Pioneercircuits
Quality Assurance Manager - PCB Manufacturing
Santa Ana, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
PCB DesignCAMLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- The Quality Assurance Manager leads Pioneer Circuits' Quality Assurance function, ensuring products, processes, and quality systems consistently meet customer, regulatory, and industry requirements.
- This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the Quality Assurance team while partnering with Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, and customers to drive continuous improvement, strengthen the Quality Management System, and improve overall business performance.
- As the leader of the Quality Assurance department, this position is responsible for developing team capabilities, ensuring audit readiness, driving corrective and preventive actions, improving quality metrics, and fostering a culture of quality throughout the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the Quality Assurance team by establishing clear priorities, providing performance feedback, and building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee daily Quality Assurance operations, ensuring customer requirements, production support activities, inspections, and quality system responsibilities are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Provide guidance and decision-making support for complex or high-risk customer requirements.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, CAM, and Operations to improve manufacturing quality, reduce scrap and rework, improve first-pass yield, and support on-time delivery objectives.
- Lead customer, registrar, and regulatory audits, including AS9100, DLA, customer audits, and participation in NADCAP audits, ensuring ongoing audit readiness and timely resolution of findings.
- Drive the company's corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process by ensuring effective root cause analysis, implementation of corrective actions, and verification of long-term effectiveness.
- Lead Material Review Board (MRB), Technical Review Board (TRB), nonconforming material disposition, and quality decision-making to ensure consistent application of quality standards.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve quality policies, procedures, work instructions, and standard operating procedures that strengthen operational performance.
- Partner with Engineering and Operations to evaluate new processes, equipment, technologies, and process improvements that enhance manufacturing capability and product quality.
- Support new customer qualifications, product introductions, and quality planning activities to ensure customer expectations are successfully implemented throughout production.
Skills
- Excellent communication and interpe
Company info
- Our customers include some of the largest aerospace and defense companies like RTX, Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, NASA, JPL, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
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