New Quality Assurance Manager Joins Forest City Gear

ROSCOE, IL – April 16, 2018. Forest City Gear has hired John Young as Quality Assurance Manager to oversee the activities of the company’s world-class Quality Lab and help manage the latest quality systems for aerospace, medical and other precision gearing applications.

Mr. Young brings a wealth of quality lab management experience and a deep familiarity with the latest inspection technologies, practices and systems used by companies producing precision parts for the aerospace, military, energy, automotive and other industrial markets. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Advanced Master Black Belt, and certified in Project Management and Strategic Organizational Leadership from Villanova University, as well as a certified Metrologist/Inspector from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

“Finding a Quality Assurance Manager is a little like searching for a needle in the haystack,” says Forest City Gear President and CEO Wendy Young. “Our criteria is particularly challenging: vast quality experience, familiarity with all the latest quality management systems and certifications as they relate to our core customers, an understanding of gear-related quality issues and, rarer still, someone that customers and quality staff alike would enjoy working with. Fortunately, John is the perfect fit.”

Since 1955, Roscoe, IL based, family-owned Forest City Gear has been one of the gear industry’s leading sources for the development, manufacture and inspection of the highest quality gears, for use in applications that range from medical devices to motorcycles, airplanes to automation, even including the Mars Curiosity Rover.

For more information, visit:  www.forestcitygear.com.