Quality Manager

Summary

Responsible for Henderson site management of the Quality Assurance function including quality assurance, quality control, technology development and laboratory. Interacts and communicates with customers and suppliers including customer audits and 3rd party audits. Active member of TIMET Global quality group responsible for ensuring proactive defect hazard mitigation and continuous improvement to the quality management system and product quality.

Essential Functions

• Participate in the overall planning and oversight of the Henderson Quality Management System.
• Establishes laboratory standards for safety, on-time delivery, quality, cost control, and productivity.
• Manage quality assurance, quality control, and laboratory activities.
• Support the employee needs of the Quality Assurance organization.
• Serve as ISO, AS and quality management representative for Henderson.
• Lead the development and customer qualification of new technologies, products, and processes.
• Interface with QA/ R&D function of other TIMET units.
• Responsible for adhering to AS and ISO guidelines.
• Customer specification review and accuracy for order acknowledgement.
• Manage internal quality audit program and process.
• Manager Corrective and Preventative Action program and process.
• Manage customer and 3rd party audits and visits.
• Manage Outside Conversion Source audit program and process.
• Develop and work to budgets to achieve cost management goals and initiate or participate in cost reduction and/or profit improvement programs.
• Support engineering projects relating to capacity expansions, new technology and/or equipment-based process improvements.
• Manage capital expenditures.
• Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, changes, and policies. Encourage positive communication. Enforce all company policies, rules, and regulations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Manages subordinate supervisors and employees in the Quality Assurance group. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the Henderson quality team. Carries out managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Perform other duties as assigned.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability - not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.