Manufacturing Quality Manager (Direct Placement for Client) - Sigma Design

Sigma Design has collaborated with an electronic components manufacturer seeking an experienced Manufacturing Quality Manager to join their facility in Wilsonville, OR. This company is a leading global manufacturer of interconnect solutions, specializing in high-speed board-to-board, cable, and terminal block products used across multiple industries like computing, telecommunications, medical, industrial and instrumentation. This position is 100% in-office in Wilsonville, OR.

What Is Offered:

• Exceptional healthcare coverage (PPO, HSA, FSA), with company contributions to HSA plans.  Single coverage on HAS plan is zero premium with $3200 deductible and maximum out of pocket.
• Retirement/profit sharing plans: 401k- 12% , company matches the first 5%, adds 7% for profit sharing
• PTO (vacation/sick time starting at 4 weeks, and holidays)
• Bonus structure
• Salary: $120,000-150,000 DOE

Primary Function:
The Manufacturing Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring quality and continuous improvement are integrated into the development and manufacturing of the client’s products and products. This position is part of the site leadership team.

Essential Job Functions - Responsibilities:

• Implement robust quality systems in a highly complex manufacturing environment.
• Be accountable for the quality of the client’s high-speed coaxial cable manufacturing and processes at our Oregon and Costa Rica cable manufacturing sites.
• Support manufacturing transfers of products/machines to the client’s facility in Costa Rica.  
• Support resolution of downstream cable quality issues by managing and coordinating activities across Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, and Engineering organizations at other client sites, including New Albany, Indiana; Costa Rica, Malaysia, China, and Taiwan.
• 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.

Education and Experience: (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)

• Bachelors of Science in Engineering or related discipline required.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in quality management
• Extensive experience developing or manufacturing products involving complex manufacturing processes such as cable extrusion, ribbonization, shielding (serve/braid), signal-integrity testing, use of SCADA systems, etc. (>5 years required).
• Operations/Manufacturing Management is a must.
• Understanding of Lean Manufacturing concepts.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 QMS Standard  
• Quality certifications are desirable (Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor or related) preferred
• Knowledge of other quality standards such as AS9100, ISO 13485, or IATF 16949 is preferred.
• Pass a post offer background check

Work Environment
Engineering: Standard office environment with normal amounts of office related conditions. Occasionally may be required to work in environmental conditions that emulate typical user environments in order to facilitate design testing and validation.  Occasionally may be required to travel as required to other facilities, clients, or suppliers. 

SIGMADESIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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