Quality and Safety Environmental Specialist

Sms Group Inc•Gary, IN

About The Position

The successful Quality and Safety Environmental Specialist will manage the ISO-9001 quality management system requirements for the facilities to ensure compliance and continual improvement of the management system and quality delivery. Including Safety and Environmental to drive EHS and lean improvements across workshop by identifying and culling system deficiencies and failures. At SMS group, our people are our greatest asset. We offer an entrepreneurial environment that promotes a culture of innovation, growth, and inclusion. We offer company events, activities, and opportunities to participate in charitable initiatives that benefit the communities where we are located. www.sms-group.us

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (BS) from four-year college or university, two or more years of related experience in governance, administration and operation of a quality management system and all components in a manufacturing or processing industries.
Demonstrated proficiency in incident investigation, root cause analysis and safety causation models.
Knowledge of federal/state/local safety regulations
Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or government regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customer and the public.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Computer Skills: GSS, Microsoft Office suite (Word, excel, Powerpoint).
Advanced algebra and ability to apply mathematical concepts in solving quality problems related to material processing, manufacturing and special relationships.

Nice To Haves

VBA programing a plus

Responsibilities

Assist with initial implementation then ensure the QMS is maintained.
Champion overall quality responsibilities for the assigned region
Promote quality as continuous improvement program and ensure employees are constantly committed to this process through a variety of engagement opportunities: investigations, root cause analysis, identification of corrective actions, review of lessons learned from incidents.
Maintains a strong shop floor presence, engage employees, promote improvement opportunities and forge relationships with employees at all levels
Actively listens to input from employees and responds as needed to improve quality embed quality processes and controls in “how we work”.
Utilize advanced analytics to drive decision making and keep managers aware of their location’s quality performance at their locations
Work with workshop management teams to develop quality incident reductions plans
Conduct quality leadership training for managers, supervisors and employees
Keeps quality records
Manage quality incident investigations, evaluate for trends and collaborate with process owners, engineers and/or other parties to institute tangible corrective actions.
Applies systemic risk management to identify opportunities to improve intrinsic quality controls to prevent human error
Creates new and transforms existing quality record keeping process to assure appropriate behaviors and all quality processes are conducted are desired and produce desired results.
Conduct internal quality audits.
Networks with other quality professionals across the company to share best practices and critical discussions on quality issues.
Maintains records on calibrations
Responds to customer inquiries on quality
Participate in registration/surveillance audits.
Reports variety of safety data in incident information in corporate safety management systems
Develops and implements new and modified safety policies for the assigned region
Networks with other safety professionals across the company to share best practices and critical discussions on safety issues.
Provide input to corporate safety as need regarding proposed safety policies to the benefit of all involved.
Identify and utilize technology products to aid in injury reduction and safety improvement
Applies systemic risk management to identify opportunities to improve intrinsic safety controls to prevent human error.
Conduct local and corporate safety training for employees and new hires
Keeps records of on safety training and employee certifications
Promote safety as continuous improvement program and ensure employees are constantly committed to this process through a variety of engagement opportunities; investigations, root cause analysis, identification of correction actions, review of lessons learned from incidents at other SMS locations.
Facilitate 5s and lean improvement projects
Travel to sites at least 2 times per year.
Ensure corrective actions are properly generated, documented, tracked and effectively closed.
Ensure quality document control and records controls are maintained and operating effectively.
Conduct Management review.
Conduct activities as Management Representative.
Teleconference with all facilities to ensure all action items from audits, observations, complaints, etc. are effectively followed through on.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.