Quality Manager - Cable Manufacturing

Cable Manufacturing Quality Manager

Samtec, Inc, founded in 1976, is a leading global manufacturer of electronic interconnect solutions. The company generates $950 million in annual revenue and has a presence in 40+ international locations. Samtec is searching for a Cable Manufacturing Quality Manager responsible for ensuring quality and continuous improvement are integrated into the development and manufacturing of Samtec's cable products.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities :

• Implement robust quality systems in a highly complex manufacturing environment.
• Be accountable for the quality of Samtec's high-speed coaxial cable manufacturing and processes at our Oregon, Costa Rica, and other expansion cable manufacturing sites.
• Support manufacturing transfers of products / machines.
• Support resolution of downstream cable quality issues by managing and coordinating activities across Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, and Engineering organizations.
• 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.

The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities.

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About Samtec :

Founded in 1976, Samtec is a privately held, $800 million global manufacturer of a broad line of electronic interconnect solutions. What drives us at Samtec is the knowledge that our products enable engineers to create great things. When we innovate electronics capable of moving signals at faster speeds, smaller footprints, and higher densities, we know that we're providing designers access to the technologies that they need to do the jobs that impact all our lives. With 40 locations in 20 countries, Samtec's global presence enables its unmatched customer service.

SAMTEC, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating a diverse environment. All employment decisions at Samtec are based in business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, pregnancy or parental status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender and / or gender identity / expression, marital status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws.