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Job Id:
507
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Job Summary: Plan coordinate and direct quality assurance program that ensures quality production of products consistent with established Quality Management System standards, customer, and Company requirements, as well as champions a continuous improvement system, processes and organization that aggressively reduces non-conforming materials.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Supervisory Responsibility:
- Manage all employees in the Quality Assurance department directly or indirectly through department supervisors.
- Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the Quality Assurance department.
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
- Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning, directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
- Conduct employee development through challenging assignments, technical conferences, seminars and formal training.
Process Management:
- Monitor internal processes
- Coordination of SPC implementation and execution
- Reporting of operating discrepancies to the appropriate manager
- Ongoing training and certification of operations personnel as required
Quality Management:
- Maintain a compliant ISO/IATF 16949 Quality Management System
- The management representative for the Prescott Division
- Coordinates the quality activities that are required to support the ISO/IATF 16949 Quality Management System
- Establish and audit all quality procedures and system per ISO/IATF 16949 standards
- Report audit findings and system performances as required by the system
- Research and refine Quality Management Systems and procedures
- Vendor relations liaison
- Improve and strengthen vendor relations through facility audits
- Identification of vendor performance metrics and assist the tracking of vendor performance
- Facilitate the collection of data, analyze the Quality System Report and implement effective preventative and corrective actions with the support of manufacturing and engineering. Some of the potential tools are:
- In-process scrap and trend reports
- Returned material and DPPM levels
- Corrective Action / Preventative Action
- Report findings to management staff
- Maintain a working knowledge of government and industrial quality assurance codes and standards.
- Participate in Material Review Board Activities and Feasibility Review to meet Customer Specific Requirements as needed.
- Develop policies and procedures relating to the quality management system as appropriate.
- Lead Site Internal Auditor who issues Audit Reports and monitors corrective actions for closure from the Audit.
- Participate on the Company's Continuous Improvement Plan.
Project Management:
- Define projects that improve the quality of the product or the quality management system.
- Projects should be proactive and seek root cause solutions.
- Establish priority for projects with a customer driven focus.
Customer Support and Problem Resolution:
- Interface with customers to resolve quality problems or concerns
- Take ownership of customer complaints and facilitate the completion of the necessary corrective actions
- Approve and receive RMA’s, and as needed, complete failure analysis to determine root cause.
- Schedule, prepares and participates in customer and third-party audits.
- Participate in customer visits (both internal and external).
Safety:
- Propose improvements to safety related operating procedures for production equipment, chemical handling and employee personal safety equipment.
- Regularly review work areas and examines tools/equipment to detect unsafe conditions or violations of safety rules.
- Evaluate processes for ergonomics, equipment guarding, and general safety to meet or exceed OSHA regulations.
- Ensure all Job Hazard Analysis are reviewed when changes are made to a process.
Environmental:
- Help coordinate the Quality functions of the Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Direct efforts of the Quality Department in ISO 14001 compliance
Minimum Qualifications:
- ISO/IATF 16949 system management experience. Prefer ASQ Certified Quality title.
- Prior supervisory experience. Takes responsibility for subordinates' activities; makes self-available to staff; provides regular performance feedback.
- Experience working with mathematical calculations.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001, IATF16949, AS9100 and ISO14000.
- PCB and IPC Standard Experience
- Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Database software; Manufacturing software; Spreadsheet Software, Word Processing and MiniTab software.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Able to analyze and collect data.
- Project Management - develops project plans.
- Technical Skills -strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
- Customer service orientated.
- Able to work on a team and build team dynamics.
- Change Management - Develops workable implementation plans.
- Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities -uses time efficiently.
- Quality - Finds ways to improve and promote quality.
Education and/or Experience Required Bachelor's degree (B. S.) from four-year College or university in engineering or related field; and a minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment working with quality programs
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