Overview
Quality Manager Jobs in Randolph, NJ at ProActivate
Title: Quality Manager
Company: ProActivate
Location: Randolph, NJ
Our client in electrical equipment and electronics manufacturing is hiring a Quality Manager who is responsible for leading, governing, and continuously improving the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, regulatory, and customer-specific requirements.
This role translates quality strategy into disciplined execution across inspection, auditing, corrective action, supplier quality, and continuous improvement. Reporting to the Director of Engineering & Quality, the Quality Manager serves as a key member of site leadership— driving product conformity, reducing risk and cost of poor quality, strengthening customer confidence, and fostering a culture of accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement across the organization. This role is expected to strengthen Quality system maturity, reduce risk and cost of poor quality, and build a high-performing Quality organization that supports sustainable business growth.
LOCATION: Onsite role in Randolph, NJ
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Championing a strong quality culture by setting clear expectations, modeling desired behaviors, and holding teams accountable to standards and core values
- Define and deploy the site Quality strategy aligned with business objectives, customer expectations, delivery performance, and cost of poor-quality reduction. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by providing data-driven insights, risk assessments, and recommendations impacting operational and strategic decisions
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Quality organization (Engineers, Technicians, and Inspectors), establishing goals, training plans, performance expectations, and succession readiness
- Own, maintain, and continuously improve the Quality Management System (AS9100 / ISO 9001), ensuring effective governance of procedures, records, audits, training, and management reviews
- Ensure compliance with customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal requirements throughout product realization, manufacturing, and change management activities
- Establish and govern the corrective action and risk management systems, ensuring effective root cause analysis, sustainable prevention of recurrence, and proactive mitigation of quality, supplier, and process risks
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field; master’s degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive quality experience in a manufacturing or regulated quality environment, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing a strong and accountable Quality team
- Aerospace, defense, automotive or other regulated industry experience preferred
- Proven experience managing customer quality performance, including handling escapes, customer complaints, scorecards, corrective actions, and executive-level customer communications
- Strong experience with risk-based thinking, quality planning, and change management in manufacturing environments, including product and process changes
- Demonstrated experience influencing and driving quality culture across operations, engineering, supply chain, and leadership teams
- Experience managing quality cost metrics (COPQ), driving continuous improvement initiatives, and delivering measurable business impact
- Strong experience with supplier development, including audits, corrective actions, risk mitigation, and quality improvement partnerships
- Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-mix, low-volume and/or high-volume manufacturing environments. ? Hands-on experience balancing business pragmatism with strict quality compliance, making sound, data-driven decisions under pressure and walk the line between a win / win for both the customer and the business
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- $135,000 – $150,000, depending on experence
- Bonus eligibility of 20%
- Full Company benefits
