Quality Coordinator

At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.

Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.

Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day.

The Quality Assurance Coordinator provides functional leadership and coordination for assigned site(s) quality processes. The position works within established quality programs, standards, and procedures and does not have formal people-management training/oversight. The Quality Assurance Coordinator ensures that GBX facility products and workmanship meet Greenbrier, customer, and applicable regulatory requirements. The role leads quality initiatives such as training, technical inspections, equipment and product validation, audit support, process standardization across functions, and corrective action development, tracking, and implementation.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.

• Leads product and process validations

• Assists with improvement initiatives and Quality Team Communications.

• Assists with the implementation, oversight, and management of the Quality Assurance Program on a site level basis

• Leads customer visits & audits

• Manages internal/external AAR audits

• Assesses quality workload needs and makes recommendations to the plant manager for resources to support facility Quality Assurance.

• Ensures process nonconformance’s are reported and entered into the nonconformance application, and handled to final disposition

• Participates in continuous improvement opportunities resulting from RCA data analysis

• Supervises and coordinates activities for quality and technical Inspections

• Ensures adherence to Greenbrier safety policies and procedures

• Contributes to the overall performance from the standpoints of safety, quality, profitability

• Manages in process inspection and final inspection audits to ensure compliance with quality program

• Facilitates root cause and corrective action processes with cross-functional operations team

• Ensures all required customer, AAR regulatory and Greenbrier standards, specifications and instruction are maintained

• Evaluates and coordinates with the Plant Manager and Functional Leaders the operational and quality training needs

The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.

• Ability to help others learn and develop

• Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information

• Ability to organize and prioritize projects and information with accuracy, under tight time frames, to meet organizational needs

• Basic knowledge of quality assurance principles, quality control processes, and documentation requirements

• Ability to communicate and collaborate professionally, both verbally and in writing, at all levels

• Successful completion of a technical proficiency evaluation within 90 days of assignment to the Quality Coordinator…