Quality Assurance Manager

**Together, We’ll Keep the World Moving Forward**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintains company Quality Program (ISO 9001:2015) to achieve continuous improvement, through team-based initiatives:

- Maintains entity quality system which, at minimum, meets all the requirements of ISO 9001:2015.
- Conducts on-going evaluation of the quality system to ensure continual quality improvement and reports results and recommendations to management.
- Coordinates and assists other managers to identify business risks and areas requiring improvement.
- Develops action plans and objectives to improve processes to reduce risk.
- Increases productivity while improving quality and reducing the possibility of errors:

- Ensures all employees understand company quality objectives and encourages input, giving employees ownership in the processes that directly affect them.
- Provides insightful and accurate analysis of non-conformances and where appropriate initiates corrective action to prevent reoccurrence.
- Identifies areas of risk and opportunities for process improvements and initiates preventive actions in coordination with the department manager.
- Audits effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions and initiates corrections to reach improvement objectives.
- Ensures all measuring tools are calibrated and parts are inspected as close to the source of work as possible to reduce the possibility and cost of errors.
- Provides source of information for customer quality requirements and correlates necessary documentation.
- Maintains and supports in-process inspection system.
- Maintains a dedicated, focused and capable staff to meet current and future needs:

- Actively manage and motivate direct reports, providing both positive and constructive performance management feedback.
- Communicates effectively with clear direction, standards, and policies to all staff.
- Coach and empower supervisors to implement and enforce direction, standards, and policies.
- Cross trains staff to give the area flexibility and depth.
- Creates a positive, proactive, results oriented, mutually supportive, fun working environment.
- Evaluates training opportunities to determine its relevance, educational opportunities as to their benefit to Standard Machine.
- Recommends attendance of Standard personnel to conferences and seminars to maximize the employees’ personal growth and growth of Standard Machine as it relates to ISO requirements.

**Qualifications**
- Education_
- Journeyman trades certification or bachelor’s degree with applicable major
- Applicable ISO internal audit certificate will be considered an asset
- Competencies_
- Training in quality assurance and control, including working in an IS0:2015 environment
- Experience with gears, gear boxes, bearings, and mining replacement parts
- Proven accuracy with and ability to calibrate a variety of measurement tools such as micrometers and calipers
- Ability to identify and assess quality risks that jeopardize company commitments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including conflict resolution
- Proven ability to lead projects and teams, demonstrating strong organization and communication skills
- Progress department tasks efficiently, including the use of LEAN principles
- Detailed understanding of manufacturing processes
- Adaptive problem-solving techniques including developing new solutions through analytical, interpretative, evaluative, creative, and innovative thinking (5 Why’s, 8D, and Fishbone)

**Work that Matters**

Working at Timken means working with dozens of industries on projects that have the potential to change the world. Everywhere you look, we’re there, improving reliability, raising the bar for efficiency, and driving sustainability. That’s been our focus for more than a century. And every day we seek out new opportunities to help our partners reach higher levels of achievement. All our work is held to the highest quality standards, and our facility maintains all of the following certifications and affiliations: API, ISO 9001-2015, AGMA, and CWB.

**Put your Career in GEAR today**

Working at Standard Machine, a Timken Brand, opens the door for opportunity, benefits, and security.

**Compensation**

We offer a competitive salary to secure the brightest talent for our organization. We also have a short-term incentive plan that pays based on individual and company performance.

**Benefits**

Our comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, AD&D, employee assistance program, on-site gym, RRSP/DPSP with company matching, vehicle discount programs, and MORE.

**Continuing Education**
- All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences, and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orien