Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Quality Assurance Teams are responsible for all or part of an organization's Quality Management System, including conformance and continuous improvement initiatives. They work on systemic evaluation of products, services, facilities, manufacturing or business processes, to ensure that standards of quality are being met. Develop and implement quality plans, programs and procedures using quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses. They reviews, analyze and report on quality discrepancies, investigate problems and executes quality audits, and develops disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies. The team works closely with manufacturing, engineering, customers, or suppliers and subcontractors to ensure requirements are met.

The Aerospace, Defense & Marine (AD&M) Business Unit is seeking a self-motivated “hands on” energetic Quality Assurance Manager for our Rochester Cable operation located in Culpeper, Va. Rochester Cable serves oceanographic exploration and military sectors as well as land and offshore oil exploration activities with engineered wire and electrical/optical cable.

Our Quality Assurance team ensures that systems are in place to meet or exceed customer expectations and industry standards, as well as support our internal customers finding solutions to meet our safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

The Quality Manager is our ISO representative and ensures the QMS supports local, AD&M and TE goals/objectives. The Quality Manager is responsible for the Internal Audit Team as well, ensuring audit requirements are met, and the QMS meets the intent of the ISO 9001 standard.

An ideal candidate will drive root cause analysis and corrective action on inputs from customer complaints, internal product nonconformances, raw material rejects and QMS audits to drive process performance improvements.

What your background should look like:

DOMESTIC RELOCATION IS PROVIDED FOR THIS ROLE!!!

This position requires access to information which is subject to stringent controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, person granted asylee status in the U.S., or person admitted into the U.S. as a refugee.

• B.S. with 5 or more years of experience in manufacturing environments preferred.
  
• Good working knowledge of ISO and Quality Management Systems.
  
• Six Sigma Green/Black belt, Lean Manufacturing knowledge a plus
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills essential.
  
• Ability to travel to customers and suppliers to resolve quality issues. Potentially ~20% travel required
  
• Working knowledge of different problem-solving tools: FMEA, 8D, 5Y, etc.
  
• Demonstrated ability to identify root cause, drive improvement actions and resolve problems.
  
• Ability to lead a team

Competencies