Quality Manager

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Quality Manager  -   BWX Technologies, Inc. -   Barberton, Ohio 

Welcome to BWXT

We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating a dynamic workplace that fosters growth and collaboration. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting your career, you'll find opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to nuclear innovation. We require a diverse range of skills to support our work in the markets that drive our business and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and life stages who are passionate about making a difference.

Position Overview:

As Quality Manager at a unionized facility supporting the Naval Propulsion Activity, you will lead Quality Assurance activities to ensure high-quality component production while maintaining a zero-incident health and safety culture. You will also communicate quality and safety expectations through presentations and uphold union contract obligations by maintaining cooperative labor-management relationships and managing union matters, including the Partnership Agreement with Local 900, while reporting directly to the General Manager.

Location:

On-site in Barberton, Ohio

Your Day to Day as the Quality Manager:

• Drive and promote a zero-incident health and safety culture.
• Support the strategy and implementation of local and corporate safety programs to achieve long-term goals.
• Manages all aspects of facility Quality Assurance. 
• Coordinates quality metric development and reporting for the facility. 
• Provides direction to Technical Managers regarding quality department objectives and goals.
• Provides leadership for all personnel in terms of the importance of quality standards and operating principles that ensure exceptional quality hardware and software are supplied to the customer. 
• Responsible for ensuring quality support is provided to facilitate operations. 
• Ensure examiner staff and appointments are in place to facilitate Dimensional, Assembly & Test, and Non-Destructive testing personnel are adequately trained and monitored by contract requirements and shop operations. 
• Develop and maintain working relationships with customer representatives to promote transparent program quality objectives and instill trust in the operations. 
• Facilitate development and maintenance of budgets/manpower levels for Quality Operations. 
• Oversee and approve contractual quoting activities for department. 
• Manage load board development and maintenance for Quality Assurance. 
• Manage development and approval of capital projects that support quality operations. 
• Facilitate development of procedures that support Corporate Quality Management System (QMS) goals and objectives. 
• Manage auditing activities to support Corporate QMS requirements, and local needs to ensure operational compliance with all contract and quality system mandates. 
• Coordinate supplier oversite with internal and external groups, including supplier audits and source inspection.
• Champion Material Review Board activities. 
• Manage corrective and preventative action activities to ensure the organization is working to continuously improve processes to reduce and/or eliminate issues that affect product or customer requirements. 
• Develop and deliver presentations to the workforce and customer representatives, including but not limited to, Deliberate Malpractice presentations, Naval Reactor Reviews, Expectation and Product Quality Issues presentations, Need-to-Know (workforce awareness) presentations, and additional Quality and Safety related topics as required. 
• Responsible for abiding by the union contract and interfaces with union representatives on grievance activities, arbitrations, and negotiations.  Responsible for maintaining the Partnership Agreement with Local 900. 
• Initiates and promotes mutually beneficial cooperative efforts between labor and management.
• Responsible for maintaining adequately trained workforce.

 Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science is preferred.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years related experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of precision manufacturing/quality inspection experience with a working knowledge of GD&T principles (ANSI Y 14.5).
• Previous managerial experience is required. 
• Skilled in public speaking and presentation development. 
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to train professional personnel. 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance.

Pay: $136,000 - $207,000

The base salary range for this position in Ohio (US-OH) at the start of employment is expected to be between $136,000 and $207,000 per year. However, the base salary offered is based on local job market factors, and may vary further depending on factors specific to the selected job candidate, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to these considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, such as an annual cash incentive in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided at such time the selected job candidate receives an offer of employment. If hired, the selected job candidate will be employed 'at-will,’ unless employed at a location and in a position subject to a collective bargaining agreement.  The company further reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment, compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and other market factors.

As a federal government contractor, BWX Technologies, Inc. and any subsidiaries, affiliates and related entities (“BWXT” or the “Company”) complies with all federal, state, and local laws and customer requirements regarding health and safety protocols.  As such, all BWXT new hires will be required to adhere to applicable Company health and safety requirements within the workplace as a condition of employment.

All candidates must be U.S. citizens. Selected applicants are required to successfully complete a pre-employment check and drug screening. In addition, the position may require the ability to obtain and maintain applicable federal eligibility requirements for access to classified/sensitive information or matter which involves an extensive criminal and financial background investigation, drug test, previous employment, and reference verifications.

BWXT is committed to the concept of Equal Employment Opportunity. We have established procedures to ensure that all personnel actions such as recruitment, compensation, career development, benefits, company-sponsored training and social recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, protected veteran or other protected status.

BWX Technologies, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (BWXT) is not responsible for and does not accept any liability for fees or other costs associated with resumes or candidates presented by recruiters or employment agencies, unless a binding, written recruitment agreement between BWXT and the recruiter or agency exists prior to the presentation of candidates or resumes to BWXT and includes the specific services, job openings, and fees to be paid (“Agreement”). BWXT may consider any candidate for whom a recruiter or agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire such candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency unless an Agreement is in place prior to presentation and such Agreement explicitly encompasses the job opening for which such fees or costs are sought. An email, verbal or other informal contact with any person within BWXT will not create a binding agreement. Agencies or recruiters without an Agreement are directed not to contact any hiring managers of BWXT with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Recruiters and agencies interested in partnering with BWXT may contact BWXT’s Talent Acquisition team at talent_acquisition@bwxt.com.