Quality Administrator 1

Under limited supervision, administers quality systems activities for specific product lines by performing the following duties personally or through others.

What You'll Do

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Support the manufacturing lines at all times.
• Assist other Quality Systems department personnel by covering other specific product lines when necessary.
• Monitors quality criteria for specific product lines.
• May recommend modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability.
• Conducts outside supplier receiving and finished goods audits to verify that incoming raw materials and outgoing finished goods meet quality criteria.
• Participates in Cross-Functional Work Team meetings as needed with other personnel to discuss quality issues on assigned production lines.
• Provides occasional training to production workers to help identify defective raw materials and finished goods.
• Conducts work-in-process quality audits and documents results.
• Presents quality charts and data at startup meetings.
• Develops and makes visual displays depicting good and bad parts, e.g. acceptable and unacceptable glass.
• Observes conduct of tests at supplier, plant or field locations to evaluate reliability factors such as numbers and causes of unit failures.
• Quarantines and oversees disposition of non-compliant material.
• Conduct temper break test and lami pummel and bake tests on a regular basis.
• Monitor accumulation of scrap material on an on-going basis.
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

Must mentor and provide help develop co-workers in Quality Systems Department and in production.

Who You Are

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software
• Able to coordinate multiple departments for a single outcome
• Familiar with the use of standard measuring equipment.
  
  

LANGUAGE / COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Mathematical Skills

No specific communication skills required

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions, averaging and, percentages.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to work independently with limited guidance from supervisor
• Problem resolution capabilities
• Able to make common sense decisions based on knowledge at hand
• Can differentiate between black/white specifications and business decisions
• Able to follow a logical train of thought to recreate events
• Ability to forecast outcomes based on different input and actions (action-reaction)
  
  

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Usual office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing.
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery.
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.
• Must be able to move throughout plant and receiving dock throughout day
• Must be able visually examine raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods
• Work in smoke-free environment – including air-conditioned office, unclimatized plant, and loading dock
• Standing approximately 90 % of the time up to 10 hours a day
• Frequent walking throughout glass facilities
• Frequent bending/stooping/squatting
• Occasionally reaching overhead when handling glass
• Frequent reaching away from body when pushing/pulling the harp carts and a-frames
• Occasionally pushing with minimal or maximum force to maneuver the glass down the production line on rollers
• Occasionally lifting up to 90 lbs
• Frequent repetitive hand/foot/head/neck movements required
  
  

Travel Requirements

Ability to travel occasionally domestically.

Occasional: activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.

Frequent: activity exists 1/3 and 2/3 of the time.

Who We Are

On March 28, 2024, PGT Innovations was successfully acquired by MITER Brands and incorporated into the organization’s portfolio. MITER Brands is a family of leading window and door brands united by a passion for quality and relentless pursuit of 100% .

WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

We have one purpose: Build the most valued window and door brand in America. But, like all great things, that journey starts by bringing together a team of the most passionate, experienced and dedicated window experts in the industry. From our team to our customers and our communities, we strive to inspire deeper engagements and new possibilities for all. Because we believe that business is always personal.

PEOPLE FIRST ISN'T JUST A CATCHPHRASE.

It's a value we live every day. We make investments for the long-haul, to ensure the success of all. Because when our people win, we all win.

DOING THE RIGHT THING IS IN OUR DNA.

Through best practices, strategic investments and our relentless Pursuit of 100%, we strive for higher quality, greater precision and more efficiency in everything we do.

WE SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS AT A DEPTH THAT OTHERS CANNOT.

We find every opportunity to deliver seamless engagements and the extraordinary experiences that lead to valued, long-lasting relationships.