Quality Engineering Supervisor

Role Purpose

Lead and direct engineering resources in the development and improvement of processes and equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve low cost manufacturing, superior quality/service and improved capability/capacity.
• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May also be responsible for the unit's Performance Excellence (Six-Sigma) project portfolio, assuring the effective use of different improvement methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, DESGN, etc) toward the achievement of division or plant strategic goals.
• In this role, would assist and coach belts and managers in project selection and implementation; and advise division/plant management and leaders on the use of Quality tools, methods and processes.
• Follows standard practices and procedure in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Work is reviewed by management to measure meeting of objectives.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results will cause delays in schedules.
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, outside customers and functional peer groups at management levels.
• Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects/schedules, etc.
• Encompasses the application of scientific and technological principles concerned with the integrity of manufactured products and processes from an engineering standpoint, esp. design specifications, testing procedures, and minimum quality standards.
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Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Track record of delivering results.
• Broad manufacturing and engineering experiences
• Project leadership (scope to implementation)
• Coaching and developing junior engineers/technicians.
• 5 years in similar roles.
• Advanced English.
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Experiences/Education - Desired

• Green Belt certification.
• Experience across multiple organizations/plants
• Experience in process engineering
• Knowledge of manufacturing accounting and control
• Knowledge of manufacturing excellence tools (AME, KT, Lean)
• Experience with industrial labor relations (union facilities)
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration