Quality Manager - Plastic Injection Molding

Summary:

Morales Professional Services is currently working with a local plastic injection molding company servicing the automotive manufacturing industry, in recruiting a Quality Manager for the company. This role will lead a group of quality professionals and be responsible for developing staff, implementing quality programs, and interfacing with customers on quality related topics. The qualifying candidate will have a strong quality management system oversight background and will work with all aspects of the business to assure consistent quality of production, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a quality system that supports the maintenance of the quality registrations (IATF 16949:2016), is compliant with applicable local, state, and federal regulations and supports the achievement of agreed upon customer quality requirements.
• Manage the quality assurance and documentation control functions to support the achievement of financial objectives.
• Continuously evaluate voluntary standards, regulatory requirements, and customer requirements and adjust quality system and its policies and procedures accordingly.
• Act as management representative for all quality system matters.
• Provide the management team and others with regular reports against quality objectives in the form of a documented agenda/report.
• Conduct monthly management review meetings and issue the review minutes.
• Conduct internal audits and publish the results.
• Manage the customer complaint system and any corrective actions arising from a complaint.
• Manage the Corrective Action/Preventive Action system (CAPA).
• Manage the first article inspection, quality inspection, quality engineering and document control functions including defining activities, staffing levels, continuous feedback and timely job performance reviews, and goal setting.
• Support continuous improvement process by providing training in problem solving and improvement methodology (6S, Root cause Analysis, Process FMEA)
• Acting as key contact with customers' auditors and being responsible for ensuring the execution of corrective actions and ongoing compliance with customers' specifications.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree (B.A.), preferably in Engineering with at least 7 years of progressive experience in a quality leadership/management capacity. Strong working knowledge of manufacturing quality procedures, principles and methods including IATF 16949:2016 compliance.

• Ability to plan, organize, direct and coordinate in-house manufacturing quality program.
• Professional demeanor and ability to build rapport with customers both in person and virtually.
• Strong written, presenting and verbal communication skills
• Must be comfortable delivering technical presentations to audiences of all levels, utilizing PowerPoint and other multi-media tools.