Job Description

Quality Manager

We're thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Quality Manager at our Fayetteville, TN location! As Quality Manager, you'll set the tone for successproviding vision, direction, and motivation to achieve and exceed our daily and monthly quality goals.

The day to day...

1. Set goals, monitor progress, and ensure accountability for teams and individual members
2. Accountable for managing resources to ensure key quality department metrics are met
3. Collaborate with internal and external customers' quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design
4. Make recommendations to modify customer part specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production
5. Provide engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques
6. Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources
7. Effectively communicate and reinforce company commitment to quality improvement efforts
8. Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes, review and analyze results and recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow up to verify effectiveness
9. Participate and coordinate with other department (i.e.: Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Tooling, Operations, etc.) product Quality planning activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new systems
10. Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action
11. Participate directly in internal and external customer PPM improvement plan
12. Responsible and accountable to the performance of the Quality team/group
13. Assist the Quality Director in the implementation of APQP processes to better new product development and product launches
14. Lead and mentor a team of Quality Engineers and or Technicians to drive supplier excellence
15. Maintain and enhance AriensCo Supplier Quality Manual and Supplier Ratings systems with the Quality Director and purchasing teams
16. Assist the purchasing team in the improvement of AriensCo company supplier standards and drive their implementation into the supply base
17. Lead and or conduct on site supplier evaluations both before supplier selection and after
18. Oversee the implement risk-based inspection strategies, leveraging internal process and supplier histories and data analytics to optimize efficiency
19. Assist the Quality Director in establishing APQP, Control Plans, DFMEA, PFMEA, SPC and other standard Quality Assurance tools to create a comprehensive AriensCo Quality Assurance System

The qualifications...

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations and/or technical discipline
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with certified quality management system (e.g. TS 16949, ISO)
• Certified Quality Engineer preferred
• Customer quality assurance experience
• Previous audit experience
• Technical knowledge of steel fabrication and assembly processes preferred
• Formal training and previous experience with part, sub-assembly, and final assembly audits preferred
• Background in GD&T preferred
• Understanding of manufacturing and/or lean processes is desired
• Ability to define and help resolve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

About AriensCo

Since 1933, the AriensCo name has been associated with reliable, durably crafted, high-performance outdoor power equipment. Our core values Be Honest, Be Fair, Respect the Individual, Keep our Commitments, and Encourage Intellectual Curiosity define our culture and inspire our team. We believe passionate people and astounded customers lead to unstoppable success. Our employees' quality of life is important to us. When people feel appreciated, respected and supported, careers thrive and ideas come to fruition. AriensCo employees are provided various great benefit opportunities which may include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance effective first day of employment
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plan
• 401(k) match and profit-sharing plans
• Life Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Short Term Disability
• Parental Leave
• Onsite Marketplace Care Partners at all locations
• Paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement and Apprenticeship Programs
• Safety shoes and safety prescription glasses reimbursement
• Employee Product Purchase Program
• 50% Daycare discount **Brillion Early Learning Center
• Onsite health clinic with Bellin Health **Brillion Campus Only
• Nearsite & Urgent Care Clinic Options **Brillion Campus Only

EEO Statement

The concept of diversity is important to us at AriensCo. That's why we've created a culture that is inclusive, accepting and understanding. We embrace diversity among our partners, suppliers and employees. We also strive for diversity in the quality of our ideas. Inclusion and acceptance means that, regardless of who you are, you will always be standing on our welcome mat.

AriensCo is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and steadfastly committed to hiring and selecting the most qualified candidate for any open position. It is the policy of AriensCo to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Providing our employees with an environment free of discrimination and harassment is something we take very seriously. Embracing diversity enables us to attract the best qualified talent, foster productive teamwork, and expand our business opportunities.

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