What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Manager position at Lakeside Recruiting Solutions?
Quality Manager
The Quality Manager oversees all Quality Assurance functions at the Plant level throughout the product launch and life-time cycles and serves as a cross functional team leader, working closely with internal and external customers to ensure products and processes meet predetermined specifications.
Responsibilities
- Establish procedures for maintaining high standards of quality, reliability, and safety.
- Determine and enforce quality and safety requirements in accordance with real company needs, based on current regulations and product development.
- Evaluate and develop improved techniques for the control of quality, reliability, and safety.
- Directly responsible for implementation and maintenance of the company quality system, reporting on the performance of the quality system for review and as a basis for improvement of the quality system.
- The Quality Manager also has responsibility to act as liaison with external parties on matters relating to the quality system.
- Oversees APQP activity at the plant level regarding the development and documentation of Process Flow, PFMEA and the Control Plans.
- Oversees the preparation, implementation, and maintenance of Quality Control work instructions.
- Oversees the corrective action process.
- Oversees and leads quality improvement by establishing methods of data collection, control charting, dimensional inspection, documentation, or other experimental design techniques.
- Manage the monitoring, measurement, and review of internal processes, especially those that affect the quality of the organization's products.
- Report to top management on the performance of the QMS (e.g., results of quality audits, corrective actions), including the need for improvement.
- Work with customers, employees, contractors, and outsourcing firms to develop product requirements as needed.
- Actively participate in production meetings with the sales, engineering, programming and manufacturing teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred (or equivalent years' experience)
- Previous experience in a Quality related leadership position within manufacturing
- Proficient in all quality application tools including SPC, APQP, PPAP (process flow, FMEA, Control plans, Gage R&R, Capability analysis).
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, tools and application in an automotive setting is beneficial
Salary : $100,000 - $115,000
