Division: AUTO - PPF Hollis

% of Travel Required: None

Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Job Description:
Advocate and support the Corporate WIN Strategy by managing the quality operations in the assigned Value Stream. Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards for products and processes. Provides statistical information for quality improvement by gathering data on trends and root cause analysis. Responsible to guide technical evaluation, analysis and related data acquisition processes to ensure plant quality objectives are achieved.

Job Requirement:

• Assesses quality performance (or cost-of-quality) using statistical and analytical methods.  Devises and implements various methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision, reliability and accuracy of products, processes and production equipment.
• Develops and establishes quality systems and procedures, inspection plans, quality performance trends, statistical plans, cost estimates and technical quality plans for proposals. 
• Ensures that project and/or process control documentation is compliant with requirements and/or contract.
• Assesses the cost of, and determines the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications by performing statistical analyses.
• Provides input on quality to product development teams.
• Identifies quality performance, trends and corrective action by coordinating with customers and suppliers. Ensures compliance to specified quality requirements by performing in-house and supplier audits and surveys. Develops and initiates programs to improve supplier performance.
• Prepares reports by collecting, interpreting, analysing and summarizing data and making recommendations. Analyzes proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Participated in failure analysis and corrective action investigations.
• Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continuous improvement and key lean manufacturing/production principles and techniques to critical areas of production.
• Represents division by interfacing with customers, assisting with internal and external audits. 
• Develops and coordinates corrective action procedures and plans. 
• Communicates and educates Value Stream Team on matters requiring specialized knowledge of quality functions, ie Production Approval Process (PPAP), Advanced Product Quality Process (APQP) and document control. Makes quality related customer and vendor visits and contacts as required.

Equal-opportunity/affirmative-action employer

Other Skills:
Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through two or more years of related experience. Thorough knowledge of state-of-the-art inspection and quality inspection and quality engineering/assurance techniques, procedures, instruments, equipment, theories, principles and concepts and general business operations.