WHAT IS A ROLE OF QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER?


Quality control managers play a critical role in manufacturing industry & ensuring work quality on parts and driving up efficiencies in process. We take a look at this QA job—the skills and the career paths.


Are you a professional (perfectionist)? Are machining and manufacturing in your DNA? If yes, then the job of quality control manager might be right in your wheelhouse.


Perfection is no doubt an overstatement, as the fctrue role of this job is to balance the delivery of high-quality parts against optimal manufacturing efficiency. It is a vital position & these managers have a central role that must ensure both quality and speed to market.


“Strong dedication, attention to detail, observation, organisational and leadership skills” are all typical attributes for success in this job.



What Does a Quality Control Manager Do?

Quality control managers oversee product quality to ensure products are created to the specifications; they also focus on ways to make the production process as efficient as possible.

 “They choose different ways, how, whom, where and how often manufacturing products are tested during the manufacturing process, “they must balance between too many tests, which slows manufacturing, and too few tests, which leads to lower-quality products.”


In addition to that more typical work, this crucial role also involves reviewing statistical studies, technological advances, regulatory standards and general manufacturing trends to keep current on issues tied to quality control.


A review of job listings for quality control managers in  companies also look for other qualities in their candidates.

 “They like leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.”


As already noted, it’s a role that involves Central work—often between the mid level ,workers on the plant or shop floor and managers about issues related to work processes and to production.


The quality control manager definitely focuses on operations practices and ways to help drive up productivity,  and improve work processes(5'S' & Kaizen activity) that will reduce costs while also ensuring that parts and products adhere to desired quality specifications and in time delivery.


Although the exact work demands may vary across businesses, Inspect final output, comparing it to requirements and approving or non-conformance products.

Set the requirements and parameters for raw materials from suppliers and monitor.

Oversee product development procedures to identify any deviations from quality standards.



Experience on the job will lead to salary bumps—up to a point. Some survey found that managers in this role for more than 20 years actually made slightly less than their less experienced counterparts.


This difference in pay also could account for the increasing demands of the job today—new skill sets tied to tech-heavy manufacturing environments and the adoption of methodologies such as lean manufacturing, DOL system for instance.



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Quality control managers start on a career path to their jobs through a number of roles: as Manger, as members of the inspection team, as product engineers, as assistant quality control managers.


What Are the Educational Requirements for Quality Control Managers?

As to education, many in this job are engineers, though an engineering degree is not a make-or-break for success in this field. Nearly all companies seek candidates with explicit manufacturing experience, and some also look for specific industry vertical knowledge.

That said, a college degree is typically an expectation for these jobs and often one in engineering for the jobs on the higher end of the pay range.


Bureau of Labor Statistics data “indicated that job candidates interested in quality control management positions should possess at least a bachelor’s degree,”