Quality Control Manager
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Job Location:
Bristol, CT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: Quality Manager
Location: Bristol IN
Reports To: General Manager Suites
Department: Quality
Role Overview
The Quality Manager is responsible for building leading and maintaining a quality system that ensures our trailers meet internal standards customer expectations and applicable regulations. This role is hands-on and visible on the shop floor. The Quality Manager partners closely with Operations Engineering Supply Chain and Production to prevent defects solve problems at the root cause and continuously improve how we build product. This person will also help to drive warranty claims or issues to long term solutions in engineering and production.
This is not a desk-only role. Success comes from strong leadership sound judgment and the ability to balance quality safety and production realities.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Systems & Compliance
Production & Process Quality
Location: Bristol IN
Reports To: General Manager Suites
Department: Quality
Role Overview
The Quality Manager is responsible for building leading and maintaining a quality system that ensures our trailers meet internal standards customer expectations and applicable regulations. This role is hands-on and visible on the shop floor. The Quality Manager partners closely with Operations Engineering Supply Chain and Production to prevent defects solve problems at the root cause and continuously improve how we build product. This person will also help to drive warranty claims or issues to long term solutions in engineering and production.
This is not a desk-only role. Success comes from strong leadership sound judgment and the ability to balance quality safety and production realities.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Systems & Compliance
- Own and maintain the plant Quality Management System including procedures work instructions and records
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations (DOT FMVSS ISO if applicable and internal requirements)
- Lead internal audits and support customer supplier and regulatory audits
- Establish and track key quality metrics such as defects scrap rework and warranty issues
Production & Process Quality
- Partner with Production and Engineering to ensure quality is built into processes not inspected in at the end
- Develop and enforce inspection plans control plans and testing requirements for in-process and final product
- Act as the final authority on quality holds quality alerts nonconforming material and disposition decisions
- Support new product launches and engineering changes with appropriate quality planning
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions using structured problem-solving tools
- Drive corrective action for internal defects customer complaints and warranty issues
- Identify trends and proactively address systemic issues
- Support and participate in continuous improvement initiatives across the plant
- Work with Purchasing and Supply Chain to establish supplier quality expectations
- Support supplier audits performance reviews and corrective actions
- Manage incoming inspection requirements and risk-based inspection strategies
- Lead and develop Quality Inspectors and Quality Technicians
- Set clear expectations provide coaching and hold the team accountable
- Promote a culture where quality and safety are everyones responsibility
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Quality Manufacturing or a related field or equivalent experience
- 5 years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in fabrication welding or assembly
- Working knowledge of quality tools such as root cause analysis corrective action SPC and audits
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how quality decisions impact production
- Experience in trailer vehicle or heavy equipment manufacturing
- Familiarity with DOT FMVSS and regulatory compliance related to trailers
- Experience with ISO 9001 or similar quality management systems
- Quality certifications such as CQE CQA or Six Sigma
- Comfortable on the shop floor and confident working with production teams
- Able to make tough calls while maintaining strong working relationships
- Clear communicator who can explain quality issues in practical terms
- Organized detail-oriented and disciplined in follow-through
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Reduced defects scrap and rework
- Fewer escapes and warranty issues reaching customers
- Clear consistent quality processes that production trusts and follows
- A quality team that is engaged respected and effective
- Quality viewed as a partner to operations not an obstacle
Compensation:
The pay range listed is the base pay range that Satellite Shelters inc/Satellite Industries Inc. reasonably expects to pay someone for this position (compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors including but not limited to a candidates qualifications skills competencies experience location and end client requirements).
Benefits and Ancillaries:
Medical dental vision PTO benefits and ancillaries may be available for eligible employees and vary based on the plan options selected by the employee.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Quality Assurance
- Construction Experience
- FDA Regulations
- ISO 9001
- Assays
- Quality Systems
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- cGMP
- QA/QC
- HACCP
About Company
We manufacture portable toilets and Portable restrooms, restroom, vacuum services, trucks/tanks, deodorizers, hand wash units and other accessories for portable toilets and restrooms at construction and outdoor events.
