Director Quality Operations

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Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Director of Quality Operations & Engineering? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join the Panasonic Energy team today!

• Lead and manage the Quality Operations and Quality Engineering organizational activities and established priorities to meet company and department goals and objectives.
• Develop high performing team and future leaders by coaching and improving individual capability through performance management systems, processes, and talent acquisition.
• People leader responsible for maintaining and improving employee morale to minimize attrition.
• Establish and monitor the team’s performance ensuring aligned KPIs to the organization’s strategic objectives and with all other functional groups while ensuring compliance to company policies.
• Plans and administers department budget, capital expenditures and direct/indirect labor costs by maintaining inventory and head count controls.
• Reviews and leads reporting of company performance data (sales, profitability, productivity, quality, finances, staffing, etc.) utilizing this data to make department structure and strategy recommendations in support of the business.
• Leads the establishment of company Business Plan KPI targets for Quality across all business units, drives accountability of business units to achieving Business Plan and escalates risk to Sr. Management quickly.
• Leads Quality Engineering continuous improvement cost avoidance projects to reduce total cost of quality, optimize processes efficiency and decrease non-conformance.
• Champion design to quality principals and quality first behaviors, transparency, and collaboration to internal and external stakeholders.
• Assure compliance and continuous improvements to all quality management systems as well as the integration with other management systems such as, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, etc. required for all vehicle manufacturers suppliers.
• Develop and execute continuous improvement plans on standards, methods, metrics, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision, accuracy, and reliability of our product and equipment.
• Lead failure investigation and corrective action for production, quality, and customer related failures, and facilitate customer quality & reliability interactions.
• Drive on-time root cause analysis and corrective preventive actions to resolve equipment design and product design deficiencies.
• Be a key player in the local leadership team for all issues by providing leadership during problem resolution events, such as S1, F1, and management of change opportunities.
• Champion and support all corporate Quality initiatives and core business processes such as Hoshin, Obeya, 4M, QRRPR.
• Ability to travel as required of the position and other duties as may be assigned.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred

Education

• Basic/
  
  Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Reliability, Continuous Improvement, or related supply chain and manufacturing field.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years minimum Quality & Reliability experience required in high volume manufacturing (battery, automotive, semiconductor, medical devices at 1M+ units per day).
• Experience utilizing quality management tools including statistical decision-making methods, process capability analysis, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) and Design of Experiments (DoE).
• Experience in continuous improvement and structure problem solving techniques and tools such as 8-D, fishbone, FTA,…