Position Title: Technical Manager

Salary Range: $96,000 - $137,000

The Technical Manager is responsible for overseeing the plant’s quality and environmental systems, ensuring compliance with relevant standards, regulations, and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Management

Leadership and Oversight:

• Direct the Quality Management System to implement and maintain quality systems, procedures, and methods.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with quality policies, customer requirements, and regulatory standards.

Analysis and Improvement:

• Track, analyze, and lead initiatives to address internal quality issues and customer complaints.
• Identify, investigate, and report on critical quality defects in in-process and finished products.
• Evaluate the seriousness of defects, determine root causes, and recommend corrective actions.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work with department managers to maximize product quality and reliability while minimizing costs.
• Collaborate with customers, customer service, sales, and plant personnel to define product requirements and resolve complaints efficiently.

System Maintenance:

• Oversee facility test labs, equipment calibration/maintenance, document management, and employee training related to quality.
• Coordinate and execute investigations into product risks, failures, and corrective/preventative actions.

Environmental Management

• Regulatory Compliance:
• Act as the primary technical contact for local, state, and federal environmental agencies.
• Perform monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting to ensure compliance with environmental regulations across air, wastewater, stormwater, solid and hazardous waste, SPCC, CERCLA/EPCRA, TSCA, and FDA programs.

Oversight and Implementation:

• Interface with regulatory personnel to stay updated on existing and proposed regulations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain environmental compliance monitoring and reporting systems.
• Maintain the facility’s Material Safety Data Sheet electronic system.

Audit and Reporting:

• Lead and manage internal and external regulatory compliance audits, ensuring all corrective actions are completed.
• Communicate compliance requirements and concerns to management and plant personnel, implementing corrective actions as needed.