Quality Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Knowledge of PPAP requirements.
• Understanding of ISO9001/IATF 16949 standards.
• Familiarity with health and safety rules and housekeeping principles.
• Ability to prepare reports and key measurable indicators.
• Experience in conducting corrective actions.
• Experience in attending management meetings.
• Experience in heading layered process audits (LPA).
• Experience in conducting department start-up meetings.
• Ability to provide oversight, direction, and delegate responsibilities.
• Experience in managing performance, including employee evaluations.
• Ability to coach, counsel, mentor, and discipline employees.
• Experience in interviewing and selecting candidates.
• Ability to determine employee development and training needs.
• Experience in preparing annual training plans.
• Ability to complete training effectiveness evaluation forms.
• Experience in succession planning and career development.
• Ability to assist with job analysis.
• Experience in preparing departmental budgets.
• Knowledge of departmental and general procedures.
• Adherence to all company safety rules, responsibilities, policies, and procedures, including legislative requirements of the OHSA.
• Adoption, practice, and promotion of Kaizen principles.
• Participation in Kaizen and GEAR activities.
• Encouragement of continuous improvement efforts.
• Ensuring submission of individual and team GEARs.
• Appropriate handling of sensitive information and maintenance of confidentiality.
• Observation of the Multimatic Environmental Policy.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with customers and coordinate with staff and internal departments to effectively meet PPAP requirements for the introduction of new products, and subsequent revisions of engineering changes.
• Direct quality staff to effectively monitor production to consistent required quality levels.
• Monitor and assist in the dispositioning of quarantined goods, with the goal of maintaining zero inventory in these areas.
• Keep management informed of quality product and liaison with all plant departments and customers.
• Monitor plant scrap and rework, customer rejections and returns.
• In the event of receiving a customer concern (verbal or electronic), issue a customer/concern report to the MDS team.
• Stop further processing and inform the area supervisor or manager responsible when becoming aware that a product or process is in non-conformance.
• Ensure business system is established, implemented and maintained in accordance with the current ISO9001/IATF 16949 standards, corporate and customer specific requirements.
• Ensure compliance to all health and safety rules and housekeeping principals. Ensure substandard conditions and practices identified in plant safety audits are corrected.
• Prepare reports and key measurable indicators each month. Carry out corrective actions if necessary and report information out in a monthly management review meeting.
• Attend management report-out meeting on a weekly basis; Production and Fast Response Meetings on a daily basis.
• Head the layered process audits (LPA) process and assure compliance as required.
• Conduct department start-up meetings on a daily basis.
• Provide oversight and direction and delegate responsibilities to all members in the department.
• Manage performance: communicate job expectations and conduct employee evaluations for all department members on an end of probation basis and an annual basis.
• Coach, counsel, mentor and discipline employees with the assistance of human resources and senior management as necessary.
• Work with human resources to interview and select candidates to fill vacancies within the department.
• Determine employee development and/or training needs for department members on an annual basis. Prepare annual training plan and submit to the human resources department.
• Complete training effectiveness evaluation forms and submit to the human resources department.
• Participate in succession planning activities including career development.
• Assist with job analysis on a yearly basis.
• Prepare departmental budget on an annual basis.
• Follow all departmental and general procedures where applicable.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the General Manager.
• Abide by all company safety rules, responsibilities, policies, and procedures including the legislative requirements of the OHSA.
• Adopt, practice, and promote Kaizen principles; participate in Kaizen and GEAR activities. Encourage continuous improvement efforts within the department and ensure submission of individual and team GEARs to achieve one hundred percent participation.
• Appropriately handle sensitive information and maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Observe the Multimatic Environmental Policy and agree to immediately contact a manager at Multimatic if I observe, create, or contribute to a condition that may adversely impact the environment.