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This role builds the foundational processes, documentation, audit cadence, and performance metrics required for certification and sustained compliance. Partners with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure products and purchased components meet requirements and drives corrective actions and risk-based improvements across the business.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop, implement, and maintain an ISO 9001-compliant Quality Management System (QMS), including the quality manual/structure, process interactions, and required documented information.\nLead QMS gap assessments and create an implementation roadmap to achieve certification readiness; track actions, owners, and timelines.\nEstablish and manage document control: procedures, work instructions, forms, records retention, revision control, and change management.\nCreate and run the internal audit program (audit schedule, auditor training, checklists, reporting); ensure corrective actions are completed and verified for effectiveness.\nFacilitate Management Review: compile KPIs, audit results, customer/supplier issues, risks/opportunities, and improvement actions; document outputs and follow-up.\nSupport external audits and certification activities: coordinate with registrar, prepare evidence packages, host audits, and close findings.\nOwn Supplier Quality: supplier qualification/onboarding requirements, supplier performance metrics (PPM, escapes, on-time delivery), and supplier development plans.\nPlan and execute supplier audits and process assessments; drive corrective actions and verify implementation.\nLead nonconformance and corrective action processes (NCR/MRB, containment, 8D/A3, 5-Why/Fishbone) for supplier and internal issues, including effectiveness checks.\nDevelop and maintain incoming inspection plans, sampling plans, and acceptance criteria; support receiving inspection and disposition of nonconforming material.\nDrive data-based improvement using quality tools (SPC, MSA, capability, trend analysis); build dashboards for internal and supplier performance.\nSupport NPI and engineering changes by ensuring controls are defined (critical characteristics, inspection/control plans) and supplier readiness is achieved before launch.\nQualifications\nBS in Engineering-related discipline highly preferred\n\nDemonstrable experience in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) required\n\n5+ years of Quality Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, including hands-on Supplier Quality responsibility.\nDemonstrated experience developing and implementing an ISO 9001 (or similar) Quality Management System, ideally through certification (or leading major QMS buildout/gap-closure efforts).\nWorking knowledge of ISO 9001 requirements (risk-based thinking, documented information, internal audits, management review, corrective action, continual improvement).\nInternal Auditor training required; 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