Quality Manager

Howmet Aerospace has an immediate opening for a Quality Manager at our Niles, OH location. Our passionate commitment to quality provides the successful candidate with an excellent environment in which to work and the leadership commitment and support to deliver results. This position is a key member of the location's lead team and is highly visible position in the plant and Titanium Mill Products Segment. The position provides an excellent platform for potential future growth to the successful candidate.

Key Responsibilities of this position include:

* Developing and implementing the Quality Management Operating System to measure the performance of the business and drive continuous improvement through corrective and preventive action processes. This includes coaching Quality, Process Engineering, and Metallurgical Personnel in plant-wide Quality and Engineering metrics (i.e.: root cause, corrective action, and problem-solving best practices) to improve the effectiveness and suitability of our quality management systems.

* Developing and implementing processes, procedures, and audits related to the overall quality system, such as driving the implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) principles in the plants, establishing a single quality system, and overseeing the supplier quality management system. This includes the approved supplier quality list, approved special processes list, and field quality management.

* Creating, developing, and reporting standardized business wide quality metrics. This includes taking all metrics based on scrap, rework, thermal deviations, concessions, and customer returns and reporting those out to both our Niles location and Business Unit, via daily management meetings and weekly reports.

* Planning, coordinating, and executing all strategic quality planning for new products, change management, and product and process development programs. This includes overseeing the process development of new products as ordered by our customers and putting all the controls in place to ensure quality products.

* Assessing the performance of current quality technical staff and leading efforts in training as needed. This includes participating in the implementation and training of Quality personnel if/when mistakes are made to determine what areas need to be strengthened and how they should be trained (i.e.: webinars, outside classes, etc.).

* Communicating all customer's expectations throughout the organization and eliciting drive from the entire team of Quality, Process Engineering, and Metallurgical Personnel on meeting these expectations. This includes interfacing with Quality and Engineering personnel to analyze and prioritize current and future customer quality requirements to systemically improve our quality systems allowing us to exceed customer expectations.

* Presenting product quality to potential customers; handling/troubleshooting customer complaint activity involving product quality, product liability matters and quality systems; coordinating activity required in customer and third-party audits; and managing all facets of product recall efforts and customer returns.

* Guiding Process Engineering efforts to reduce scrap and rework through process control, utilizing problem solving, statistical analysis, and overall variation reduction initiatives. This also includes providing technical support with respect to Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques to monitor and measure process performance and ensure compliance of quality requirements in relation to customer and company specifications.

* Providing leadership and direction to Metallurgical Personnel on implementing systems and control procedures to assure the quality of our product/processes and on implementing effective corrective actions and technical problem solving to ensure all non-conforming parts and equipment meet customer requirements and industry specifications.

* Directing implementation and oversight of manufacturing and quality systems in compliance with the Aerospace Quality Standards prescribed in AS9100/ISO9002 and NADCAP Accreditation for Special Processes to assure compliance with all customers, corporate, and management system requirements.

* Supervising personnel responsible for systems control and development to establish and improve plant standard procedures, practices, and product quality targets. This entails determining proper solutions to new or existing quality problems, assuring that appropriate timely action is taken to conform to requirements, managing resources (equipment and staffing), and utilizing outside sources when necessary due to time constraints, capability limitations, or costs.

* Performing other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

For this position to be successful, the incumbent should have:

* A Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution.

* Minimum of 7 years' experience working in manufacturing companies; 5 years working in Engineering and/or Quality

* Minimum 5 years of management and/or supervisory experience.

• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

For this position to be successful, preference is given to candidates with:

* A Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Quality from an accredited institution.

* ASQ Certified Quality Manager credentials.

* 7 or more years of manufacturing experience.

* Certified in AS9100 quality system standard (preferred) or ISO9001.

* Experience Leading a manufacturing company through successful ISO/AS registration and successfully completed an accredited auditor training course and related auditor test.

* Internal auditing quality experience.

* Experience with root cause corrective action & problem solving (e.g. 5 Why, 8-D or six sigma methodology).

* Previous experience in a unionized environment.