What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at MAHLE?
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Your Role & Responsibilities
Our Head of Quality is a key member of the Plant Leadership Team, serving as a true business partner to the Plant Manager. Acting as the champion for compliance, continuous improvement and the voice of the customer, you will have overall responsibility to ensure the effectiveness & continuous improvement of the quality management system.
- Take ownership of talent management practices within the team. This includes, but is not limited to, diversity, equity and inclusion, learning and development, performance management, and succession planning.
- Plan, manage, and coordinate all facets of the quality operation to ensure outstanding supplier relationships while achieving or exceeding all elements of our customer scorecard and plant KPIs. Overall responsibility for:
- Customer Quality – establish, monitor and administer plant quality goals and objectives per corporate guidelines and customer targets, review customer complaints and ensure problem resolution
- Quality Planning – establish, monitor and administer quality APQP objectives per corporate guidelines, MAHLE targets and customer requirements
- Supplier Quality – establish, monitor and administer plant quality goals and objectives per corporate guidelines; review supplier complaints; employ problem solving techniques to develop appropriate corrective actions; ensure implementation & resolution
- Quality Management System – establish, monitor and maintain quality management system per corporate guidelines, IATF16949 guidelines and customer requirements
- Establish early warning system to ensure all customer score cards are at 100%. Regularly check progress and scorecards, and assists with developing action plans, for KPIs not meeting 100% achievement.
- Assist with the creation & implementation of organizational policies and procedures to establish responsibilities for attaining objectives. Acts as an advisor regarding key training initiatives for all Quality personnel.
- Establish long-term relationships to the customer and strengthen contact network within different customers’ organization levels. Foster professional working relationships with customer counterparts to enable early problem solving regarding customer metrics.
Your Skills & Strengths
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with increasing management and supervisory responsibility required; automotive experience is highly desired.
- Experience with IATF Audits required
- Experience in a complex manufacturing setting is highly desired.
- Proven implementation of a preventative quality system is necessary.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and statistical tools is required.
Our Offering
We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles! After receiving your online application, the interview process will typically be, a screening call followed by Personal Interview(s). For more information about MAHLE and what a career with us looks like for you, click here. and to learn more about our foundation owned technology group click here.
#DiversityMatters with our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from all social, religious & ethnical backgrounds, disabilities both mental and physical, identities (gender) and neurodivergent people.
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Your future at MAHLE
As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.
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