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I see from some of the other posts in this forum that I'm not alone in this world of "one person QM with MGMT neglect." But I thought I'd share my issues in hopes of getting some advice.
Our company (an aerospace machine shop, 50 employees) was acquired exactly a year ago today by a larger corporation with similar scopes of work. We were told that the company was financially stable and that we would be out of our struggle to keep our doors open soon. Well since that year has past things have gotten progressively worse.
Vendors not being paid, permanent withdraw of special process services from vendors, the forcing of many hats to be worn by cutting key personnel etc.
Granted we are still in business but are barely making shipments.
My biggest hurdle is trying to perform QM activities calibrations etc. along with being the MGMT Representative as well as IT Administrator.... I have asked management to hire another QM as our recent QM just retired. They are balancing their budget supposedly by not hiring another QM and pushing the responsibility down to myself and engineering. I'm told we will have to wait another year before budgets will allow for hiring of any employees with more cuts to come.
Mean while all of my IA activities are being performed by myself and it's becoming harder to stay out of activities that aren't usually my responsibility. Thus I have to have engineering audit my QM activities which puts a load on them and the spiral continues....
Some of our PEAR's call out 98% delivery as a quality/CS goal and use a certain number of errors to gauge work order and PO accuracy. These are being missed as well because of a lack of time for review prior to release.
With all this said am I better jumping ship and trying my luck in the current market as I could perform QM and/or IT Admin activities for most businesses. Or should I stay here and try and keep the tower from crumbling?
Sorry for the venting but I'm overwhelmed and hope that someone out there may have advice for a quickly balding QM.
Our company (an aerospace machine shop, 50 employees) was acquired exactly a year ago today by a larger corporation with similar scopes of work. We were told that the company was financially stable and that we would be out of our struggle to keep our doors open soon. Well since that year has past things have gotten progressively worse.
Vendors not being paid, permanent withdraw of special process services from vendors, the forcing of many hats to be worn by cutting key personnel etc.
Granted we are still in business but are barely making shipments.
My biggest hurdle is trying to perform QM activities calibrations etc. along with being the MGMT Representative as well as IT Administrator.... I have asked management to hire another QM as our recent QM just retired. They are balancing their budget supposedly by not hiring another QM and pushing the responsibility down to myself and engineering. I'm told we will have to wait another year before budgets will allow for hiring of any employees with more cuts to come.
Mean while all of my IA activities are being performed by myself and it's becoming harder to stay out of activities that aren't usually my responsibility. Thus I have to have engineering audit my QM activities which puts a load on them and the spiral continues....
Some of our PEAR's call out 98% delivery as a quality/CS goal and use a certain number of errors to gauge work order and PO accuracy. These are being missed as well because of a lack of time for review prior to release.
With all this said am I better jumping ship and trying my luck in the current market as I could perform QM and/or IT Admin activities for most businesses. Or should I stay here and try and keep the tower from crumbling?
Sorry for the venting but I'm overwhelmed and hope that someone out there may have advice for a quickly balding QM.
