**Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security** _At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world._ **Quality Manager - Blue Ash, OH** A company’s people and culture is the one true advantage that can’t easily be replicated by its competitors. As a Quality Manager with Steelcraft, your role is to harness the power of employees and culture to create a quality organization that enables the transformation of our business. To do so, the Quality Manager must demonstrate an ability to lead a team to analyze performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and drive their implementation and achievement of performance targets. You will partner closely with Operations leader and employees to drive exceptional quality performance to our customers. This will be done through the development and refinement of our quality standards, processes, and through problem solving throughout the manufacturing process. This role will require strong leadership, change management, influencing, and problem solving skills. The Quality Manager is responsible for driving improvements to existing products and processes as well as new product development within the key systems commercial product lines. The Quality Manager will collaborate with Product Management to develop product road maps, establish project priorities, and guide direct reports in the timely completion of these projects. The Quality Manager has the overall technical responsibilities for the quality of the products as it relates to these lines. **What You Will Do:** + Manage a team of 6 quality engineers. + Supervisory responsibilities: staffing, employee development, succession planning, prioritizing, delegating and monitoring work, goal setting, performance reviews and salary administration. + Drive consistent improvement to key metrics like Cost of Quality and Issue for Orders + Monitors projects, prepares budgets, controls spending, and prepares progress reports and presentations for management. + Ensures urgent customer and plant issues with product quality are tracked and resolved in a timely manner. + Ensure regulatory compliance issues with product quality are tracked, prioritized, planned and implemented in a timely manner. + Continuous improvement / LEAN - analyze prior year product launch issues and execute specific activities/initiatives to improve launch quality & reliability. + Execute NPD projects according to Phase 2 exit commitment (budget, time, target cost and quality). + Utilize EPM 2010 & MS Project Pro for project management. All active projects to have detailed schedules loaded. Baseline will be created at P2 Exit and the on-time milestone completion will be measured against it. Ensure all engineers have adequate training/competency to create & manage a schedule. + Utilize EPM 2010 & MS Project Pro for resource management. Manages & Leads to ensure that all resources are allocated against active projects and this information is maintained at bi-weekly. + Drive VA/VE activities to support Materials Productivity Target. Drive 120% pipeline for VA/VE through workshops and other idea generation methods. Align with Product Mgmt. to allocate resources for scoping of top ideas. **What You Will Need To Succeed:** + 7-10 years of experience leading Quality, Manufacturing Operations or Engineering organizations + Education: Bachelor of Science – Engineering Degrees preferred + Continuous Improvement: Lean experience is highly desirable **Why Work for Us?** **Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:** + You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”. + You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us. + You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work! **What You’ll Get from Us:** + Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”. + A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period + Tuition Reimbursement + Unlimited PTO + Employee Discounts through Perks at Work + Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself” + Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching **Apply Today!** Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow’s world a safer place! **_Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role?_** _Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification_ **_and_** _every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role._ **We Celebrate Who We Are!** Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team (Careers@Allegion.com) . © Allegion plc, 2023 | Block D, Iveagh Court, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, Ireland REGISTERED IN IRELAND WITH LIMITED LIABILITY REGISTERED NUMBER 527370 Allegion is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer (https://www.allegion.com/corp/en/careers/equal-opportunity.html) Privacy Policy **We are Allegion.** A team of experts. United under a common desire; Protect today innovate for tomorrow. And never settle for the status quo. We believe in anticipating opportunities by sharpening our skills and finding new answers through collaboration. We believe in a safer, more secure world. We believe in providing peace of mind. We believe in being true to ourselves and to those who trust-in our protection. We are many. We are one. **We are Allegion.**