Job RequirementsResponsibilities
Quality Management:
- The role holder will act as a champion of the customer in the organization.
- The role holder is responsible for planning, developing, and directing quality assurance policies, programs, and initiatives inside the business unit.
- The role holder will be responsible for managing the quality performance of the internal Alkegen supply chain, which operates across multiple sites paying close attention to extended operations & sub-contractors.
- The role holder will ensure that processes and used inside the Business Unit comply with established quality standards and regulations, not limited to ISO9000 and IATF 16949 standards.
Safety:
- The role holder drives continual improvement in safety, with no compromises to safety at any time.
Continuous Improvement:
- The role holder ensures that Plants operate with a sense of urgency and commitment to meet the objectives of the business unit.
- The roll holder will be a change agent and an advocate for a zero defects quality culture.
- The role holder will facilitate the resolution of external / internal quality issues with strong problem solving and critical thinking skills, root cause analysis, effective containment, and corrective action / prevention implementation
- The role holder will implement proven improvement strategies supported by statistically rigorous methods and/or lean methodologies.
- The role holder will deliver improvements in production efficiency and waste reduction to support zero material losses philosophy inside the business unit.
Team Leadership and Development:
- The role holder must be an effective influencer of plant managers, quality managers and other operational stakeholders to ensure that sites and functions operate with a sense of urgency and commitment to meet the objectives of the business unit.
- This role will own the QA toolset and develop competence in the tools across the organization.
Key Competencies
- Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values.
- Be able to lead, coach, and develop team members.
- Be highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm.
- Communicating in an open and honest way, that quickly builds trust and respect.
- Drives execution with the team and has a bias towards action, and results.
- Change Management: Proven, change management skills. Sets the scene for change, develops workable plans, communicates changes effectively, builds commitment and overcoming resistance to change.
- Problem Solving: Demonstrated problem solving skills. Quickly able to ascertain the cause of a problem through the use of disciplined, data driven problem-solving techniques. Not driven by emotional thinking when understanding problems.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.
- Significant prior experience in quality engineering / assurance with exposure to IATF16949, ISO 9001, AS9100 standards and ideally AIAG and VDA standards
- Experience of dealing with customers and acting as a focal point for the organization with the customer base.
- Experience CI and lean methodologies, ideally L6S Black Belt.
- Held leadership roles in large-scale manufacturing operations.
- Good understanding of Supply chain networks, Design for Manufacture Principles & Project management experience
- Strong analytical skills and experience with statistical process control and manufacturing data analysis.
- Travel: Up to 50% of the time may be required at certain times.
Base Compensation: 137,912.00 - 172,000.00 USD Annual
If you are interested in being part of a world class function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.
