Quality Assurance Manager
139914 · Sedentary Career data Verified
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.