quality: Partner with Customer Quality Engineering (CQE) on identification of root cause of quality issues and execution of product quality improvements through preventive or corrective actions. Occasionally interface with customers for quality-related excursions, lead customer audits, and collect and summarize customer quality data to drive improvement.

- Direct Manufacturing Quality Engineering (MQE) in execution of investigations and improvement efforts.

- Supplier Quality: Partner with Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) to perform supplier qualifications, monitoring, investigations, and audits to minimize quality risk from incoming materials.

- Ensure Quality engineering support for R&D, marketing, and operations for the development, modification, and qualification of new products and existing released products.

- Ensure proper documentation of processes exists and is being followed.

- Work to sustain and improve quality management systems of ISO-9001, IATF 16949, and others.

The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities.

Required Experience

- Extensive experience developing or manufacturing products involving complex manufacturing processes such as cable extrusion, shielding (serve/braid), signal-integrity testing, use of SCADA systems, etc (>5 years required).

- Minimum 3 years experience in Quality Management

- Operations/Manufacturing Management is a must.

- Understanding of Lean Manufacturing concepts.

- Knowledge of ISO 9001 QMS Standard

Preferred Experience

- Quality certifications are desirable (Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor or related)

- Knowledge of other quality standards such as AS9100, ISO 13485, or IATF 16949 is preferred.

Education

- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related discipline required.