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Posted: May 21, 2009
Vice President of Quality Assurance

Join a leader in the manufacture of advanced composite components for the defense and commercial aerospace, satellite, and medical industries located in the Los Angeles area. This steadily growing company is currently expanding their operations and is looking to hire a new VP of Quality Assurance (VPQA) to be the quality champion within the company to represent the company’s world-class quality environment. To achieve the mission for this position, the VPQA will produce the following significant actions and results:

Maintain Quality System: Maintaining the company’s current successfully quality system; because the VPQA at this company doesn’t have a stamp of approval, they must empower the Quality organization to successfully run the quality system.

Company Expansion: Be part of the Executive Management Team planning for company growth. Responsible for expanding the QA department to accommodate the growth.

Customer Relations: Maintain the company’s current strong relationships with customers in order to continue their successful working relationships. This will include demonstrating the continued strength of the company’s quality system in order to maintain the customers’ delegation of source inspection to the company.

Reduction of Scrap and Escapes: Focus on understanding the sources of scrap and rework and implement changes in the manufacturing and inspection processes to address those areas.

Executive Management Team: The VPQA will be an integral part of the company’s executive management team reporting to the CEO. This team works together to establish a consensus on all large, strategic decisions for the company and leading monthly operational and metrics review meetings.

Organizational Structure: Proactively build and manage a high performing team, this will include:

Assessment of current personnel

Reorganization (if needed) of department to optimize efficiency and allow for company growth.

Execution of necessary ongoing and new-hire training for the department.

Lean Implementation: Be a part of the company’s leadership team responsible for the continued implementation of lean practices throughout the company.

Suppliers: Be responsible for upgrading the current manual supplier quality system to one that is tied to the MRP system and works on a quantitative and automatic basis. Once created, the VPQA must monitor the system to ensure that it is measuring and monitoring the effectiveness of the suppliers and make changes as necessary.

Certifications: Maintaining the company’s current AS9100, ISO 9000:2008, NADCAP AS 7118, FAA Part 145 Repair Station and FDA GMP certifications and registrations with a high level of system compliance.

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree required; relevant graduate degrees are a plus. Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

	*CANDIDATES MUST HAVE AEROSPACE QUALITY EXPERIENCE
	Ten to fifteen years of aerospace manufacturing industry experience, with five to eight years of overall quality management experience. Job progression should be from technical, design or process engineering into quality, and into a management role.
	Experience with composite materials and processes, and of highly engineered products (turbine engine components) for aerospace applications is highly desired.
	Must be knowledgeable and have direct experience with MRB, corrective action, quality auditing and the deployment of SPC concepts. Sound knowledge of NDT through transmission/pulse echo methodology and concepts.
	Certifications and additional professional training (six sigma, lean, kaizen, etc.) required.
	Experience with and oriented toward metrics in business analysis. Well versed in IPT concepts.
	Experience with having obtained an ISO 9000 and AS9100 certification is required. Experience with NADCAP and FAA Repair Station certifications is preferred.
	Excellent written and verbal skills are mandatory.

If you are a successfully Quality Assurance Executive ready to lead this company through their next phase of growth, we want to hear from you.

Contact: Kaitlyn Nash 949-474-0115 ext 204 kaitlyn@bobsearch.com

Posted: May 9, 2009
SR Quality Inspector / Supervisor

Position: SR Quality Inspector / Supervisor

Location: Ontario / California

Salary: 40K to 52K Annually

Duties:

	Incoming inspection, 2D drawings or Cad data inspection
	In-process inspection / First article inspection per customer supplied drawings or Cad Data
	Assist in writing Policies and Procedures
	Return goods / CAR / SCAR’s / review and documentation
	ASQ Certified / CMM (FARO) experience
	Good Leadership, and problem solving skills.

Respond to: Quality Manager / Chuck Crowell at: chuckc@rayplastics.com

Posted: March 16, 2009
Quality (validation) Engineer, Extrumed, LLC

Position: Quality (validation) Engineer

Position Description:

This position will develop and validate production control processes, provide engineering support in the development and maintenance of the Company’s quality systems, and provide product engineering support.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, write, and assist with the implementation of Device Master Record production quality controls
• Write validation and verification plans, develop validation protocols, assist with and as needed execute IQ/OQ/PQ experiments,
and approve production processes for release
• Coordinate the identification, assignment, monitoring, and completion of process and/or product
improvement projects
• Work with the Operations and Sales functions to coordinate pilot production of new products
• Coordinate the reporting, analysis, and resolution of material nonconformance incidences
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Resolve Corrective Action Reports (CARs)
• Coordinate activities of technicians as needed
• Complete projects in a manner consistent with corporate objectives
• Provide support in the rapid resolution of product complaints and/or safety issues
• As needed, develop quality assurance specifications, test methods, sampling plans and related written procedures
• As needed, develop and conduct training programs regarding company quality systems
• As needed, provide quality assurance appraisal and approval or disapproval of suppliers
• As needed, conduct quality process and product audits and develop responsive corrective action plans
• As needed, approve and release product
• As directed, provide specific support for operational quality management system programs

Success Factors for this Position:

– Experience and familiarity with the tools of root cause analysis and defect analysis, including Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
– Ability to use statistical methods and tools
– Ability to perform cost estimating, based on labor, material and variable overhead inputs

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelors Degree in an engineering or technical discipline with 2 years minimum experience in manufacturing, engineering,
or quality (Alternatively, a non-technical degree with 5 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering or quality assurance experience)
+ Experience with developing and implementing process controls, corrective & preventive action, and product quality improvement
+ Solid understanding of the fundamentals of statistics
+ Project planning and management skills
+ Strong written and verbal communication skills
+ Proficiency with Microsoft Excel spreadsheet development and analysis
+ Effective problem solving, and root-cause analytical skills
+ Able to lead and influence others to drive change
+ Familiarity with SPC and SQC

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Experience with verification and validation activities
+ Proficiency with statistical analysis packages (example: Minitab, JMP)
+ Ability to conduct process analysis, and capability assessments
+ Experience with SPC and SQC
+ Experience with design of experiments
+ Experience in plastics industry or medical device industry
+ Experience with quality management systems
+ Experience with Lean, or Six Sigma manufacturing principles

Pay Range: Pay range: $54,000 - $61,000

Location: Placentia, CA present through second half of 2009, when plant consolidates with Temecula, CA plant into south Corona facility

Hours: First shift, flexible on the exact hours

Scott Dudevoir
Director, Quality
Extrumed, LLC
1941 Petra Lane
Placentia, CA 92870-6749
sdudevoir@extrumed.com
www.extrumed.com
(714) 993-4100
(951) 296-0233 x1233

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