Provide technical and quality support for all manufactured products. Ensure products are built to engineering drawings and specifications. Ensure successful development, implementation and maintenance of all quality systems. Manage Quality staff, supplier quality, quality quarantine area, field returns and nonconformance reporting.
Job Description:
Manage a team of up to 5 Quality Auditors.
Maintain constant surveillance over quality auditing team and all quality functions.
Maintain incoming and outgoing inspection programs.
Maintain PPAP inspection procedures.
Create NCR and communicate with vendors/supply chain.
Manage quality quarantine area, which includes MRB, Internal Damage, RMA's and product repairs.
Analyze nonconforming product found on production lines, facilitate handling of goods.
Interview, hire and train staff.
Create and review control plans, SOPs and other documentation to ensure quality requirements are met.
Manage and administer calibration standards.
Responsible for daily, weekly and monthly quality reporting and updates.
Interface with production teams, operations, vendors and customers, to resolve quality issues.
Conduct training sessions to keep QA personnel informed on procedures, methods, use of equipment and other techniques.
Ensure you keep your department fully staffed according to the approved QA organizational chart.
Confer with and in conjunction with Engineering and Manufacturing personnel, resolve problems relative to product designs, specifications, materials, tooling, and productions operations affecting quality.
Required:
Strong floor implementation abilities.
Knowledge of Six Sigma tools, primarily capability studies.
Must be able to read a mechanical blueprint.
Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing.
Knowledge of SPC.
Knowledge of ISO framework.
Must be able to create daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to ownership.