Position: - Quality Manager

Location: - Rockford, IL

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The Quality Manager position develops, implements, and manages quality control systems designed to ensure continuous production of applications (consistent with established standards, customer specifications and production goals).
• The position supervises a team of quality engineers, quality control inspectors, and sorting department.
• Quality Manger aims to ensure that the organization & Quality Management System conforms to customer, internal, IATF 16949 and regulatory/legal requirements.
• Manage Sorting Department including working staffing plan, tracking daily production and quality issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Understanding customer needs and requirements to develop effective quality control processes.
• Devising and reviewing specifications for products or processes. Assist in setting requirements for raw material or intermediate products for suppliers and monitoring their compliance.
• Engage in inspection and testing activities to ensure high productivity and high technical integrity.
• Develop and analyze statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and to establish quality and reliability expectancy of finished products.
• Formulate, document, and maintain quality control standards and ongoing quality control objectives.
• Coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with other plant managers to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.
• Apply total quality management tools and approaches to analytical and reporting processes
• Maintain active role on internal continuous improvement teams.
• Design, develop and implement quality control training programs.
• Corrective and preventive action (CAPA, also called corrective action / preventive action, or simply corrective action) are improvements to an organization's processes taken to eliminate causes of nonconformities or other undesirable situations.
• MPR Minimum process Requirements is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating. It is a continuous process throughout a project.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a set of analyzing and problem-solving techniques targeted at identifying the actual root cause or the reason that caused the problem.
• Interact with vendors to ensure quality of all purchased parts.
• Assist in process certification
• Schedule production (Manpower and machine selection taking vacation into account)
• Inventory control (lasers, cameras, fixtures, etc )
• Sign off on weekly, monthly and yearly check sheets
• Track daily quality issues found by sort machines
• Track daily production targets
• Annual review & control for each sorting associate

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate degree or 10 years progressive experience in a Fastener industry
• Must have knowledge in the automotive industry
• Experience with production control
• Minimum Process Requirements (MPR)
• Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• 4+ years leadership experience or leadership development training
• Reliable and good work ethic
• Remain calm in stressful situations
• Demonstrates effective oral communication
• IATF 16949 auditor (preferred)
• Intermediate level Microsoft Office Suite knowledge
• Prioritize, organize, and accomplish work efficiently
• Move quickly from task to task with minimal errors and/or omissions
• Always follow all OSHA and company safety guidelines
• PLEX UX knowledge
• You should be proficient in: Blueprint Reading, Quality Inspection Experience, Machines & technologies.
• You'll use: ERP Software, and Quality Control Software
• OSHA Training (preferred)
• Problem solving and decision-making training (preferred)
• travel up to 10% of the time with some out ofarea and overnight stays. (Audit etc.)