Tyler Union- Assistant Quality Manager

Tyler Union, a division of McWane, Inc., is the nation's leading manufacturer of Ductile Iron Waterworks Fittings and Appurtenances has an immediate opening for an Assistant Quality Manager for its main manufacturing facility.

Assistant Quality Managerwill help lead and support all quality operations within our ductile iron foundry. This role partners closely with the Quality/ISO Manager and plant leadership to ensure products meet internal, customer, and regulatory quality standards while driving continuous improvement across casting and molding processes. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior quality professional with strong foundry and metallurgical experience who is ready to step into broader leadership responsibility.Proactively promotes The McWane Way principals, values, and behaviors and lives the Compass Culture.

This is a salaried exempt position, with an excellent benefits package with health, life, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, vacation, holiday pay and 401(k).

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All candidates offered employment must submit to a drug screen, physical, and background check.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in managing the plant Quality Management System (ISO 9001) and related compliance activities
• Support internal, customer, and third-party quality audits
• Lead investigations into non-conformances, customer complaints, and scrap using root cause methodologies (8D, FMEA, SPC)
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on defect reduction, process stability, and "quality at the source"
• Oversee inspection activities including dimensional, visual, and metallurgical evaluations
• Support quality oversight of green sand molding, melting, and casting operations
• Utilize and interpret data from CMMs, spectrometers, hardness testing, and other quality tools
• Partner with production, engineering, and maintenance teams to implement corrective and preventive actions
• Support supplier quality activities, including incoming material inspection and vendor corrective actions
• Help train, coach, and develop quality personnel and hourly production teams
• Prepare and present quality metrics, trends, and reports to plant leadership

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or Metallurgical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of quality experience in a foundry or heavy manufacturing environment
• 2-3 years in a supervisory/mentorship/leadership capacity
• Strong background in ductile iron casting and green sand molding preferred
• Solid understanding of metallurgical principles and casting defect analysis
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 or similar quality systems
• Experience with quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, 8D, and root cause analysis
• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Key Skills

• Ductile Iron Casting & Metallurgy
• Green Sand Molding Processes
• ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
• Root Cause Analysis (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Scrap Reduction & Defect Analysis
• Dimensional & Visual Inspection
• CMM, Spectrometer & Hardness Testing
• Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA)
• Supplier Quality & Incoming Inspection
• Continuous Improvement / Lean / Six Sigma
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration
• Team Training, Coaching & Development
• Quality Metrics, Reporting & Data Analysis

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving the whole body include climbing, lifting up to 50 pounds, balancing, walking, standing, stooping, and handling tools and materials.

Must wear common protective or safety equipment, such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, and hard hats.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment varies from a typical office setting to a plant environment that may be hot, cold, dusty, and noisy. It is a requirement to be in and out of the plant on a regular basis. As necessary, must wear common protective or safety equipment, such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, and hard hats. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.