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Job Title: Product Quality Manager

Department: Quality

Reports To: Senior Manager Quality and Systems

Summary

The Product Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring that all products meet or exceed the company's quality and reliability expectations through the management of daily inspection activities and the oversight of the Quality Management System. This role blends handson inspection leadership with broader quality system ownership. The Product Quality Manager leads the inspection team, manages incoming/inprocess/final inspections, drives nonconformance investigations, supports continuous improvement, and ensures compliance with IPC, ISO, and milspec standards.

The role serves as the primary quality liaison to Operations, Engineering, and suppliers, ensuring realtime alignment between production priorities, inspection readiness, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop QA Specialists and Inspectors; manage daily workflow and priorities.
• Oversee and participate in incoming, inprocess, FAI, and final inspections for electromechanical assemblies.
• Ensure proper use of inspection plans, work orders, specifications, IPC standards, and engineering documentation.
• Validate accuracy of inspection results and ensure timely documentation.
• Lead the maintenance and improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS), including procedures, document control, and audit readiness.
• Lead internal audits; support compliance with ISO9001, IPCA610/620, and applicable mil
• Manage nonconformances, lead rootcause investigations, and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Lead crossfunctional quality improvement efforts focused on defect reduction, process capability, and inspection effectiveness.
• Present quality metrics, inspection performance data, and systemic improvement plans to leadership.
• Identify and implement process improvements, inspection method upgrades, and workflow efficiencies.
• May require some overtime based on production needs.
• Must love guns.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages the day-to-day activities of the Quality team.
• Direct oversight of QA Specialists and Inspectors.
• Responsible for scheduling, tasking, training, and performance development.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience in electromechanical inspection, leadership, or related roles.
• Strong working knowledge of IPCA610/620, ISO9001, and milspec quality practices.
• Experience managing QMS activities including document control, audits, and corrective actions.
• Ability to use and teach precision measurement tools and calibration requirements.
• Strong analytical skills, datadriven approach, and experience in rootcause and corrective action methodology.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and ERP/MRP systems.

EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS

• This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with ISO and mil-spec standards.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Strong English language skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, standards, customer requirements, and audit criteria.
• Ability to present information clearly to all levels from executive leadership to hourly crossfunctional teams.

REASONING ABILITY

• Strong problemsolving skills, ability to interpret data, define issues, and implement solutions.
• Understanding of basic statistics, sampling theory, and measurement analysis preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• None

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook, Visio, PDM, Syspro, UniPoint, Solid Edge Viewer, Solid Works Viewer.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position requires the incumbent to stand, walk, sit, talk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and slight risk of electrostatic shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in a manufacturing environment.

Employment with B.E. Meyers & Co. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, Veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.