Quality Manager - Manufacturing
Description
Quality Manager – Manufacturing
Company: Spectra Logic
Location: Boulder, CO (Casual, Hybrid Environment)
Position Type: Full-Time, Manufacturing Operations & Quality Assurance
Compensation: $120,000 – $165,000 / year (Competitive based on knowledge, skills, and experience)
Position Overview
Spectra Logic is a dynamic company that truly values your unique skills. We provide a work environment that is both intellectually challenging and highly meaningful, all wrapped in a casual, supportive, and friendly team culture.
As our Quality Manager, you will be the ultimate champion of operational excellence, taking full ownership of our quality management system across the entire lifecycle of our complex electromechanical products. From early-stage, low-volume development through high-volume global scale-ups, you will embed best-practice foundations across our systems, workflows, and supplier partnerships. If you are an inspiring leader who loves driving a culture of proactive quality using robust, data-backed methodologies, we want to build the future with you.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Quality Ownership & Scaling
- Champion the QMS: Own and continuously elevate our ISO 9001 quality management system, cultivating a team culture that is audit-ready and driven by exceptional documentation standards.
- Scale the Infrastructure: Design and maintain a highly adaptable quality infrastructure capable of supporting products smoothly from prototype to high-rate manufacturing.
- Lead Root Cause Investigations: Mastermind structured 8D investigations for internal variations, customer feedback, and supplier escapes—steering cross-functional teams toward permanent, sustainable corrective actions.
- Drive Engineering Changes (EC): Lead the EC process as a critical bridge between Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, evaluating quality impacts to ensure everything is validated before hitting production.
- Implement Advanced Systems: Establish a world-class statistical process control (SPC/SQC) program to monitor and optimize critical manufacturing performance characteristics.
Collaborative Operations & Reporting
- NPI Partnership: Fuel growth during New Product Introductions (NPI) by actively contributing to Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA) reviews and robust process validations.
- Supplier Quality Synergy: Partner alongside our supply chain team to qualify partners, conduct insightful supplier audits, and collaboratively resolve supplier quality metrics.
- Actionable Metrics: Track and present key performance indicators (KPIs) to leadership—including first pass yield, cost of poor quality (COPQ), and customer satisfaction trends—to tell our data's success story.
Qualifications & Experience
- Proven Leadership: 10+ years of progressive quality engineering or quality management experience thriving within a complex, hardware-heavy manufacturing environment.
- System Scaling Expertise: Highly preferred experience scaling quality systems symmetrically alongside rapid production volume growth (from low-volume builds through high-rate manufacturing).
- Technical & Analytical Mastery: Strong data-driven problem-solving mindset with advanced Excel proficiency (SQL or database experience is a major plus). Able to easily interpret complex engineering drawings and GD&T.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Applied Science, or a closely related technical field.
- Certifications: ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification (or equivalent experience leading external/third-party audits) is highly preferred.
- Residency: Must reside within commuting distance of our Boulder, CO office. Please note: Relocation assistance is not available; local candidates will be prioritized.
WHY SPECTRA?
Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, Spectra is an entrepreneurial, private company with more than 40 years of proven success preserving, protecting and defending the world’s data. Spectra offers a challenging, flexible and creative work environment. Our culture is one that drives personal opportunity and advancement and rewards high performance while maintaining a high-quality work-life balance. We offer a casual, hybrid work environment with ample opportunity to learn and grow within the company. Work out on your own or with our trainer at one of the on-campus gyms; grab lunch or snacks onsite or challenge the CEO to a game of pinball; and grow your career with peers who are second to none.
SPECTRA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Spectra is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we never discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other characteristics protected by applicable law
***Spectra Logic is committed to the practice and policies of equal employment opportunities in the recruitment, employment and promotion of all associates without regard to age 40 and over, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, status as protected veteran, national origin, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.