Manager Quality Assurance

The Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

49d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is for engineering disciplines that focus on mechanical, electrical, or manufacturing engineering profiles. This position DOES NOT focus on IT, System Engineering, or Software related projects. The purpose of this role is to develop and manage customer-focused, data-driven, risk-based process controls in one of the engineering disciplines supporting manufacturing excellence: product (electrical / mechanical / material science), manufacturing, packaging, or industrial. This role will manage processes to ensure supplier and factory compliance with relevant requirements from Standard Operating Procedures, contracts, supplier buying agreements, and purchase orders. The role will enforce continuous improvement / corrective action / preventive action plan implementation throughout each process. The role will manage the business area / engineering discipline to the metrics and reporting developed to monitor quality, service, cost, and risk components of each process. The role will develop, coach, and train associates to deliver results consistent with strategy.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Bachelors degree in engineering, management, operations, or business
• International operations experience, supported by foreign language skills (oral and written)
• Personnel management experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Executive communication skills (e.g., development and delivery of presentations)
• Computer skills sufficient to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and interpret data
• Ability to travel internationally
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• 6 years of work experience
• Engineering standards development / review / enforcement - min 5 years experience
• Manufacturing / Operations / Quality Assurance / Quality Control - min 2 years management experience
• Personnel management - min 2 years experience
• Continuous improvement program development and execution (e.g., Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing)
• Cross functional, multi-project management - min 5 years experience
• Analysis / Statistics - min 3 years experience

Responsibilities

• Manage Standard Operating Procedures, reporting, metrics, and audit controls to support a data-driven system of risk and performance based criteria to manage suppliers, factories, and products to quality, cost, service, and risk goals.
• Develop and manage functional responsibilities of service providers, foreign sourcing offices, and internal resources.
• Identify and implement best practices based on industry knowledge.
• Develop and deliver training (internally and externally), tailored to the needs of the specific audience.
• Define technical requirements associated with factory and product specifications.
• Review and resolve issues with suppliers, factories, service providers, merchandising, store operations, distribution, safety, customers, and other related supply chain components.
• Direct supervision of the work activities of others, including planning, monitoring and reviewing work of subordinates.
• Make recommendations concerning selection, termination, performance appraisal and professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager