Quality Manager

Company: SMP Automotive Systems Alabama Inc
Location: Cottondale, AL 35453

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Objective

Enforce and optimize the Quality Management System

Main Responsibilities

Ensuring the implementation of and compliance with the QA management system by all the affected departments

Ensuring compliance with all the documentation systems; customer portals; complaints

Reporting on the current QA situation at all times

Error elimination measures and process optimization

Supplier support

Introduction and maintenance of modern measurement and evaluation systems QA

Preventive customer support

Audits

Ensuring a high level of supply quality by regular quality monitoring of purchased parts.

Personnel management, personnel planning and personnel development

Budget planning and responsibility for costs

Investment planning

Enforcement of compliance with the quality management system and the quality requirements

Sustained continuous improvement process actions and process and product optimization

Ensuring continuous improvement in tidiness and cleanliness

Ensuring compliance with all the accident prevention and health protection measures

Operational suggestion system

Ensuring and supporting professional education

Reporting to the plant management

Trustworthy cooperation with the works council

Promotion of the readiness of the employees to work independently in the framework of the delegated authority for achieving optimum performance

Ensuring that the “correct staff is occupying the correct position” as well as a purposeful personnel search for potential candidates

Qualifications

Engineering or industrial engineering graduate, preferable specialization in plastics /machinery manufacturing or process technology

Professional and management experience in the automobile industry

Plastics, process and coating technologies

Production methods (for example, Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Value
Stream Mapping)

Quality management systems, automotive

Measuring room technology, laboratory methods

Management techniques

Personnel management

Costs/Action control

English language skills