Quality Assurance Manager

Quality Assurance Manager Job Highlights

Company Profile

Union Tank Car Company (UTLX) is part of Marmon Holdings/Berkshire Hathaway. UTLX is the largest manufacturer, lessor, and maintainer of railcars. The company’s regulatory, engineering, and commercial expertise make UTLX the preferred source of railcars and services for many of its customers.

Job Profile

The company is searching for a Quality Assurance Manager who will be responsible for ensuring shop compliance with Union Tank Car Company’s Quality Assurance Program as well as regulatory, industry, and customer requirements.

The primary responsibility of the position is to ensure a quality product.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants require a High School Diploma or Equivalent

Work Experience

• Possess a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in tank car repair or manufacturing with knowledge of AAR and FRA regulations.
• Knowledge of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) inspection processes, including VT and PT, as well as AWS-CWI certification

Duties/Responsibilities

• Conducts internal audits of the facility to ensure compliance with company, customer, and regulatory requirements and serves as audit liaison and response coordinator for customers, AAR, and FRA audits.
• Develops and trains personnel on quality assurance, special processes, and work instruction procedures. Trains supervisors further in quality processes so they can continue to promote quality to improve plant operations.
• Ensures AAR M1003 quality assurance and AAR M1002 facility certification programs are current and meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures product quality at the assigned facility meets all customers, company, industry, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures the repair facility’s quality assurance program and repair practices meet all regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with quality process improvement tools such as 5Y, Fishbone, and PDCA is essential for the performance of root cause analysis and development of corrective/preventive actions as well as investigation of customer complaints and audit findings.
• Implements and manages processes to measure quality and implement corrective actions for continuous improvement based on data provided, procedures, and policies.
• Participates in and actively supports quality projects, activities, and Responsible Care initiatives to ensure that the Company achieves its goals.
• Possess considerable stamina to perform the essential functions over a large geographical plant area.
• Possess keen visual and audio acuity to recognize various shop danger warning signals to avoid injuries and promote a safe working environment.
• Strong knowledge of UTC procedures/standards, AAR/DOT regulations, customer procedures, and other technical areas such as tank car repair practices, NDT, inspection, welding, tank car parts/components, and coatings.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel outside of the normal place of work via car, train, and airplane as travel may be required.
• Willingness and ability to wear safety equipment such as, but not limited to safety shoes, safety glasses, hard hats, earplugs, and respirators.

Work Conditions

• Ability and availability to work considerable overtime hours that may often be required.
• Ability to bend, stoop, stretch, lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds to set up tables and to attach to tank cars.
• Ability to climb ladders to heights of approximately 14 feet high without fear of heights.
• Ability to enter tank cars via a manway opening for 18” to 20” in diameter and to tolerate confined spaces.

Benefits/Perks

• 401k matching and pension
• Annual safety shoe allowance
• Company-paid Employee and dependent life insurance
• Company-paid sickness and accident income
• Holiday pay
• Marmon employee discount program.
• Medical, dental, vision
• Rewards for anniversaries, success, and a job well done.
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Vacation

Employer’s Statement

UTLX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, gender identity, or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.