Quality Manager

Our client is a premier ductile, gray, and specialty iron casting provider that designs, engineers, validates, and manufactures safety-critical components for customers in the automotive, industrial, and commercial vehicle markets. Iron castings solutions include chassis, suspension, and drivetrain components for automotive applications, engine and chassis components for heavy-duty truck engines, and large axle housings and other drivetrain components for heavy equipment and agriculture markets.

The St. Cloud foundry consists of a ductile iron melting department, two continuous flow molding lines, and batch-build core-making and final trim/grind departments. The ideal candidate has experience in Quality management in an operation similar to what is described above.

• Exhibit superior safety practices every day evidenced by outstanding housekeeping at all times.
• Extend treatment to all associates of the Company as individuals with the courtesy and dignity shown to customers.
• Exceed customer quality and service expectations through attention to detail.
• Exercise maximum care to protect the environment by fostering and supporting responsible operating procedures.
• Responsible for managing quality practices and delivering operational performance; improving existing processes by implementing best practices and systems.
• Ensure the organization’s Quality Management System conforms to customer, internal, ISO 9001, IATF
  16949, VDA and regulatory/legal requirements.
• Manage the monitoring, measurement, and review of internal and external processes that impact the performance of the organization’s objectives.
• Engage with customers, employees, contractors, and outsourcing firms to develop and maintain product/process requirements.
• Develop and lead a cross-functional team on the proper integration of Process Flows, FMEA’s, Control Plans, and FTP from initial versions through production versions.
• Support advanced product quality planning (APQP) to ensure effective product launches.
• Make recommendations, plans, and suggestions that promote continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Responsible for the problem resolution process, whether an internal- or customer-identified issue, including ensuring deadlines are met and using standard reporting tools (8D or a customer-specified variant).
• Act as an organization representative, including visiting customer and vendor facilities.
• Responsible for correspondence with customers concerning audit results, customer rejected material and other technical matters.
• Develop and upgrade the talent of the operational quality team.
• Responsible for maintaining the Cost of Quality process and driving improvement on this metric.