Quality Manager
Flex · South Carolina
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 2 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Flex (industrial) in South Carolina. To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Quality Manager located in Columbia, SC.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, ISO 9001
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How this role compares
Against 32 other live quality postings in South Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $90k–$120k, from 15 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 67%
- FMEA 48%
- SPC 42%
- PPAP 42%
- APQP 36%
- New product launch 36%
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Flex
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Quality Manager located in Columbia, SC.
Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Manager will develop, implement, and coordinate product assurance program to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products
requirements
and operational procedures within program.
- ✓Evaluates contents of reports from product assurance program department heads and confers with top management personnel preparatory to formulating fiscal budget for product assurance program.
- ✓Conducts management meetings with product assurance program department heads to establish, delineate and review program organizational policies, to coordinate functions and operations between departments, and to establish controls and procedures for attaining goals.
- ✓Interface with customers on technical/quality issues and improvement initiatives.
- ✓In charge of managing customer audits and regulatory/compliance agency audits.
- ✓Reviews technical problems and procedures of departments and recommends solutions to problems or changes in procedures.
- ✓Visits and confers with representatives of material and component vendors to obtain information related to supply quality, capacity of vendor to meet orders and vendor quality standards.
- ✓Confers with engineers about quality assurance of new products designed and manufactured products on market to rectify problems.
- ✓Reviews technical publications, articles, and abstracts to stay abreast of technical developments in industry
The experience we’re looking to add to our team
- ✓Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience and training.
- ✓8 years of quality experince
- ✓3+ years of management experience
- ✓Previous manufacturing experience
- ✓ISO9001/ Lean six sigma experience
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Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
What a typical day looks like
- •Researches, evaluates and presents information concerning factors such as business situations, production capabilities, manufacturing problems, economic trends and design and development of new products for consideration by other members of management team.
- •Suggests and debates alternative methods and procedures in solving problems and meeting changing market opportunities.
- •Contributes with other top management personnel in formulating and establishing company policies, operating procedures and goals.
- •Develops initial and subsequent modifications of product assurance program to delineate areas of control, personnel
What you'll receive for the great work you provide
- •Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
- •Life Insurance
- •Short-term and Long-term Disability
- •Matching 401(k) Contributions
- •Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- •Tuition Reimbursement