Quality Manager

Lasko Products, an industry leader in providing and manufacturing home environment products for over 100 years, is looking to add Quality Assurance Manager to the team. This is a hands-on plant floor position located in Ft. Worth, TX. 

The Lasko Quality Manager is responsible for assuring product quality within a manufacturing plant by providing leadership to maintain and improve the quality systems as prescribed by the Division and the corporate standards.

 Duties will include management of change control, data collection schemes, test methods & equipment, standard instructions, audits and other routine quality systems areas. The Quality Manager also must direct the activities of quality staff and audit team members. Other duties include training plant personnel in quality processes; facilitating improvement teams and managing compliance to specifications.

  Duties and Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Sr. Director of Quality Manager and plant management to define and implement quality objectives including KPI’s that align with corporate initiatives. 
• Directly manage the daily activities of a small quality team
• Interpret Engineering specifications into Quality requirements on the plant floor
•  Manage supplier quality through incoming inspection and interaction with suppliers on quality issues, occasionally may require visits to suppliers.
• Lead and organize formal/informal problem solving in areas of scrap, process capability, warranty, etc. Provide training in quality systems and related areas such as APQP, BOS, Problem Solving, Statistical Process Control, Gage R&R and DOE.
• Work with the manufacturing department to implement continuous improvement initiatives for assembly and component manufacturing.
• Manage the testing and auditing of components and finished products.
•  Implement nonconforming material processes and lead Material Review Board (MRB) meetings.
• Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing early in the design stage in order to build quality into the product design and manufacturing process. Participate in failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) as required.
• Track quality issues and trends, report information to plant management and Corporate Quality.
• Provide risk assessment to Plant Manager, Business Unit and Er. Quality Manager on product design/quality issues and lead the necessary corrective actions through closure.
• Coordinate daily inspection and testing of components and products.
• Implement customer specific quality requirements in the manufacturing of components and products.
• Assist Lasko customer service to investigate customer quality issues.
• Interact with customers to solve field Quality issues.

 Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Related Field
• 5-7 Years of Experience in quality leadership for a manufacturing facility
• Experience with ISO 9001 Quality Management System
• Experience with PPAP, APQP, FMEA, and structured problems solving tools such as 8D or DMAIC.
• Practical knowledge of statistical tools and variance reduction
• Experience with Scrap reduction
•  Expertise in Quality Management Systems
•  Six Sigma Greenbelt or Blackbelt preferred
•  Strong ability to develop talent
• Change agent and able to lead by influence.