Quality & CI Manager

Job Description
A visionary leader in quality and continuous improvement is sought to direct Cabinetworks Group's plant quality processes and systems. This pivotal role ensures world-class products that exceed customer expectations by harnessing quality metrics, defining, measuring, analyzing, and implementing processes.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• Shape Our Future: Develop, implement, and sustain a robust quality management system aligned with our annual business plan and long-term strategy.
• Ensure Excellence: Maintain and enhance systems to meet customer and third-party specifications for all activities and products, ensuring top-notch quality every time.
• Measure What Matters: Create and maintain performance metrics to measure progress against established standards, monitoring performance and communicating necessary actions for improvement.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Keep track of industry standards from external bodies and seamlessly integrate them into internal quality management systems.
• Foster a Culture of Quality: Establish an effective communication strategy to raise awareness of quality issues across all departments.
• Lead with Purpose: Plan and manage departmental activities within agreed budgets and timelines, ensuring quality is at the heart of everything we do.
• Connect and Collaborate: Liaise with quality management and standards bodies and work closely with customers and suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve processes.
• Mentor Future Leaders: Act as a mentor for Six Sigma projects, guiding teams through problem-solving and process improvement initiatives.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• A Bachelor's degree in engineering, quality management, business, or a related field, or a relevant combination of experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in engineering, quality, new product development, manufacturing, or regulatory environments.
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills (e.g., Why 5, Fishbone).
• The ability to interpret and communicate complex statistical data effectively.
• Expertise in Process Flow Mapping, PFMEA, Control Plans, and metrology.
• Familiarity with auditing processes (System, Process, Procedure) and product auditing techniques (AQL).
• Proficient in quality data tools (e.g., Pareto charts, histograms) and experience with APQP/QFD.
• Computer literacy, especially in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

Why Join Us? At Cabinetworks Group, you'll be part of a collaborative team committed to excellence and continuous improvement, directly influencing our product quality and customer satisfaction.