Quality Manager - Farwell, MI

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As a member of the Quality Team, the Quality Manager will be responsible for leading the execution and deployment of the organizations Strategic Quality Plan in conjunction with the plant leadership team and serves as the Management representative for the Quality management system. Manages quality resources to ensure product flow consistent with established internal standards, industry standards, government regulations and customer requirements. Provides total quality leadership to customers, suppliers, and all internal stakeholders.

The Role:

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Manages the Quality / customer interface to proactively assure requirements are understood and satisfied.
• Responsible for the problem resolution process, whether internal or customer identified issue, which includes ensuring timing deadlines are meet and using standard reporting tool (8D or customer specified report variant).
• Responsible for Customer Scorecard performance and engaging the applicable department or area in root cause/corrective action activity if not meeting requirements.
• Manages the Plant Quality Department which includes:
• Day to day activity
• Employee recruitment
• Budget
• Resource allocation
• Employee assessment and development
• Supplier Management
• Leads, implementation, and verification of the appropriate Quality Management Systems throughout the operation, providing quality leadership and support in the development and launch of new products, processes including leading Plant APQP activity and Customer and Supplier PPAP.
• Oversees and/or may lead the auditing of internal Quality Systems and industry quality system requirements (i.e., TS16949, VDA, ISO 9001, etc.)
• Monitors production part approval (PPAP) documentation to assure that customers’ requirements are met in new or modified products and processes.
• Analyzes organizational Quality Metrics and performs managerial reviews to evaluate results and recommend action plans to close gaps at an operational level.
• Ensures functional participation in product development and launch activities including identification of customer expectations, manufacturing, and ongoing production test support.