Job Description
Job Role:
Quality control managers are responsible for ensuring manufactured products meet set standards of quality, reliability and performance.
Main 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.
-Conduct tests to verify the quality of raw materials and finished products.
-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.
Skills & Requirements:
Education and Training: r, 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 specifications.
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.