Adecco Engineering & Technical Recruitment is currently searching for a Corporate Quality Manager for our client, a leader in their manufacturing sector, to join their team and bring their corporate level quality engineering experience to their location near London, Ontario. Responsible for developing and expanding the quality management system, ensuring products meet quality standards, and maintain standards and compliance. This position works closely with plant leadership and corporate managers to establish and improve advanced quality systems and practices across all departments and facilities. Our client is a leading equipment manufacturer in their sector, and they are experiencing tremendous growth and success. If you are a Senior Quality Manager in manufacturing and looking for your next opportunity to grow with solid and experienced company, then let’s talk.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED – Corporate Quality Manager
- 7+ years experience in a quality management role
- 10+ years experience manufacturing environment.
- Degree or diploma in quality, manufacturing, engineering or a related discipline
- Advanced knowledge of machine capability requirements and SPC tools.
- ASQ Certification.
- ISO/TS16949 management systems and internal auditing trained.
- Knowledge of the Core Tools (APQP, MSA, PPAP, SPC, FMEA).
- Skilled in basic computer applications and use.
RESPONSIBILITIES – Corporate Quality Manager
- Create, recommend, implement, verify and continually improve procedures and systems for the efficient and effective control of quality.
- Ensure that the Quality requirements of our customers are met.
- Establish long term plans for the department, equipment and personnel development.
- Responsible for the corporate quality team, and indirectly responsible for plant Quality Co-ordinators
- Develops and oversees the Vendor management system.
- Create plans to measure, report and reduce the cost of poor quality.
- Ensure that high standards of quality are maintained; ensure effective and efficient usage and compliance to regulatory, legislative and customer requirements; ensure immediate action is taken to rectify causes of poor quality.
- Works closely with Customer Service and Sales to establish and improve field-complaints and quality deficiencies and directs actions to reduce the cost of warrantee.
- Directs the development and preparation of quality documentation to support APQP, corrective actions, continuous improvement, and plant metrics.
- Interact and maintain effective communication(s) with managers, supervisors, support staff and production personnel.
- Network with other facilities and other managers to exchange information and solve problems. Instruct staff regarding adherence to quality goals and objectives. Hold staff meetings in order to make announcements, review policies, procedures and discuss quality issues.
- Make decisions about suggestions for change and continuous improvement. Respond to customer complaints. Make decisions about hiring and firing staff. Ability to train employees with the goal of empowering them.
- Produce and interpret charts and metrics for the management team and/or customers. Complete legal forms for the facility. Read minutes of meetings in order to keep up-to-date and to plan.
- Compare budgets to actual expenditures and make financial projections. Plan to reduce COPQ.
- Ability to work independently and participate in a team setting. Participate in group discussions on methods for improving work processes or product quality and the allocation of work responsibilities and goals. Meet with: department heads and supervisors (daily); team members who discuss operations, policies and procedures (when necessary); staff (periodically).
** A full position description can be supplied to selected candidates. **
APPLICATION - Corporate Quality Manager
If you fit the profile and are interested in this position, please apply with your resume as directed here, and on our company website. While we thank all applicants, only those selected will be contacted. Thank you.