Director, Quality Assurance (On-Site)

As part of its mission, Alphapointe provides preferential hiring to people with vision impairments (legally blind). Alphapointe is a non-profit agency whose mission is to empower people with vision loss to achieve their goals and aspirations. Alphapointe offers a great working environment that's both challenging and satisfying as well as an array of benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, PTO, paid holidays and flexible spending options as well as a generous 401(k). Job Summary: The Director of Quality Assurance position is responsible for establishing a corporate quality assurance system and team that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the financial performance of Alphapointe. Champion continuous improvement efforts and defect reduction initiatives to establish an effective Quality Management System (QMS) at Alphapointe Kansas City and New York plants. Essential Functions: Initiates and implements quality improvement activities as appropriate (e.g. Kaizen, Six Sigma) to raise the performance of the companys product lines.Approaches processes with the customers purpose in mind.Educates and trains employees as to their impact in the quality management system.Develops, implements, manages and integrates a QMS for manufacturing plants.Serves as the primary quality control resource for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement.Manages quality control personnel on a day-to-day basis.Supports concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality assurance and the customer.Designs, implements and documents procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.Establishes and implements metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions.Performs root-cause analysis and other problem solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.Establishes collection and analysis systems of statistical date to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality. Analyze customers product specifications to establish efficient, cost-effective requirements for ease of manufacture and reproducibility. Develops quality planning methods for all product lines.Develops process certification standards and assist in process certification.Monitors vendor performance and establish criteria and rating system for critical vendors.Reviews customer purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.Interacts with customers to identify opportunities to improve quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.Oversees calibration and testing programs.Reports to management on quality issues, trends and losses. Reviews suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.Participates in internal and external quality audits.Interfaces with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality control and assure that effective corrective action is implemented. All other reasonable duties, as assigned. Additional Functions: Coordination of plant safety and health: sponsor training programs and initiatives that promote a safe and healthy work environment. Knowledge and Skill Requirements: Bachelors degree with a preferred major in Industrial Engineering, or other Engineering disciplines or a related field.Command of Statistical Process Control Methods and ISO environments is desirable.Two years work experience managing a quality assurance department in a manufacturing setting.Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Working Conditions: Lifting of product containers from assembly line to inspection point.Manufacturing environment.In-office position Alphapointe is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran