What are the roles and responsibilities of a quality control manager?

Common rules and responsibilities for quality managers include:

• Establish quality procedures, standards, and specifications for a company

• Collaborate with an organization's purchasing manager to ensure raw materials from external suppliers meet quality requirements

• Set and enforce standards for health and safety during work operations

• Carry out research to identify ways to reduce waste and maximize resources

• Ensure manufacturing processes comply with both national and international standards of production

• Conduct surveys to identify customer requirements and ensure they are meeting established quality standards

• Provide recommendations to company management on ways to improve on existing quality processes

• Collect, compile, and analyze relevant quality statistical data to obtain information regarding quality performance

• Supervise technicians, inspectors, and other company staff to ensure they perform their duties in line with established quality procedures

• Monitor product development processes to identify deviations from quality policies

• Conduct tests to verify the quality of raw materials and finished products

• Review existing process and product specifications to identify the need for improvement or upgrade

• Approve compliant products and reject defective ones

• Prepare and present reports to update upper management on quality activities

• Maintain proper records of quality tests, procedures, and standards