What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at Challenge Manufacturing Company?
POSITION SUMMARY
The Quality Manager is the Plant Champion that leads corporate quality management system (QMS) targets and objectives and continuous improvement initiatives at the manufacturing site.
RESPONSIBILITIES & RESULTS
- Responsible for supporting the development and maintenance of a customer-focused culture within the organization.
- Responsible for communication with Customers, on quality objectives, and when such corrective actions are necessary to ensure the quality management system (QMS) is maintained.
- Ensures that Customer Specific Requirements and expectations of customers have been accurately identified, communicated, and that the plant site is always meeting or exceeding such customer expectations in finished product quality.
- Responsible for ensuring that all other system managers, process owners and supervisors, at the plant site, develop and maintain their part/role in the quality management system.
- Maintains daily quality checks on the processes, documentation and metrics to ensure activities by other process owners and supervisors is being completed.
- Primary responsible for data collection, metrics monitoring, and the publication of statistics regarding plant performance against set corporate measures.
- Monitors and advises the Plant Manager and representatives of Corporate Quality on how the quality management system at the plant site is performing.
- Responsible for identifying needs of the quality management system at the plant site – to improve or support corporate quality or customer requirements.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & JOB REQUIREMENTS
- High school diploma or equivalent (required).
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferred).
- Minimum three years' experience in a quality role working on SOP's, creating projects and project timelines, layouts, APQP, quality core tools, layered audit, TS, etc. (required).
- Three or more years of supervisory experience (required).
- Automotive industry experience (required).