Quality Manager – Injection Molding

Job Title: Quality Manager – Injection Molding
Location: Shelby Township, MI
Company: Atomic Industries
Reports To: Director of Manufacturing

About Atomic Industries

Atomic Industries is reinventing how the world makes things. From cars and aerospace systems to medical devices and packaging, most physical goods begin life in a mold or are shaped by a manufacturing tool. Producing these tools has always been slow, manual, and dependent on scarce expertise, taking weeks or months. We’re changing that.

At our Detroit headquarters, we combine the industrial DNA of America’s manufacturing heartland with the speed, intelligence, and precision of Silicon Valley. Our AI-driven platform tackles the hardest problems in geometry, process planning, and fabrication, collapsing production timelines from months to days and soon, minutes. We don’t just build software; we run a fully operational factory where our technology produces production-grade tooling every week, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration.

Backed by top-tier investors, we’re restoring speed, flexibility, and capability to the American industrial base. Our mission is to make manufacturing as agile and scalable as the digital world, and in doing so, rebuild the infrastructure of the physical economy.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a hands-on, detail-obsessed Quality Manager to lead all aspects of product and process quality across our injection molding operations. This role is critical in ensuring we meet or exceed customer expectations in precision, consistency, and compliance—especially as we scale to ISO 9001 and eventually IATF 16949 certification.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy
  

  • Lead the Quality Department for all molding operations (startup and scale-up phases)
    

  • Define and implement Atomic’s Quality Management System (QMS)
    

  • Develop and execute quality plans aligned with ISO and IATF requirements
    

• Production Support
  

  • Own part qualification process: PPAP, capability studies, control plans, first article inspections
    

  • Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions (8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone)
    

  • Monitor and report KPIs (scrap, customer complaints, audit scores, etc.)
    

• Systems & Compliance
  

  • Manage document control, audits, calibration, and traceability systems
    

  • Drive internal audits and prepare for external certifications and customer audits
    

  • Oversee inspection activities (incoming, in-process, final)
    

• Collaboration & Tech Enablement
  

  • Work with design, tooling, process engineering, and software teams to build closed-loop quality feedback
    

  • Help digitize and integrate quality workflows into Atomic’s proprietary software stack
    

• Team Development
  

  • Hire and train inspectors and quality technicians
    

  • Build a culture of quality ownership across departments
    

Qualifications

• 10+ years in quality roles in injection molding (automotive or medical preferred)
  

• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards and PPAP/APQP requirements
  

• Proficient with inspection equipment (CMM, vision systems, gauges)
  

• Familiar with statistical tools (SPC, MSA, GR&R)
  

• Able to lead and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
  

• Bonus: Experience with software-driven quality systems or digital QMS platforms
  

What You Get

• Opportunity to shape quality culture from the ground up in a next-gen manufacturing company
  

• Work with cutting-edge automation, software, and materials
  

• Competitive pay, benefits, and equity opportunity