at Hazelett Strip-Casting Corp in Colchester, Vermont, United States Job Description

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Quality Management System (QMS) Systems Lead is responsible for leading, maintaining, and continuously improving Hazelett's Quality Management System to ensure compliance with

ISO 9001

2015 and applicable customer, regulatory, and internal requirements. This role serves as the organizational owner of the QMS, working cross-functionally with all departments to promote process discipline, risk-based thinking, and continual improvement. The QMS Systems Lead has no direct reports but exercises significant influence across the organization.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

Quality Management System Leadership

• Lead and maintain the company's

ISO 9001

2015 compliant Quality Management System, ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational needs.

• Interpret and apply

ISO 9001

2015 requirements across the organization, ensuring consistent understanding and implementation.

• Coordinate and support external certification, surveillance, and recertification audits, serving as the primary point of contact with registrars.
• Ensure documented information is established, implemented, maintained, and controlled in accordance with ISO requirements.
• Act as the management representative for the QMS, ensuring system integrity and effectiveness.
• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate management review activities, including preparation of inputs, documentation of outputs, and follow up on assigned actions. Internal Quality Management
• Develop process control plans including statistical requirements.
• Develop gauges and fixtures needed for proper inspection.
• Define and execute first article inspections. Internal Auditing
• Develop and maintain the internal audit program, including audit schedules, auditor qualification, and audit execution.
• Plan, conduct, and/or coordinate internal audits to verify QMS conformity and effectiveness.
• Ensure timely documentation of audit results and follow-up on audit findings. Corrective Action and Risk Management
• Lead the corrective and preventive action (CA) process, ensuring effective root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Promote and support risk-based thinking through identification, evaluation, and mitigation of process and system risks.
• Monitor the effectiveness of corrective actions and ensure closure. Supplier Quality Management
• Maintain and oversee the supplier quality program in alignment with

ISO 9001

2015 requirements.

• Establish and maintain criteria for supplier selection, evaluation, reevaluation, and monitoring.
• Support supplier qualification activities, including quality system assessments and risk evaluations as required.
• Review and analyze supplier performance metrics, including quality, delivery, and responsiveness, and work with suppliers to address deficiencies.
• Coordinate and support supplier corrective actions, ensuring effective root cause analysis and verification of corrective action effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Purchasing, Engineering, and Operations to ensure supplier quality requirements are defined, communicated, and maintained. Incoming Inspection
• Oversee the incoming inspection process for purchased materials and components. Establish inspection criteria, train inspection personnel, and collaborate with engineering and procurement to address supplier quality issues. Training and Awareness
• Ensure QMS-related training, awareness, and competency requirements are defined and met.
• Provide guidance and training to employees on QMS requirements, procedures, and best practices. Metrics and Reporting
• Develop, monitor, and report QMS performance metrics, including audit results, nonconformities, corrective actions, supplier performance, and key process indicators.
• Analyze trends and present data-driven insights to leadership to support decision-making.

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