What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance / Purchasing Manager position at Gemini Group, Inc.?
Title: Quality Assurance / Purchasing Manager
Reports To: Plant Manager
Status: Full-Time/Salary (40-45 hours/week; additional hours as needed to support department and individual goals).
Job Requirements
To ensure that the appropriate quality systems and procedures are in place, allowing for the products of the organization to meet or exceed customer expectations, as well as to purchase and maintain a perpetual inventory of all materials and supplies needed to ensure continuous production operations.
Essential Job Functions
Reports To: Plant Manager
Status: Full-Time/Salary (40-45 hours/week; additional hours as needed to support department and individual goals).
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, or 4-6 years related experience, or a combination of education and experience
- Full knowledge of IATF-16949/ISO 9001
- Fully trained in Core Tools: PPAP 4th edition, 3/06-APQP 1st edition, 2/95-FMEA 3rd edition, 7/01-MSA 2nd edition 2/95 and SPC 2nd edition, 7/05
- Advanced computer skills (Microsoft office)
- Exceptional Customer Service Skills
- Advanced organizational skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Plastic Automotive Industry experience
- 8-D/Problem Solving Training
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Shanin Red X
- Blueprint Reading Skills
- AS400/Database Experience
To ensure that the appropriate quality systems and procedures are in place, allowing for the products of the organization to meet or exceed customer expectations, as well as to purchase and maintain a perpetual inventory of all materials and supplies needed to ensure continuous production operations.
Essential Job Functions
- Direct problem-solving activities, based on customer rejections/complaints, and respond to customer concerns.
- Direct activities which ensure product and raw material conformance.
- Coordinate, monitor, and verify effectiveness of process/product improvement activities and corrective action plans.
- Provide data for the Cost-of-Quality tracking program, using results to prioritize problem solving and continuous improvement activities. Provide information and create quality graphs.
- Oversee PPAP activity and ensure PPAP timeliness
- Perform on-line inspections for quality, packaging, labeling, and overall adherence to quality standards
- Schedule and oversee all internal audit functions and act as audit manager
- Maintain Quality and Procedure manuals and related work instructions for the IATF-16949 system
- Manage and conduct all Customer audits
- Member of QOS team. APQP team and Management Staff team.
- Supplier surveillance, including surveys, annual audits, and raw material audits.
- To perform duties of the management representative outlined in the Quality System Manual.
- Supervise quality document control, including blueprints and quality records.
- Manage all Customer Websites, all accesses and applications.
- Travel domestically and internationally as required to address customer concerns.
- Review Material Requirement Planning Reports (MRP) for anticipated production supply needs.
- Responsible for issuing incoming defective material reports to suppliers and returning any defective materials.
- Issue Purchase Order Numbers for raw material within CMS.
- Obtain price quotes for quote coordinators, engineering, and pre-production.
- Quarterly evaluation of Supplier performance.
- Annually review Suppliers and maintain the Approved Supplier list.
- Weekly physical inventories of purchased goods to ensure accuracy within CMS.
