Quality Assurance Specialist

"We connect science to life for a better future."

LG Chem will become a world-class corporation that creates new value for our customers based on "science," beyond "chemistry."

LG Chem America Advanced Materials, Inc. (LGCTA) is actively searching for a Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team in Clarksville, TN. The Quality Assurance Specialist will be an individual contributor reporting to the Quality Manager. The Quality Assurance Specialist will handle QS (Quality System) related tasks.
The primary responsibilities for the QS Specialist will focus on handling certification audits for the quality management system, conducting internal audits.

This position is based full time in Clarksville, TN and is not a remote role.

• Plan and coordinate external certification audits (e.g., IATF 16949, VDA 6.3), including documentation review, audit logistics, and corrective action management.

• Lead the preparation and execution of external certification audits (e.g., IATF 16949, VDA 6.3), ensuring compliance and addressing audit findings.

• Ensure readiness for external certification audits (e.g., IATF 16949, VDA 6.3) by managing pre-audit assessments, documentation updates, and follow-up actions.

• Conduct QSA (Quality System Audits) to assess quality management system compliance and drive continuous improvement.

• Conduct QPA (Quality Process Audits) to evaluate manufacturing and quality processes, ensuring adherence to standards.

• Conduct PA (Product Audits) to verify product quality and compliance with specifications.

• Conduct TA (Thematic Audits) to identify recurring quality issues and implement targeted improvements.

• Document audit results, analyze trends, and oversee corrective and preventive actions.

• Collect, analyze, and report Appraisal Cost (A-Cost) related to inspection, testing, and quality control activities.

• Collect, analyze, and report Prevention Cost (P-Cost) associated with training, process improvements, and preventive measures.

• Collect, analyze, and report Failure Cost (F-Cost) from internal/external defects, rework, warranty claims, and scrap.

• Identify cost reduction opportunities and implement improvement initiatives to optimize quality expenses.

• Define and establish key quality KPIs aligned with business objectives.

• Periodically review the relevance and effectiveness of quality KPIs.

• Monitor, analyze, and report KPI performance trends to management.

• Develop and implement corrective action plans for KPIs that do not meet targets, ensuring continuous improvement.

• Quality Focus:
  Ensure that all work throughout the organization, by operators and technicians is performed with excellence and to high standards for quality and integrity.

• Engineering Review, Decision Making& Analysis:
  Knowledge of and ability to use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions and/or reaching conclusions. Ability to make decisions and take action consistent with available facts, constraints, and anticipated consequences. Identify issues, obtain relevant information, relate and compare data from different sources, and identify alternate solutions.

• Quality Technical Knowledge: – Understand quality theories that encapsulate the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment; ability and understanding of quality theories to approach several different quality assurance and controls processes holistically.

• Document Control:
  Maintain a systematic approach for managing documents, keep up with industry standards and practices, as well as any new regulations or guidelines that could affect our product.

• Training:
  Knowledge on how to train production personnel on new processes and/or new equipment procedures that may be necessary.

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Material Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in…