Quality Specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Quality Specialist Effective Date: 3/1/2022

Reports To: Quality Manager FLSA Status: Exempt

Purpose
The Quality Specialist is responsible for overseeing the success of the company’s quality management system, compliance with requirements, standards and regulations. The specialist’s duties include developing and implementing quality control processes. The specialist is also responsible to coordinate with the Certification engineer/Intern to achieve required certifications, develop plans to reach these certifications and coordinate with stakeholders to execute these plans.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
● Ensuring that products adhere to quality standards
● Preparing reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing data including Statistical Process Control, In-Process

Inspection Sheets, 8D corrective actions, Inspection Sheets, Corrective Action Requests and other tools
● Training and managing production line staff in production practices and quality assessment of goods
● Tracking products through the manufacturing process to guarantee that each part of the process is correct
● Performing detailed and recorded inspections of final products so they are up to industry and company standards
● Responsible for incoming quality and addressing supplier quality issues.Eliminating products that are not up to standards and finding the reasons for product problems
● Coordinate with Safety and Certifications engineer to determine certifications which the company should focus on and coordinate all aspects of the certification process with the external and internal stakeholders
● Participate in stakeholder meetings and provide guidance on quality
● Drive company’s certification processes
● Knowledge of regulatory bodies conformity processes
● Communicate with colleagues and subordinates as you coach them through certification programs
● Work directly with engineering and manufacturing departments to manage internal efforts to achieve quality goals

Required Qualifications
● Proven experience as a quality specialist
● BA or Bsc in relevant field preferred
● Excellent math/statistics abilities and working knowledge of statistical methods
● In depth understanding of quality control procedures and relevant legal standards
● Ability to prioritize and multi-task with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy

Other Skills
● Familiarity with quality standards and processes to follow federal, state and local regulations
● Experience preparing and earning IATF and ISO Certification of quality is a strong advantage
● Communication skills to convey information in reports, meetings and status reports
● Knowledge of the product to perform accurate quality control
● Attention to detail
● Analysis, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to review systems, find flaws and pose solutions to those
● Interpersonal skills
● Ability to handle stress

Physical Aspects of the job
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

● While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit,walk, talk, and hear.
● Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
● May require travel, depending on company needs.
● The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 lbs.
● Constant gross hand and finger dexterity, grasping and manipulating.
● The employee is occasionally required to move around the office
● The employee must be able to perform all duties while working under a deadline

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $72,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Southfield, MI

Salary : $60,000 - $72,000