What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Director position at WKW North America, LLC?
About WKW North America, LLC
We are a leading manufacturer of high-quality products and we are looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Director to lead our quality team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing manufacturing instructions or procedures for completeness, correctness, and comprehension by production/assembly workers. They will also audit processes performed by workers relative to methods, tools, and ability to follow manufacturing instructions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and manage a U.S. PPAP process/package for anodized, stretch bent, polished, assembled, and painted components from beginning to end
- Develop and implement quality control plans/systems from scratch
- Responsible for inspections according to the quality management system/control plans/agreements with customers
- Take corrective action if the customer's agreed quality aims cannot be met
- Responsible for the execution of product audits, short audits, and process audits
- Execution of process and system audits
- Responsible for decisions regarding inspection status according to the quality management system
- Responsible for data administration and archiving of quality documents, samples, and measurement instruments
- Determination of preventive measurements to assure quality with production, management, and project teams
- Responsible for IATF certification and process
- Responsible for tasks in connection with environmental management according to DIN ISO 14001 (EHS Manager's responsibility)
- Work on cross-functional teams through PFMEA reviews and create/finalize PFMEA
- Perform/initiate capability studies and be able to interpret results
- Able to fill out PSW/AAR forms
- Interface with CMM operators on how to measure components and assemblies and fill out proper dimensional PPAP forms
- Understand customer requirements for testing and be able to interpret and fill out proper PPAP forms
- Initiate GR&R/MSA studies and be able to interpret results
- Understand plastic processes and be able to create work instructions and possibly process flow diagrams
- Able to interface with customers' Quality Engineers with questions/issues and get resolution
- Able to read customer drawings and interpret them
- Understand GD&T and be able to interpret CMM reports
- Understand part functions and be able to create GD&T schemes based on those understandings and interface those ideas with the customer
- Understanding of gages and use created GD&T schemes to build them
- Interface with customer to get gage concepts and designs approved
- Interface with gage builders to create gages and follow up on them through build and completion
- Able to review parts and make determinations if they are acceptable by meeting quality standards created
- Visit customers for color and harmony meetings
- Able to read colorimeter results
- Analyzing quality control to detect production problems
- Maintain current knowledge of quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies
