Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage plant quality, champion plant quality initiatives, and represent the Quality Department on the Material Review Board

• Involve plant and corporate management to develop practices and procedures that promote product, manufacturing process, and business system process quality

• Track, report key plant quality metrics and establish plans to consistently improve key plant quality metrics.

• Monitor trends in product and process quality

• Manage the Quality Engineering, Plant Training, Quality Auditing and Quality Technician functions at the plant level

• Liaison with Corporate Quality, Research and Development, Purchasing, Operations, and Process Development to resolve corporate-level quality issues

• Establish a continuous improvement process within the Quality Department at the plant level

• Apply analytical and statistical techniques to problem-solving and continuous improvement opportunities

• Organize and schedule laboratory testing

• Manage department expense, capital and personnel budgets and reduce cost of Quality at the plant

• Communicate supplier-related issues to the Corporate Supplier Quality Engineer

Qualifications and Experience

• Educational attainment equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in Quality, Engineering, Management, or a related technical or scientific field

• Thorough quality management experience

• Certified Quality Manager and/or Certified Quality Engineer ASQ certification is desirable

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of qc standards, practices and testing techniques

• Thorough knowledge of statistical and analytical problem solving capabilities

• Considerable knowledge of supervisory principles and leadership techniques

• Ability to manage departmental functions and programs

• Ability to communicate effectively, establish and maintain effective relationships with employees, staff, customers, contractors and other departmental representatives

• Ability to select, train, supervise, and evaluate the work of staff

• Ability to control and monitor budgetary expenditures

• Ability to institute continuous improvement activities

• Ability to operate a computer and use mainframe software or packaged word processing, database, and spreadsheet programs Ability to exercise judgment, communicate departmental standards, and ensure compliance with industry requirements