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Quality Assurance Manager

139914 · Sedentary

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Quality assurance managers make sure a company's products and services meet and uphold industry standards.

Most common salary $80k – $139k
Upper salary up to $176k
Training 0-2 years

Description

Plans, organises, directs, controls and co-ordinates the deployment of quality systems and certification processes within an organisation.

Typical work tasks

  • Identifies and develops objectives, strategies and plans to achieve customer satisfaction and maximise efficient use of an organisationメs resources, including identifying potential improvements to systems, processes and work flows; identifies formal standards and regulatory codes appropriate to an organisationメs needs and assists with the documentation of processes and operating procedures; implements statistical methodologies and quality tools to monitor and control quality to satisfy internal and external customer requirements.

Typical work environment

  • Works indoors in offices, meeting rooms or operational areas contained within medium to large public or private sector organisations.
  • May work outdoors occasionally depending on the industry.
  • Works in adequately heated, ventilated and clean, well maintained offices.

Typical physical and mental demands

  • Sedentary work with frequent sitting in offices at a desk or in meetings.
  • Stands and walks frequently in office and operational areas.
  • Lifting, carrying or pulling is not a significant component of this job.
  • Bending, squatting or crouching is unlikely to be required.
  • Stretching, twisting, climbing is unlikely to be required.
  • Occasional to frequent repetitive hand and finger movements are required when using hand-held objects/equipment including pens, calculators, a keyboard and mouse.
  • Driving is not typically a significant component of the job.
  • Mental skills necessary include a high level of cognitive functioning with communication, interpersonal, administration, research, analytical, planning, organisational, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
Entry signal Reviewed

Requires a substantial formal qualification.

Entry barrier Formal qualification
Licence / registration No licence required
ANZSCO skill level 1
Next-day ready No

How this was determined (model-generated): Skill Level 1: relevant tertiary qual or 5 years experience; no legal gate.

Entry Requirements

  • A relevant tertiary qualification or at least five years applicable experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 1). In some instances particular experience and/or on-the-job training may be required.

Further Comments

  • There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.