What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Manager position at Teijin Automotive Technologies?
Job Description
We are seeking a Quality Manager for our Conneaut, Ohio Plant.
Position Summary:
Reports directly to the Plant Manager, the Quality Manager is responsible for the overall development and administration of quality resources within the Conneaut plant. The Quality Manager will allocate resources to project teams and programs, correlating with customers, suppliers, corporate, and Conneaut Plant employees.
This position is responsible for establishing and reviewing process controls, ensuring customer satisfaction, and emphasizing continuous improvement practices, and waste reduction. Measurement systems and inspection techniques are to be developed and maintained to advance Quality Department goals and objectives in support of Conneaut plant goals and objectives as monitored and reported through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
In addition, the Quality Manager will direct activities and resources to maintain third party registration to IATF and ISO standards, which shall include being a member of the management review team and overseeing document and data Control.
Essential Job Functions:
- Support plant safety procedures and safety policies
- Conduct daily safety audits to ensure employee safety
- Establish and track quality department goals and objectives (KPIs)
- Determine quality department standards, practices, and procedures
- Ensure compliance to quality standards
- Track external customer quality rejections an internal quality concerns
- Track supplier Quality issues and performance
- Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing
- Assist in daily review of production quality performance
- Assist production and maintenance to achieve effective and efficient production of quality parts
- Schedule and chair regular quality review meetings to appraise Management of quality issues to ensure suitability and effectiveness of quality system
- Work with engineering to develop project launch strategy, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, MSA and ISO9001/IATF16949 requirements
- Work with quality engineers and technicians to document trends in quality, compare against customer standards and plant goals
- Support advance quality activities, elements and schedules
- Represents Conneaut plant at the customer in the area of quality
- Develop short and long term strategy to support customer requirements, as required
- Manage safety as an equal to other key functions
- Monitor departmental action items to ensure timely and effective correction of issues
Deliverables:
- Department and assigned plant KPIs
- Plant-level Monthly Quality Report to Corporate Quality
- Overall Quality department goals and plan
- Employee training, development plan and status report
- Annual employee performance reviews
- Customer issues and corrective actions logs
- Process Alert and nonconformance Rejection logs
Qualifications:
- Requires a BS degree from a credited college, university or technical school.
- Ten years related experience and/or training in quality supervision or manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of part layout, SPC, engineering specifications, IATF16949 and manufacturing operations, class “A” exterior body panels (preferred), and automotive customer portals.
