What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at Teijin Automotive Technologies?
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.
Position Summary:
Reports directly to the Plant Manager, the Quality Manager is responsible for the overall development and administration of quality resources within the Huntington, Indiana plant. The Quality Manager will allocate resources to project teams and programs, correlating with customers, suppliers, corporate, and Huntington Plant employees.
This position is responsible for establishing and reviewing process controls, ensuring customer satisfaction, and emphasizing continuous improvement practices, and waste reduction. Measurement systems and inspection techniques are to be developed and maintained to advance Quality Department goals and objectives in support of plant goals and objectives as monitored and reported through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
In addition, the Quality Manager will direct activities and resources to maintain third party registration to IATF and ISO standards, which shall include being a member of the management review team and overseeing document and data Control.
Essential Job Functions:
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.