Director of Quality

The Director of Quality leads the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Metal Technologies’ corporate quality systems, standards, and improvement initiatives across its manufacturing locations. The position directly manages assigned quality personnel and partners with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales, and plant leadership to improve customer satisfaction, reduce the cost of poor quality, and strengthen launch performance. The Director translates business and quality priorities into actionable plans, provides technical guidance and oversight, and develops the capabilities of the quality organization.

Plant leadership retains accountability for manufacturing execution, process control, and outgoing product quality.

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the enterprise Quality Management System, including applicable IATF 16949, ISO 9001, customer-specific, and regulatory requirements. Maintain the Corporate Quality Manual and ensure policies and procedures are current and effectively deployed.
• Translate corporate quality strategy into annual objectives, work plans, common standards, and measurable improvement initiatives aligned with business and customer requirements.
• Provide functional leadership and technical support to plant Quality Managers and manufacturing teams. Coordinate resources and
  ** escalate
  * * significant quality risks while preserving plant management accountability for operational results.
• Direct quality planning and launch-readiness support, including APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, process capability, Safe Launch, containment, and lessons learned.
• Lead structured problem solving for significant or recurring quality issues. Establish expectations for 8D, root-cause analysis, error proofing, corrective action, verification of effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence.
• Partner with plant leadership to resolve customer complaints, escalations, and complex technical problems. Communicate progress, risk, containment, and corrective-action commitments to customers and company leadership.
• Maintain common quality scorecards and analyze customer quality, internal defects, scrap and rework, cost of poor quality, supplier performance, launch performance, audit results, and corrective-action effectiveness. Drive follow-up on performance gaps.
• Coordinate corporate quality-system and process audits, layered process audit expectations, and applicable customer and industry assessments. Monitor audit findings and timely completion of effective corrective actions.
• Partner with Supply Chain and plant teams to implement supplier qualification, performance monitoring, development, escalation, and corrective-action programs.
• Standardize quality methods appropriate to foundry and machining operations, including metallurgical and dimensional controls, metrology, calibration, traceability, defect prevention, and applicable AIAG CQI special-process assessments.
• Identify systemic trends and recurring failure modes across facilities. Coordinate the deployment of corrective actions, lessons learned, and best practices to other affected locations.
• Develop and deliver training in quality systems, automotive core tools, statistical methods, problem solving, customer requirements, and quality leadership.
• Provide input into budgets, staffing, capital priorities, laboratory and metrology capabilities, and quality technology investments. Manage assigned resources to support business and customer priorities.
• Promote prevention, fact-based decisions, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly supervise assigned quality personnel, establish individual goals, delegate responsibilities, set priorities, and monitor completion and effectiveness of assigned work.
• Lead recruiting, selection, onboarding, and training of direct reports in partnership with Human Resources and appropriate leadership.
• Conduct regular coaching discussions and performance reviews, recognize contributions, address performance concerns, and administer corrective action in accordance with company policies.
• Develop individual development plans and succession plans to strengthen technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and organizational continuity.
• Balance workloads and deploy team resources to the highest-priority customer, plant, and corporate needs. Reinforce safe work practices and…