What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at Volvo Cars?
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The Quality Manager will lead and direct supervisors and manage all operations within their area of responsibility. This role will be a part of the Plant Quality Management Team and will enforce the Volvo Cars’ culture.
What You'll Do
Join Volvo Cars and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits designed with you in mind. Our programs offer choice, flexibility, and exceptional value, including competitive medical, dental, and vision plans, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and a wellness program with discounts and gifts, most of which start on day one of employment. You'll also have access to voluntary benefits and a robust retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer The Family Bond by Volvo Cars, a global paid parental leave policy covering all employees, including adoptive, permanent care foster, and surrogate parents. Additionally, employees and their eligible family members can lease a new Volvo at discounted rates through the Volvo Employee Lease Program (VELP). At Volvo Cars, our benefits extend beyond the workplace to enhance your life and support your family.
Volvo Car is an equal opportunity employer. The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
The Quality Manager will lead and direct supervisors and manage all operations within their area of responsibility. This role will be a part of the Plant Quality Management Team and will enforce the Volvo Cars’ culture.
What You'll Do
- Lead, direct and manage quality operations within the assigned area of responsibility.
- Responsible for future model launches in their area of responsibility.
- Coordinate workshop activities with supervisors to ensure that the quality objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost effective manner.
- Lead organization in problem solving method and tracking to ensure our customers are protected including validation of containment methods.
- Drive for execution of control plan and secure updating.
- Review product and process solutions for running changes ensuring quality characteristics are met.
- Owner of Stop Shipments and subsequent meetings to ensure local and global alignment on decisions taken and lead execution of plan.
- Implement cost effective Continuous Improvement tools to improve operating expenditures, manpower, etc.
- Provide leadership and training to accomplish the company’s goals and objectives.
- Provides leadership in the implementation of 5S programs.
- Provide direction, development and leadership to quality engineers.
- Deliver set objectives in accordance with the department’s Volvo Car Manufacturing System-scorecard.
- Responsible for performance of activities connected to "Year over Year" efficiencies.
- Deliver products according to specifications, using continuous improvement tools, such as 6-sigma, and with the authority to implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Build excellent relationships within the area of responsibility and with other Volvo units worldwide.
- Work towards a lean organization.
- Foster standardized work through QPS and daily coaching activities.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in automotive Quality environment or equivalent.
- Knowledge of a Quality Operating System and other quality assurance structures/processes in a plant.
- Understanding of quality engineering principles.
- Excellent skills in leadership and coaching, ability to motivate, teach and encourage people.
- 6-Sigma Competencies.
- Knowledge of customer demands and customer perception of product quality.
- Knowledge of competitors and industry standards in relation to product quality.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements in relation to Plant build products.
- Ability to articulate complex issues
- Carries out all duties and responsibilities with the utmost integrity and consistent with the highest ethical standards
- Remains flexible and responsive to changing conditions.
- Uses both logic and intuition to reach appropriate conclusions.
- Listens to others; respects their differences.
- Customer/Client Focus
- Ability to communicate, persuade and make effective formal presentations.
- Ability to utilize a PC to communicate, track trends and retrieve relevant information.
- Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Drives results: Consistently achieves results, problem solving with speed even under tough circumstances.
- Self-development: Actively seeking new ways to grow & be challenged using both formal & informal development channels.
- Builds trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Join Volvo Cars and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits designed with you in mind. Our programs offer choice, flexibility, and exceptional value, including competitive medical, dental, and vision plans, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and a wellness program with discounts and gifts, most of which start on day one of employment. You'll also have access to voluntary benefits and a robust retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer The Family Bond by Volvo Cars, a global paid parental leave policy covering all employees, including adoptive, permanent care foster, and surrogate parents. Additionally, employees and their eligible family members can lease a new Volvo at discounted rates through the Volvo Employee Lease Program (VELP). At Volvo Cars, our benefits extend beyond the workplace to enhance your life and support your family.
Volvo Car is an equal opportunity employer. The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.