Quality & Continuous Improvement Professional

The Quality & Continuous Improvement Professional provides site leadership for product and process quality, quality systems, customer and regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. The role develops and executes quality-risk and continuous-improvement strategies for extruded and cold-finished rod and bar products, while identifying cost savings, productivity gains, organic growth opportunities, and sustainable improvements in customer satisfaction and manufacturing performance. The position applies Total Quality Management, the Arconic Business System, Reliability Excellence, Lean/Six Sigma, and advanced quality planning methods to deliver measurable business results.

• Provide leadership and guidance on the Quality Management System (QMS) and technical aspects of products and manufacturing processes.
• Develop and execute quality policy and strategy to mitigate risk, meet customer specifications and government requirements, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce manufacturing cost.
• Lead Quality Assurance Systems by supporting and performing the following activities: internal audits, specification review and product configuration, process and product inspection, laboratory certification, calibration, manufacturing quality support, process engineering, and growth/application initiatives.
• Maintain and lead accreditation and compliance activities for AS9100/AS/EN/JISQ 9100, ISO/IEC 17025, Nadcap special processes, and applicable customer requirements.

• Organize and be on the fabrication area shopfloor supporting for quality-related questions and manufacturing issues.

  Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness across key bottleneck production centers and identify opportunities to reduce waste, internal scrap, and rework.
• Lead sustainable productivity and cost improvements using ABS, Reliability Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TQM, and structured problem-solving methods.
• Facilitate quality-focused kaizen events and deploy A3s, Hoshin plans, Ishikawa diagrams, visual management boards, daily management activities, OEE reviews, and other standard improvement practices.
• Improve process control through APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, PPAP, statistical process control, audits, and data-driven analysis.

• Identify and communicate significant OEE, productivity, quality, and cost-improvement opportunities to site and operations leadership.

  Customer, Product & Growth Support

• Partner with Commercial, Sales, Production, Engineering, Technology, IT, and Finance to implement effective and sustainable operational change.
• Provide responsive customer support for specification reviews, certification requests, claims, and technical inquiries.
• Determine capability and quality requirements for new and existing products, and establish manufacturing plans and procedures that meet customer and internal requirements.

• Support new-supplier qualification and the insourcing of downstream processes, including ultrasonic inspection and short-cutting saw operations.

  People & Organizational Leadership

• Coach supervisors and other leaders in the effective use of ABS and continuous-improvement methods within their departments.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional improvement teams in a matrixed manufacturing environment, building organizational alignment and ownership for change.