FLSA STATUS: Salary/Exempt
DEPARTMENT: Quality
SUPERVISOR: Quality Manager
DIRECT REPORTS: No
Position Summary
Power Connector, LLC is entering a new and exciting phase of growth and opportunity filled with innovative and progressive thinking and strategizing. We have recently been acquired by Amphenol at the end of 2025, with this historic transition comes the need to enhance and grow the company through restructuring, reorganization, modernization, optimization, and business development. We, at Power Connector, are responsible for revolutionizing the company and securing and expanding its global connection.
Power Connector’s Quality Engineering Supervisor is critical in contributing to the fundamental changes that are transforming Power Connector. This position is instrumental in enhancing and strengthening our internal Quality Management System by developing and optimizing our internal and external quality processes, procedures, and documentation. This position’s primary focus is to assist, contribute, and execute on the team’s strategic plans for Quality Management System stability and improvement.
Power Connector’s Quality Engineering Supervisor is a dynamic, adaptable, open-minded problem solver with analytical and communication skills suited for individual and team contribution. This position is an integral part in sustaining and improving our quality system for expansion within our current industry and penetration into new industries. This position enjoys the inherent challenges of improving and stabilizing quality management systems and manufacturing processes in a diverse, dynamic, and growing organization. This position has a strong influence on the fundamental principles of the deployed quality management system and leads many initiatives related to the enhancement of internal and external manufacturing and quality processes.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in engineering or related field
Experience:
- 5-7 years of experience in quality, manufacturing, or related field
Knowledge:
- Strong knowledge of ISO standards (AS9100 preferred)
- Proficient in using inspection equipment, such as calipers and micrometers
- Ability to read drawings, specifications, acceptance test procedures, etc.
- Proficient in MS Office
Skills:
- Good oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Results-oriented with strong analytical skills
- Ability to work well independently and part of a team
- Ability to motivate team members in a creative and effective manner
- Ability to work effectively under stressful and dynamic environments
Job Responsibilities
- Interface with quality personnel at customer and supplier levels
- Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required
- Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers, when applicable
- Perform visual inspections of finished products and grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications when applicable
- Support First Article Inspection (FAI) activities in accordance with AS9102 requirements.
- Conduct routine and non-routine analyses of in-process materials, raw materials, conditioning samples, finished goods, or stability samples
- Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded
- Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications
- Mark items with details such as grade or acceptance-rejection status
- Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for release
- Maintain all Quality Control documentation
- Assist in all Quality Control activities as directed
- Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems
- Complete documentation needed to support testing procedures, including data record forms, equipment logbooks, or inventory forms
- Calibrate, validate, or maintain quality control equipment
- Develop and conduct computational analysis for internal and external validation testing as necessary
- Initiate and maintain communication with suppliers for ongoing issues. Create and submit Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) as needed and assess SCAR response.
- Assess discrepant material, create Discrepant Material Request, and notify Material Review Board for disposition
- Identify root causes and applicable corrective actions related to quality issues
- Execute quality control protocols and provide feedback to management for potential improvements
- Develop documentation needed to support testing procedures, including data record forms, equipment logbooks, or inventory forms for New Product Introduction
- Conduct & record internal trainings to ensure compliance to quality procedures
- Provide support to other engineering areas of operation
- Any additional tasks necessary to execute on the team’s strategy for operational sustainability, improvement, and optimization
Other responsibilities, initiatives and ad-hoc projects as required.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for prolonged periods of time, working at a computer, stand, bend, twist, and lift up to 25 lbs. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
