Quality Lab Supervisor

Custom Mold & Design, a Velosity Company is searching for a Quality Lab Supervisor to support our manufacturing facility in Forest Lake, MN. This role is responsible for leading and prioritizing inspection workload and optimizing inspection systems, deliverables and methods to ensure continual improvement. Works with New Product teams to support First Article Inspections, Capability Studies, and related inspection method development deliverables. This is a working supervisor position that will support all QA Labs at the Forest Lake facility.

Direct Reports: Quality Tech, CMM Tech

Reports to: Operations Manager

The typical pay range for this role: $65,261 - $97,891

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography, internal equity and other relevant factors.

This is an on-site position.

Who is Custom Mold & Design?

Custom Mold & Design was founded in 1965 for the purpose of manufacturing plastic injection molds.

High quality product, superior service to the customer and a dedication to the well-being of each employee has always been the goal. Today we continue to operate under that same philosophy and ideology. We employ the very best, highly dedicated engineers and mold manufacturers with combined industry experience in excess of 1000 years!

At Custom Mold & Design, our culture & values are our competitive advantage. Engrained in everything we do are our values of Collaboration, Results-Driven, Continuous Improvement, Integrity, and Customer Satisfaction. Sound like you? Apply to join our team today.

What You'll Love about Custom Mold & Design:

• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, short term and long term disability, flex spending, 401k match, and MORE!
• Generous PTO offerings & 8 paid holidays annually
• Great opportunities for growth & advancement
• A family centric environment that hires and develops talent based on our values
• Casual Dress Code

Essential Duties:

• Work cooperatively with all employees
• Lead and develop the quality inspectors
• Maintain and organize in-process inspection documentation
• Develop and/or adapt inspection equipment to meet quality standards
• Drive continual improvement in regard to procedures, work flow, process streamline, compliance to standards, and to ensure product quality
• Facilitate New Product inspection method development through the various QA Labs, providing support for Gage R&R appraisals, First Article Inspections, and Capability Studies
• Investigate and determine cause of quality issues and assist production and other personnel with the MRB and Corrective Action processes
• Provide opportunities and training for personal and professional development of the quality inspector team
• Complete performance reviews and provide timely and constructive performance feedback to the QA Lab team
• Other tasks as assigned by supervisor

Qualifications:

• Preferred Associates or Bachelor's degree in Quality, or relevant experience
• Preferred 3 years of experience in quality, with a minimum of one year in plastic injection molding
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and project management skills; effective business correspondence and reporting; working knowledge of Microsoft Office and business operating systems; ability to lead, motivate, develop and manage employees
• Knowledge and understanding of contract manufacturing processes; knowledge of print reading, including GD&T; knowledge of inspection methods, measuring equipment, i.e. CMM's, Vision systems etc. and validation protocols.
• To be able to perform daily tasks safely; to work independently with limited supervision; To be able to solve practical problems and work effectively with customers, vendors and other departments; to manage multiple priorities; to manage and develop people.