Position Description for Quality Manager, QSC, FRE
Company: Quality Steel Corporation
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Quality, QSC
Location: Fremont, OH
Company Overview:
Quality Steel Corporation is a family-owned manufacturing company founded in 1957 by Lowry Tims. For nearly seven decades, the company has been committed to building high-quality products while caring for employees, serving customers, and supporting the communities where we operate. Quality Steel manufactures propane storage tanks for residential and commercial use, along with anhydrous and dispenser tanks that serve customers across the propane industry. Quality is not just in our name, it is a foundational principle reflected in our products, our processes, and our people.
We continuously invest in our people and operations to provide reliable products and exceptional value to our customers. As an employee-owned company through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), our employees share in the success of the business. Combined with competitive benefits, including a 401(k) match, we are committed to creating a supportive workplace where employees can build long-term careers and contribute to the continued strength of our company.
Position Summary:
The Quality Manager, QSC, Fremont is responsible for leading and enhancing the site’s quality systems and processes, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and all applicable industry (ASME), regulatory, and government standards. This role oversees process controls and equipment to drive high levels of performance and operational excellence. The Quality Manager provides leadership to the Quality Assurance Coordinator and Quality Assurance Specialist, while partnering closely with operations to identify and implement improvements that enhance safety, quality, productivity, and on-time delivery. As a key member of both the QSC Fremont plant leadership team and the broader QSC quality organization, this role plays a critical part in fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement across the site.
Key Responsibilities:
· Develop, execute and monitor quality programs and activities, ensuring manufacturing process controls meet regulatory compliance and provide high quality and reliability to products and customer requirements.
· Utilize quality systems and tools to conduct equipment maintenance, calibration, in-process product disposition and containment, product identification, quality documentation and control systems to maintain compliance.
· Engage in nonconformance investigations, material review decisions and corrective/preventive action. Follow-up to be sure corrective actions are properly documented and verified, and corrective measures are in place to meet reliability standards and requirements.
· Highlight and communicate awareness of major quality concerns. Coach operations team on significant quality issues and prevention measures. Collaborate with continuous improvement team to address internal and customer quality issues.
· Ensure quality and product audits and reporting are completed for the site, including reporting of nonconformance and severity of risk.
- Develop strategies and systems to improve supplier performance and productivity. Engage in supplier selection process and maintain certification programs. Ensure suppliers conform to ASME requirements.
· Lead by example, demonstrating LT Corp’s “How we Lead” (servant leader, devoted, resilient, growth mindset, team player, trustworthy, fun-loving) leadership traits and reinforcing LT Corp’s purpose, core beliefs, and values to all team members.
· Lead and direct the Quality Assurance Coordinators, managing performance by setting goals and coaching and developing in “How we Lead” to achieve results and reinforce the positive culture.
- Collect and analyze internal and customer data from reporting tools to establish quality performance trends, define actions to address these and drive actions to closure.
- Develop and manage the budget and budget execution.
- Benchmark best practices and evaluate and implement continuous improvement for operational continuity and improved safety, quality, and productivity metrics.
Experience:
Minimum of 5 years of experience in implementing and improving quality systems in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with Quality Management Systems preferred.
- Experience with continuous improvement and lean manufacturing preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
· Ability to work through ambiguous situations and provide clear and concise solutions
· Strong analytical, decision making
· Ability to lead at the strategic and tactical levels
· High self-awareness and emotional intelligence
· Strong written and oral communication skills
· Servant Leader, with the ability to lead through influence
· Aligned with highest integrity and family values
Education and Certification Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering or a related field preferred, equivalent work experience will be considered.
Travel
· Approximately 10% travel to company, customer or vendor sites.
Quality Steel is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age,
status as a protected veteran, or disability.
Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Military leave
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
