This position reports to:Plant Manager
The work model for the role is: Onsite #LI-Onsite
Your role and responsibilities: In this role, the Quality Manager provides leadership and strategic direction for Quality at the Ozark, AR Motor Plant. This position is responsible for ensuring product quality, maintaining compliance with quality standards and certifications, driving continuous improvement initiatives and leading the resolution of customer, supplier, and internal quality issues.
You will be mainly accountable for: - Quality Leadership & Performance Management - Lead and manage all quality assurance and quality control activities to achieve plant quality objectives, performance targets, and customer expectations.
- Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving - Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing processes, reducing scrap, rework, and warranty costs, and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Quality Systems & Compliance - Maintain ISO certifications and other applicable quality management system requirements, ensuring ongoing compliance, audit readiness, and adherence to company standards.
- Customer & Supplier Quality Management - Collaborate with customers, suppliers, engineering, and plant operations to resolve quality issues, improve processes, and enhance product reliability and customer satisfaction.
Qualifications for the role: - Bachelor's degree with minimum 8 years OR Associate's degree with minimum 10 years of experience in quality, operations or related manufacturing experience.
Preferred Experience Includes: Strong knowledge of ISO standards and quality management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to apply lean manufacturing tools and methodologies (Flex-Flow, 5S & 6S, Industry 4.0 IoT, 8D, PPAP) to drive continuous improvement.
- Experience managing quality operations, including ISO certification maintenance, corrective/preventive actions, root cause analysis, and day-to-day quality department activities.
- Track record of driving process improvements to reduce cost of poor quality (scrap, rework, warranty), with preferred certifications (ASQ/Six Sigma) and experience with SAP, UKG and Microsoft Suite.
- Effective leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across all levels of the organization, customers, and suppliers.
- Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on "Candidate/Guest" to learn more
Health, Life & Disability - Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
- Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement - 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time offABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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