Director of Quality
Job Description
General Description:
Manage company quality system so that our products and services meet the satisfaction of our customers, our market, our fellow associates, and our shareholders.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain “Continuous Improvement” philosophy throughout organization.
- Champion quality-focused team training and development.
- Ensure continued compliance with all quality management system certificates.
- Prepare organization for quality management system audits (ISO 9001:2015; ISO 14001:2015; AS9100-2016).
- Ensure compliance with safety and environmental requirements.
- Assist in maintaining all measuring equipment.
- Work with manufacturing team to achieve IATF16949 certification.
- Guide the development and upkeep of best practices across distribution and manufacturing.
- Partner with sales and other functional teams to understand customer quality requirements and metrics.
- Work with American Ring teams and customers to ensure performance goals reflect needs of stakeholders.
- Conduct comprehensive audits of all operations to verify alignment with established performance goals.
- Audit quality systems and processes for deficiencies and implement appropriate quality actions.
- Monitor all quality actions.
- Resolve corrective actions to uphold both customer and American Ring quality standards.
- Work with sourcing manager to confirm APQP meets customer expectations.
- Review/Audit APQP against customer expectations.
- Oversee maintenance of quality documents covering customers and vendors.
- Report changes in quality processes and documentation to sales, purchasing, sourcing, and production teams.
Non-conformance, Print changes, Cert Requirements, Packaging requirements
- Maintain Records.
- Collaborate with colleagues, managers, and cross-functional teams to achieve superior quality outcomes.
- Provide quality support for design and development teams.