SUMMARY
We have an exciting and highly visible Quality Manager role located in Charlotte Metro, North Carolina area. If you are passionate about ensuring top-notch quality in every aspect of product creation and thrive on implementing and maintaining procedures that adhere to the highest standards…we have the perfect opportunity for you!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for maintaining a corporate quality assurance system that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts financial performance.
- Champion continuous improvements efforts and defect reduction initiatives to establish an effective Quality Management System (QMS); initiate and implement quality improvement activities as appropriate to raise the performance of the company’s product lines. Educate and train employees as to their impact in the quality management system.
- Manage quality control personnel on a day-to-day basis.
- Design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
- Establish, implement, and maintain metrics (process capability, control charts, measurements quality) for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions.
- Perform root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements using 8D’s, A3’s and FMEA’s.
- Conducted or participated in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
- Develop process certification standards and assist in process certification.
- Review customer purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
- Basic understanding of running a CMM or Faro Arm and interpretation of GD&T.
- Launch Kaizen events for Continuous Improvements.
- Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses.
- Maintain required documentation of quality control processes.
- Maintain revision levels of quality control process documentation.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) from an accredited four-year college or university; and five plus years related (vehicle manufacturing) industry experience required.
- 3+ years of Quality leadership with direct reports
- ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor Certified
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified
- Thorough knowledge of IATF 16949 to include APQP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control plans, PPAP and standardized work.
- Knowledge in welding steel product in accordance with ANSI/AWS standard – D1.1