Description

Quality Manager

Job Summary

Plans, develop, coordinates, and directs the quality assurance program, designed to ensure continuous production of parts, consistent with established standards, by performing the following duties (personally or through subordinate personnel).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, but other duties may be assigned.
• Develops and follows all appropriate IATF-16949 and ISO-9001 Procedures and Work Instructions in the performance of these duties.
• Assigned as the Management Representative for IATF-16949 and ISO-9001 implementation, maintenance, and accreditation activities.
• Coordinates Management Review Meetings and the IATF-16949 and ISO-9001 Internal Audit Team.
• Manage, coordinate, and control all areas relating to Quality Control and Quality Assurance, including:

Ø Advanced Product Quality Planning

Ø Gage Calibration and Control

Ø Measurement System Analysis (Gage R & R) - Minitab (preferred)

Ø Statistical Process Control and Process Evaluation

Ø Control Plan Development

Ø Receiving, In-Process, and Final Inspections, including:

o Dimensional

o Metallurgical

o Destructive Testing

o Performance Testing

Ø Coordinate Measuring Machine Functions
• Monitor and report on the quality performance of our supply base, including:

Ø Raw Materials

Ø Secondary Processing (heat treatment, plating, coating, grinding, or other secondary operations)

Ø Purchased Products (components or products that may be purchased complete)

Ø Supplier Audits (System, Process, Special Process Assessments (CQI's)
• Monitor and report on all customer scorecards
• Assists in product design, review, and evaluation through the Contract Review Team
• Responsible for the Corrective Action System and reporting, including:

Ø Customer Complaints

Ø Internal Rejections

Ø Supplier Rejections

Ø Audit Nonconformances (Internal & External)
• Plans, promotes, and organizes training activities related to product quality and reliability.
• Responsible for ensuring that proper equipment and well-trained people are available to perform the above tasks.
• Has the authority to discontinue production to correct a quality problem.
• Responsible for all long-range and budgetary planning for the department.
• Ensure all safety practices are followed by all APG employees.

SKILLS NECESSARY
• VTA- scheduled generation and timecard review
• Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Power Point
• Plex Software

Ø Documentation - creation, editing, and approval

Ø Supplier - documentation creation and editing

Ø Engineering - control plans (editing and retrieval, check sheets)

Ø Quality - deviations (creation and editing)

Ø SPC - Check sheet entry, review of data, reacting to control chart data

Ø Corrective and Preventative action - creation, editing, and approval

Ø Maintenance work request generation
• IATF-16949 and ISO-9001
• Customer Specific Requirements
• Corrective Action facilitation - containment activities, toot cause analysis, implementation of corrective actions, verification
• Customer Portals - Navigation within portals, uploading of corrective action, quality reporting/scorecard retrieval, PPAP documentation
• IATF16949 and ISO-9001 Auditor training, automotive process approach auditing
• Blueprint/drawing reading and interpretation
• GD&T
• Gage calibration software
• AIAG Core Tools
• Root Cause Analysis Techniques - 5 Whys. 3 X 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, and A3 analysis

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.