Director of Quality

Director of Quality

Full Time Canton, SD, US

Adams Thermal Systems is a world-class leader in the engineering and manufacture of heating and cooling solutions for some of the world’s hardest working vehicles. ATS uses the latest in heat exchanger technology to provide efficient, cost-effective solutions to meet and exceed our customers cooling needs. Vertically integrated, quality driven and striving for continuous improvement, we are COOLER BY DESIGN.

We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced Quality Director to provide leadership for our various facilities and execute on our vision to be the quality leader in our industry.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the Canton Quality Department, including the development, direction, and mentoring of our Canton quality team.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and work directly with Operations and Engineering to identify and resolve quality and manufacturing issues.
• Own and maintain the effectiveness of the Canton Quality Management System and ATS Canton’s IATF 16949 certification.
• Lead preparation for and participation in IATF certification and surveillance audits, customer audits, VDA/process audits, and other quality-system assessments.
• Ensure applicable Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) are identified, understood, implemented, and maintained.
• Establish and monitor plant quality objectives and key performance indicators, including safety, customer PPM, on‑time delivery, scrap, productivity, and other business metrics.
• Serve as a primary quality contact for ATS customers and build strong working relationships with customer quality and engineering organizations.
• Lead or support customer complaint resolution, containment, root‑cause analysis, corrective action, and 8D responses.
• Provide quality leadership for new products and manufacturing process launches through the ATS Project Management and APQP processes.
• Ensure appropriate development and maintenance of Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEAs, Control Plans, work instructions, capability studies, MSA, SPC, and PPAP documentation.
• Work closely with Engineering, Production, Purchasing, Maintenance, and other functions to ensure quality, manufacturability, measurement, and customer requirements are addressed.
• Work with Purchasing and Engineering on supplier selection, qualification, PPAP approval, performance monitoring, corrective action, and supplier development.
• Utilize statistical and structured problem‑solving techniques to improve process capability, reduce variation, prevent defects, and drive continuous improvement.
• Promote a culture in which quality is owned by the entire organization rather than solely by the Quality Department.
• Work collaboratively with Quality Managers at ATS manufacturing locations in Mexico, China, and India to align quality systems, metrics, problem‑solving methods, APQP/PPAP practices, and quality expectations.
• Share lessons learned and best practices among ATS locations and support international facilities with customer, quality‑system, and manufacturing‑quality issues when appropriate.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the Canton Quality Department, including the development, direction, and mentoring of our Canton quality team.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and work directly with Operations and Engineering to identify and resolve quality and manufacturing issues.
• Own and maintain the effectiveness of the Canton Quality Management System and ATS Canton’s IATF 16949 certification.
• Lead preparation for and participation in IATF certification and surveillance audits, customer audits, VDA/process audits, and other quality-system assessments.
• Ensure applicable Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) are identified, understood, implemented, and maintained.
• Establish and monitor plant quality objectives and key performance indicators, including safety, customer PPM, on‑time delivery, scrap, productivity, and other business metrics.
• Serve as a primary quality contact for ATS customers and build strong working relationships with customer quality and engineering organizations.
• Lead or support customer complaint resolution, containment,…