Manager Plant Quality

Yanfeng•Highland Park, MI

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager Plant Quality will be responsible for developing, leading, and maintaining training initiatives through mentoring and coaching of best practices. This role involves managing all resource demands, ensuring proper allocation with skilled individuals, and ensuring plant quality standards are adequate for incoming material, standardized manufacturing processes, and overall quality. The position leads efforts in optimizing Operational quality performance KPIs and associated scorecard metrics, establishes and maintains exceptional customer-facing relationships for excellent customer satisfaction and loyalty, and evaluates, approves, and provides expertise for problem-solving, internal/external audit preparation, and disposition of non-conforming materials. This role also drives the quality system management process (YF iOS), administers quality metric reviews for plant management, drives Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) initiatives, leads quality-driven project management initiatives, and reviews/approves new process changes. Other duties as required/assigned.

Requirements

5-9 Years of experience in quality management and customer interaction.
5-9 Years of Experience within the automotive industry.
Working knowledge of external quality standards (e.g., VDA, IATF, ISO, customer) and requirements.
Advanced knowledge/training in core Quality Tools (e.g., APQP, PPAP, MSA, SPC, PFMEA, Control Plan, etc.) and problem-solving methodologies.

Nice To Haves

Green Belt or Black Belt training/certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, lead and maintain training initiatives through mentoring and coaching of best practices.
Manage all resource demands ensuring proper allocation with capable, skilled individuals.
Ensure plant quality standards are adequate in controlling incoming material, standardized manufacturing processes, and quality.
Lead efforts in optimizing Operational quality performance KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and associated scorecard metrics.
Establish and maintain exceptional customer facing relationships, resulting in excellent customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Evaluate, approve and/or provide expertise for problem solving (e.g., root cause and robust permanent corrective actions), internal/external audit preparation, etc.
Responsible for disposition of non-conforming materials.
Drives quality system management process (YF iOS).
Administers Quality metric reviews for plant management.
Drives Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) initiatives.
Leads quality-driven project management initiatives.
Review/approve new process changes.
Perform other duties as required/assigned.