Our Company:
PopSockets LLC, based in Boulder, Colorado, designs, manufactures and sells innovative lifestyle products. Our flagship product, the PopSockets grip—a collapsible grip and stand that provides secure one-handed holding for any mobile device—was invented by philosophy professor David Barnett, with the first grip sold on PopSockets.com in 2014 and the 100 millionth sold in 2018. PopSockets products embody the company's mission to create empowering, personal, and fun products.

PopSockets was named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado in 2018 and also listed as Inc. 5000's second fastest growing company in the US, with a 71,424% percent of sales increase over the last three years.

For more information on what it's like to work at PopSockets, check out: https://www.builtincolorado.com/company/popsockets-llc

The Role:
To cooperate with Popsockets suppliers to maintain and improve the quality of the products according to company policies.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and foster effective partnerships with suppliers.
• Ensure suppliers adherence to Popsockets Quality Control standards, test procedures and quality system requirements by implementing the related quality control audit, quality system audit and the training, etc.
• Work with suppliers to conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions to achieve and maintain < 500 DPPM.
• Work with Popsockets Operations and Quality team to resolve issues that are not plant controllable.
• Develop inspection procedures and best methods for performing inspections.
• Work with Popsockets Engineering and Quality teams to analyze historical issues and create required control plans to prevent these issues from occurring in future programs.
• Develop projects to support World Class Manufacturing and Lean principles to continuously improve supplier and manufacturing quality.

Requirements:

• Hard good manufacturing quality improvement experience
• Relevant undergraduate engineering degree required.
• Minimum of 5 years of quality engineering/supplier quality experience.
• Lean / Six sigma training (certification preferred) with implementation experience in hard good manufacturing
• Proven analytical ability as a way to problem solve
• Exceptional critical thinking and active listening skills
• Time management skills
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills, including the ability to write technical reports and presentations
• Willingness to periodically work outside of normal business hours
• Self-starter with the ability to quickly learn, develop and implement new processes.