Quality Leader

Barry-Wehmiller • Phillips, WI

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About The Position

The Quality Leader is responsible for facilitating the systematic root cause resolution of quality issues via the Quality System Manager (QSM) application. The Quality Leader will ensure appropriate quality incident input, assign ownership, prioritize, and drive owner accountability for timely closure to root cause. This role ensures compliance with quality standards, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and leads cross-functional teams to achieve excellence in product quality and process efficiency. This position reports to the Director of Quality-Operations and plays a critical role in executing the overall Quality Management System throughout the manufacturing facility.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or related technical field desired
• 5-7 years of experience in quality management within manufacturing required
• Manufacturing engineering experience required (process development, production systems, or manufacturing operations)
• Requires the ability to independently resolve complex problems.
• Requires ability to manage a skilled and diverse staff, communicate effectively, represent the organization, act decisively, and influence decisions of senior managers and customers
• Requires foresight to anticipate problems and recognize opportunities for cost-effectively improving operations

Nice To Haves

• Experience in capital equipment manufacturing or similar complex manufacturing environment preferred
• Experience with continuous improvement methodology such as Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, or Strategy Deployment

Responsibilities

• Manage QSM application - ensure Quality Incident Reports (QIR) maintain required standards, reason codes, priority, and assign to applicable owners
• Ensure QIRs are resolved in a timely manner with the appropriate action to resolve to the root cause by training owners/teams and proper utilization of RCCA/RCCM, 5 Why’s, etc
• Utilize data and pareto analysis to establish/rank priority to achieve greatest impacts
• Monitor and report on quality system performance metrics and KPIs
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive timely and root cause resolution
• Support the Director of Quality in executing the cross-functional Quality Management System
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering to develop quality standards for new processes and equipment
• Participate in process validation and qualification activities
• Review and approve manufacturing process changes from a quality perspective
• Integrate quality checkpoints and controls into manufacturing workflows
• Work with engineering teams on design for manufacturability and quality initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees