Quality / Safety Manager (onsite)

Position Overview :

Own plant-wide quality and safety performance. Build a zero-defect, zero-harm culture through standards, systems, and daily leadership. Lead with extreme ownership, drive KPI results, and partner cross-functionally to serve customers and protect employees.

Lead the Falkville facility's Quality and Safety functions for compression molded rubber products (bonded to metal / ceramic) and fabricated steel structures. Establish and improve systems that prevent defects, eliminate safety incidents, and ensure compliance. Serve as the primary voice of the customer and the guardian of safe work, translating strategy into daily discipline, coaching operators and leaders, and driving measurable results.

Key responsibilities :

• Own the Quality Management System (QMS) for Falkville; maintain document control, procedures, work instructions, forms, and records aligned with ISO 9001 principles.
• Define and maintain product standards for compression-molded rubber-to-metal / ceramic components and fabricated steel structures, including dimensional, visual, adhesion, cure, hardness, SG, and finish criteria.
• Lead incoming, in-process, and final inspection systems; set sampling plans, gage R&R programs, and operator self-inspection standards at presses, bonding cells, and fabrication / assembly.
• Establish and monitor quality KPIs : FPY, in-process scrap, external PPM, internal defects per million, COQ, rework hours, MRB backlog, on-time PPAP / FAI. Publish daily / weekly tiered dashboards.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective / preventive actions (8D, A3, 5-Why, Fishbone). Verify effectiveness through data and layered process audits.
• Manage nonconforming product, MRB, and quarantine processes; drive disposition speed and learning capture.
• Champion process capability and stability : SPC on critical-to-quality attributes; implement mistake-proofing at high-risk steps (e.g., surface prep, adhesive application, load / press cycle, cure time / temperature).
• Partner with Engineering / Maintenance on equipment capability, calibration, press temperature mapping, and preventive maintenance affecting quality outcomes.
• Coordinate with Compounding / Materials on rubber batch verification (SG, Mooney, cure behavior) and traceability through molding, bonding, and finishing.

Safety and EHS leadership

Culture, training, and leadership

Compliance and documentation

Continuous improvement

Qualifications

Key competencies

Working conditions