Quality Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establish quality procedures, standards, and specifications for a company
• Collaborate with an organization’s purchasing manager to ensure raw materials from external suppliers meet quality requirements
• Set and enforce standards for health and safety during work operations
• Carry out research to identify ways to reduce waste and maximize resources
• Ensure manufacturing processes are in compliance with both national and international standards of production
• Conduct surveys to identify customer requirements and ensure they are being met by established quality standards
• Proffer recommendations to company management on ways to improve on existing quality processes
• Collect, compile, and analyze relevant quality statistical data to obtain information regarding quality performance
• Supervise technicians, inspectors, and other company staff to ensure they perform their duties in line with established quality procedures
• Monitor product development processes to identify deviations from quality policies
• Conduct tests to verify the quality of raw materials and finished products
• Review existing process and product specification to identify the need for improvement or upgrade
• Approve compliant products and reject defective ones
• Prepare and present reports to update upper management on quality activities
• Maintain proper records of quality test, procedures and standards.

Requirements:

• Education and Training: To become a quality assurance manager, you require a Bachelor’s degree in business management or administration. Some quality manager jobs may require industry-specific disciplines such as engineering, polymer science technology, and applied sciences. Most quality managers advance in their careers from lower positions, thus have prior experience as a quality officer or technologist
• Analytical Skill: Quality control managers are able to conduct tests to ensure a product or material falls within established quality specification
• Interpersonal Skill: They are able to work with team of quality assurance personnel to make sure raw materials and final products meet set standards of quality
• Organizational Skill: They are adept at planning and developing standards, procedures, and best practices for ensuring product quality.