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ROLE: Quality Lead, B Shift (Nights)
REPORTS TO: Quality Supervisor
LOCATION: Brenham, TX Manufacturing Site
Shift: 8:00PM-6:30AM, Monday - Thursday
Job Summary/Purpose
The Quality Lead serves as the primary quality resource and shift leader for PPE's night shift manufacturing operations. This role provides day-to-day direction, technical guidance, and quality support to Quality Inspectors while ensuring compliance with customer requirements, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards, and internal quality procedures. The Quality Lead actively supports production, drives containment and resolution of quality issues, participates in continuous improvement initiatives, and serves as the key quality representative during off-shift operations. The position operates as a working lead and does not have direct supervisory responsibility for performance management, disciplinary action, compensation, or employment decisions.
Quality Leadership & Shift Support
Serve as the primary quality representative and escalation point during night shift operations.
Provide daily work direction and prioritize activities for Quality Inspectors to ensure support of production requirements and customer commitments.
Coordinate inspection coverage and support staffing plans to maintain effective quality support during scheduled absences and workload fluctuations.
Assist in onboarding, training, coaching, and development of Quality Inspectors to ensure consistent execution of quality standards and procedures.
Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, safety, and customer focus.
Quality Management & Compliance
Ensure compliance with customer requirements, internal procedures, and ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 standards.
Participate in daily management processes and communicate quality performance metrics, trends, concerns, and improvement opportunities.
Review scrap performance, yield losses, and Material Review Board (MRB) activity; initiate appropriate containment and escalation actions.
Ensure nonconforming materials and products are properly identified, segregated, documented, and dispositioned.
Exercise delegated authority to stop production, hold product, or prevent shipment when quality requirements are not met.
Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement
Lead and participate in root cause investigations related to internal defects, customer complaints, supplier quality issues, and process nonconformances.
Support corrective and preventive action processes to drive sustainable issue resolution.
Review and escalate quality control failures, audit findings, and adverse trends to appropriate leadership.
Identify and lead improvement initiatives focused on reducing scrap, improving yield, and enhancing process capability.
Utilize quality tools such as SPC, root cause analysis, trend analysis, and corrective action methodologies to improve performance.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Quality leadership to address quality concerns and drive improvements.
Support receiving inspection activities and ensure timely disposition of incoming materials required for production.
Escalate supplier quality issues to appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
Support qualification activities, product validation, tooling qualifications, and new product introduction (NPI/NPD) requirements.
Facilitate communication of significant quality concerns through formal alerts and escalation…