Quality Control Systems Manager
Oregon City, Oregon
Full-Time | On-Site
Department: Quality / Manufacturing
About the Role
Optimize Technologies is seeking a Quality Control Systems Manager to lead, maintain, and continuously improve the quality systems that support our manufacturing operations.
This is a hands-on role that works closely with manufacturing, engineering, inspection, laboratory personnel, suppliers, and management. The Quality Control Systems Manager is responsible for ensuring that raw materials, purchased components, manufacturing processes, inspection methods, and finished products meet established specifications, customer requirements, and applicable quality standards.
The right candidate will be comfortable working at both the system and production levels: maintaining effective quality procedures and documentation while also investigating problems, reviewing data, supporting manufacturing, and helping prevent recurring quality issues.
Our goal is a quality system that is rigorous, practical, and supports both product quality and efficient manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve quality control and quality assurance policies, procedures, and systems.
- Monitor quality and inspection activities throughout manufacturing, including incoming materials, purchased components, in-process product, and finished goods.
- Review inspection results, test data, production information, and quality trends to identify product or process issues.
- Lead and participate in investigations involving nonconforming products or processes, including root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.
- Establish appropriate inspection, sampling, testing, acceptance, and documentation requirements.
- Maintain quality documentation, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, specifications, quality records, and other controlled documents.
- Work closely with manufacturing and engineering to identify critical process controls and improve product quality, process capability, consistency, and efficiency.
- Support the development and review of product specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate product testing and inspection activities and evaluate inspection methods, measurement equipment, and quality-control techniques.
- Support supplier and contractor quality activities, including communicating quality requirements and resolving deficiencies.
- Provide training and guidance regarding inspection methods, quality procedures, documentation, and quality standards.
- Provide leadership and direction to quality inspectors, technicians, laboratory personnel, and others involved in quality activities.
- Communicate quality requirements and concerns clearly to manufacturing personnel, management, suppliers, customers, and other applicable parties.
The Quality Control Systems Manager has the authority to stop or place production on hold when significant product quality or compliance concerns are identified.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone with practical manufacturing quality experience who can evaluate problems carefully, make sound decisions, and follow issues through resolution.
- Experience in manufacturing quality control, quality assurance, or quality systems.
- Direct experience maintaining, managing, or coordinating a quality system in a manufacturing environment.
- Practical experience with nonconformance management, root cause analysis, corrective action, and process improvement.
- Experience interpreting product specifications, engineering drawings, inspection requirements, and technical documentation.
- Working knowledge of inspection, testing, measurement, and quality-control methods.
- Ability to analyze technical, inspection, and manufacturing data and identify meaningful trends.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across manufacturing, engineering, management, suppliers, and customers.
- Strong judgment, organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
Education and Preferred Experience
A bachelor's degree in quality, engineering, chemistry, manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related technical field is preferred. Significant relevant experience in manufacturing, quality control, or quality assurance may be considered in place of a degree.
- Previous supervisory or quality-system leadership experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience with statistical analysis, quality-management systems, and manufacturing quality tools is beneficial.
- Experience in precision manufacturing, engineered components, scientific instrumentation, laboratory products, or another technically demanding manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Familiarity with chromatography, HPLC, UHPLC, LC/MS, or analytical instrumentation is beneficial but not required.
Work Environment
This is a full-time, on-site position at Optimize Technologies in Oregon City, Oregon.
The position includes regular work in both office and manufacturing/laboratory environments and requires regular interaction with production employees, technical personnel, management, suppliers, and customers.
Appropriate personal protective equipment may be required when working in designated manufacturing or laboratory areas. This role requires a high degree of accuracy and responsibility because quality decisions can directly affect production, customer requirements, product acceptance, and company results.
Apply
Email your resume to careers@optimizetech.com.