Quality Manager

Overview

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and resource stewardship for Quality in our Kearney, MO manufacturing facility. This role will lead the execution of cross-functional strategies and plans that ensure we execute the company’s production system quality control roadmap.

Successful candidates demonstrate their commitment to their team by taking direct responsibility for the safety of the people, build trust and value the experience of the team around them and look to develop the people, sets high expectations for self and others, is a change agent and an effective communicator, encourages cross-functional collaboration, and shows personal resilience.

The role reports to the Plant Manager with a dotted line reporting to the Corporate Quality Director.

• Foster a culture, including ways of working and behaviors, that is congruent with our mission, values, and success model
• Identify and implement ways of working that make quality first a shared mindset and a way of life us will be on the process, not the individual
• Ability to build strong business relationships and work collaboratively across multiple functions
• End to end quality responsibility: supplier, manufacturing, and customer satisfaction
• Support the development of the Cornerstone Quality Management System and lead the execution at the factory
• Lead and Execute process improvement projects to reduce the Cost of Poor Quality at the factory
• Develops and executes effective methods for inspection, testing, sampling, and training
• Monitor the customer satisfaction and internal metrics, drive initiatives and projects to improve quality as a competitive advantage
• Support the development and drive the execution of the Cornerstone Production System Quality Control Pillar
• Develop and maintain the Quality Prioritization Matrix
• Lead and/or facilitate team problem solving for customer and internal quality issues to find true root cause, develop and execute Permanent Corrective Actions
• Explore, identify, and execute new technologies that improve effectiveness of our quality control systems including error and mistake proof solutions

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related industrial, with preference to Chemical or Polymer Engineering
• Six Sigma certification preferred
• The successful candidate will have at least 5+ years of manufacturing experience and at least 1 years of quality experience/process or production engineering experience and at least some exposure to quality management / experience and 3 years of leadership experience
• Enthusiastic about the value/yield quality brings to the manufacturing process and passionate about keeping technical skills up to date, understanding best practices, and deploying quality systems to achieve goals and targets
• Displays a strong ability to use data to rationally analyze and solve issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to train staff
• Thorough understanding of quality control standards and methodologies
• Bi-lingual (English & Spanish) candidates are highly desired
• Requires travel domestically as needed ( < 33%)
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software

Why work for Cornerstone Building Brands?

Our teams are at the heart of our purpose to positively contribute to the communities where we live, work and play. Full-time team members receive medical, dental and vision benefits starting day 1. Other benefits include PTO, paid holidays, FSA, life insurance, LTD, STD, 401k, EAP, discount programs, tuition reimbursement, training, and professional development.

Full-time is defined as regularly working 30+ hours per week. Union programs may vary depending on the collective bargaining agreement.

Cornerstone Building Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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