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Job Description:

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.

Quality/Metallurgical Engineering Manager

Located in Earth City, MO

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of rugged, reliable firearms for the commercial sporting market. With products made in America, Ruger offers consumers almost 800 variations of more than 40 product lines. For 75 years, Ruger has been a model of corporate and community responsibility. Our motto, "Arms Makers for Responsible Citizens®," echoes our commitment to these principles as we work hard to deliver quality and innovative firearms. Ruger has remained a global leader in offering unparalleled service, innovative technology, and providing peace of mind to our users every step.

Summary:

An active hands-on manager who will develop, establish and continually improve manufacturing systems and processes through coaching and mentoring all manufacturing leaders, engineers, purchasing and team members. Keeping an associate-focused leadership mentality centered around a kaizen improvement culture, utilizing lean thinking to drive process stability and robustness delivering 100% customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Strategy: Working with all Ruger Gun divisions establish short and long term quality goals for Manufacturing that include all 4 pillars of quality: Supplier, Process, Product and Customer

• Working with all Ruger Gun divisions Create and establish a balanced scorecard tracking COPQ through the ongoing daily, monthly, quarterly and annual measures of the quality system as it relates to:
  • Customer Returns
  • Scrap – Total System and by Process
  • Change (process and product)
  • Deviations
• Working with all Ruger Gun divisions to Develop a Quality System which creates a measured environment allowing manufacturing engineers to create processes highly specific to content, sequence, timing and outcome. The system further establishes robust plans to maintain process control, ongoing quality, while minimizing waste.
  • Collaborate with Lead Engineers (Mfg. and Product) to develop, deploy and maintain product and internal quality standards.
    • Maintaining strength, porosity and mold flow characteristics
    • Debind/Sintering/HIP/Heat Treat process properties
  • Coach, mentor and ensure all engineers are thoroughly conducting proper new part and process introduction, as well as ongoing process change integrity.
  • Ensure all new product development efforts are completed in accordance to the New Product Development Process.

• Develop and maintain Materials Processes and Quality Engineering Standards in all areas of the plant.
  • Standards include early introduction requirements to daily production expectations: Process Capability, pFMEA, Process Sheets, Gage Control Plans, Gage Qualification and MSA practices in support of Process Gemba principles.
• Develop and maintain robust standards for the MIM processes: Maintaining Raw material through process controls of MIM Press / Debind / Sinter stability / Outside Process and final inspection of products.
  • Powder confirmation / Material confirmation controls
  • Process Development through final part controls – press preparation / setup
  • Furnace Controls and Validation through part inspection and audit
  • Carbon and Porosity Controls to support part formation/hardness
  • Hardness and Micro Hardness specification / validation
  • Material confirmation – lab part validation
  • Supplier Process controls for HIP and Heat Treat
  • Final Inspections
• Maintain robust measurement practices for the ongoing development, execution and evaluation of Ruger products driving a low cost high impact outcome.
  • Evaluate inspection and other equipment to meet current and future production needs
  • NDT testing equipment evaluation and needs for the business
  • Develop and maintain all Metallurgical inspection equipment
  • Gaging systems and types; CMM, Keyence, variable data and functional style gaging methods
  • Maintain a robust Quality Lab in accordance with Ruger Quality Standards – Excellence of the organization for all things quality.
  • Maintain calibration of all key measurement equipment at the necessary frequency to ensure robust and accurate measurements.
• Guide and assist Ruger engineers and team members in technical problem solving while mentoring through rigorous root cause analysis.
  • Mentoring will include the development of a strong problem solving culture through multiple strategic and practical methods: DMAIC / 5Why / Find and Fix / Symptomatic Analysis / Good Bad Comparison.
• Maintain a consistent form of inspection for the following needs of the organization:
  • Incoming Inspection or supplier parts
  • Hardness inspection: Macro and Micro
  • Non-Destructive Testing
  • Support for Engineering: various specialized checks
• Develop and maintain a strong process for supporting purchasing through strong supplier quality engagement to prevent incoming quality issues with suppliers and outgoing quality with customers.
  • Supplier Development Support and engagement to deliver consistent parts from the supply base
  • Tracking and management of supplier issues with focus on permanent corrective actions
  • Developing strong relationships with not only Ruger sourced suppliers, but with Ruger Customer Gun Division Plants
• Support Manufacturing with a Process Change Request (PCR) and approval process.
  • Manage ongoing changes to ensure actions are tracked and closed as appropriate or open concerns and issues are mitigated.
  • Support the system which prevents untracked change with unintended consequences.
• Coach and mentor all manufacturing team members to engage with strong servant leadership and communication to the shop-floor associates, as well as all stakeholders.
• Participate as a leader in recruitment of Key team members
• Participate in Key team member performance evaluations and development plans

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Additional Requirements:

Must be able to successfully pass a drug and background screen

Additional Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package including competitive salary, profit share and bonus (bonus and profit share based on company performance)
• Heath benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• Life and Retirement benefits including 401k match, discretionary supplemental 401k contribution, basic and supplemental life options, as well as short- and long-term disability plans
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Relocation Assistance is available for the right candidate
• Casual work environment