Woodbridge - Fremont, OH

posted 6 days ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Fremont, OH
5,001-10,000 employees
Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing

About the position

Woodbridge is seeking a professional to join our Moulded Foam business unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for customer management, COPQ management, WPS and standardization, supplier management, quality system management, and people management and development. This role requires a strong focus on understanding customer requirements, leading quality initiatives, and ensuring compliance with quality standards across multiple plants. The position also involves training and developing quality teams, promoting best practices, and maintaining effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Know and analyze the specific customer requirements, processes and products understanding how much our failure modes can impact the customer lines and final products.
  • Track customer indicators, generate corrective action plans with the plant teammates when needed.
  • Monitor and advise the plants so that we have OEM inspection implemented, understood, and practiced.
  • Ensure that all past problems are converted into lessons learned knowledge for engineering, process, tooling, production, and quality plant manager teams.
  • Leading monthly meetings with plant managers for discussion and follow up of COPQ reduction action plans.
  • Review and provide feedback to all COPQ lessons learned and submitted, acknowledging when they meet all the requirements and teaching them how to achieve it when they do not.
  • Keep constant training in WEPS for all quality employees.
  • In case of common problems between plants, ensure that the solution found in one will also be systemically applied systemically and establish a feedback loop to ensure standards are met.
  • Guarantee the monthly analysis and periodically audit locally the assessments sent by the plants.
  • Assist suppliers with problem solving techniques by reducing the amount of NC products that arrive to plants.
  • Assist and train the plants in problem solving with the supplier.
  • Together with Corporate Quality, ensure that plants are meeting legislative and regulatory requirements (TS, ISO, etc ...)
  • Responsible to ensure implementation of quality system in new plants.
  • Schedule internal audits.
  • Accompany external audits.
  • Generate local and / or global alerts whenever necessary.
  • Keep managers informed about system changes and review of standards and specification.
  • Ensure that quality LAUNCH activities are being fulfilled such as with; DVPR, PPAP, Process Flow, Vendor.
  • Provide training in quality tools for plants.
  • Hold monthly update meetings with those responsible for plant quality.
  • Promote semiannual events among quality analysts and laboratory technicians to discuss best practices and align discipline information.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree Technical
  • Quality or equivalent - 8 years
  • Supplier management experience
  • Project management experience
  • WPS and lean manufacturing knowledge
  • Intermediate English - written and oral
  • MS Project proficiency
  • Good skills with office tools
  • Availability for international travel
  • Good communication skills with internal and external customers

Nice-to-haves

  • Leadership skills and interpersonal skills with the ability to share and transfer knowledge and skills to / with others.
  • Dependable and self-motivated individual with good attendance / disciplinary and safety record who can work effectively with minimal supervision.
  • Detail oriented individual with excellent thinking and trouble-shooting skills; able to make decisions based on information and analysis.
  • Some math and computer skills are essential to perform job duties.

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation & Benefits Plan
  • Defined Contribution Plan with additional company match
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Employee Assistance Program with free access to health and wellness coaches
  • Continuous Learning Culture - We believe in Upskilling & Internal Promotions!
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