Quality Manager

Trinity Health•Shell Rock, IA

About The Position

TrinityRail Maintenance Services, Inc. is hiring a Quality Manager for its Shell Rock, Iowa facility. The role contributes to the organization’s success by developing and implementing programs that establish and maintain quality standards for existing products and services and by focusing employees on quality improvement. The Quality Manager plans, develops, enhances, and maintains the Quality Management System (QMS), supports continuous improvement of manufactured products, and ensures products meet or exceed customer specifications. The role manages departmental resources and budget, leads quality-related activities and personnel, serves as the Quality Management Representative, facilitates management reviews, and coordinates quality objectives with business, product, and customer expectations. The position also oversees data collection and analysis, discrepancy resolution, pilot runs, quality communications, and monitoring of non-compliance and corrective and preventive actions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience to obtain the required knowledge base.
5–7 years of relevant experience.
Weld experience.
Direct experience with a quality function and/or quality-related responsibilities.
Direct experience in team facilitation and group leadership.
Previous supervisory or management experience, skills, and responsibility.
Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work efficiently and effectively with others one-on-one and as part of a team or group.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

ASQ CQM/OE, QE, CWI, and/or Six Sigma certification.

Responsibilities

Plan, develop, enhance, and maintain a Quality Management System to continuously improve products and meet or exceed customer specifications.
Manage available time, money, and resources to respond efficiently and prioritize quality-system or product requirements in a quantifiable manner.
Provide departmental and company leadership, including supervision of direct reports and others involved in the quality department’s function.
Serve as the Quality Management Representative and monitor and manage the QMS.
Facilitate QMS Management Review meetings.
Formulate and maintain quality objectives aligned with business, product, and customer expectations.
Plan, allocate, and manage the departmental budget in accordance with the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
Direct and facilitate the collection and analysis of data.
Work with manufacturing and supplier personnel to resolve or prevent discrepancies.
Perform or facilitate pilot runs.
Exchange quality information with other departments.
Communicate quality information in the necessary formats to required parties.
Monitor deviations, non-compliance, and correction and preventive-action systems.
Participate in meetings and provide training as required.
Perform other duties as assigned.