Quality Manager

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.

• Support plant safety procedures and safety policies

• Conduct daily safety audits to ensure employee safety

• Establish and track quality department goals and objectives (KPIs)

• Determine quality department standards, practices, and procedures

• Ensure compliance to quality standards

• Track external customer quality rejections an internal quality concerns

• Track supplier Quality issues and performance

• Direct lab personnel regarding performance and material testing

• 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 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 ISO9001/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 Conneaut 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

Deliverables:

• Department and assigned plant KPIs

• Plant-level Monthly Quality Report to Corporate Quality

• Overall Quality department goals and plan

• Employee training, development plan and status report

• Annual employee performance reviews

• Customer issues and corrective actions logs

• Process Alert and nonconformance Rejection logs

Qualifications:

• Requires a BS degree from a credited college, university or technical school.

• Ten years related experience and/or training in quality supervision or manufacturing.

• Working knowledge of part layout, SPC, engineering specifications, IATF16949 and manufacturing operations, class "A" exterior body panels (preferred), and automotive customer portals.