What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at Teijin Automotive Technologies?
Teijin Automotive Technologies is an innovative and full-service Tier One supplier with a global presence and emphasis in development for lightweight technologies. Teijin Automotive offers employees the opportunity to join a leading edge company within the composite material industry and enjoy the benefits offered by a growing company in North America and internationally.
Essential Job Functions:
- Establish and track Quality department goals and objectives.
- Determine Quality department standards, practices, and procedures.
- Establish and maintain product Quality Standards.
- Track external customer Quality issues, i.e., concerns, rejections, PPM, and 8D problem solving.
- Track internal customer Quality issues, i.e., Rejection Tags and Process Alerts.
- Track supplier Quality issues and performance.
- Work in conjunction with corporate personnel to support customers.
- Support plant safety procedures and safety policies.
- Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing.
- Allocate Quality resources to project teams, programs, and manufacturing process improvement teams.
- 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 Department 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 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 Carey 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.
- Hold supervision and employees accountable for safety activities.
- Support safety training and ensure personnel are in attendance.
- Know details of all injuries and of corrective actions taken.
Deliverables:
- Department and assigned plant KPI reports.
- Plant-level Monthly Quality Report to Director of Quality.
- Overall Quality department goals and plan.
- Annual employee performance reviews.
- Customer issues and corrective actions logs.
- Process Alert and nonconformance Rejection logs.
Education:
Bachelor's Degree Required
