Quality Assurance Manager

4 days ago

Wheeling, Illinois, United States DESTACO Full time
Quality Manager Job Description

DESTACO, a Stabilus Company, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance automation, work holding, and remote handling solutions. The company serves customers in a variety of end-markets, including the automotive, life sciences, consumer goods, packaging, aerospace, and nuclear sectors.

Built on a legacy of over 100 years, DESTACO offers a comprehensive portfolio of products to engineer precise movement, placement and control solutions that drive productivity and uptime for manufacturers around the world. The DESTACO family of products consists of industry-leading brands such as DESTACO Manual and Power Clamps, Camco and Ferguson Indexers, Robohand Grippers and CRL Manipulators and Transfer Ports.

DESTACO is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and operates globally through ~700 employees across 11 locations. With nearly 90 years of demonstrated expertise, The Stabilus Group is one of the world's leading providers of motion control solutions for customers across a broad spectrum of industries.

Stabilus, approaching 1.5B EUR in revenue, is headquartered in Koblenz, Germany and employs more than 7,000 team members across 34 locations in 18 countries. Stabilus SE is listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and included in the MDAX

Key Responsibilities
  • As a member of the leadership team, fosters a culture of transparency, disciplined problem-solving, high-performance work teams, and continuous improvement. Strives to ensure the appropriate team, tools and processes are in place to support these desired cultural traits.
  • Leads and promotes safety awareness with other key members of the plant team. Promotes accident prevention and employee involvement regarding a safe work environment. Ensures employees understand the safety expectations of the organization.
  • Leads and fosters the continuous improvement roadmap for the quality team. Leverages continuous improvement tools to drive continued operational improvements and ensures engagement of the entire quality team through effective communication and clear direction.
  • Leads the establishment of best-in-class quality practices, procedures, and team. Develops, implements, and leads the quality assurance plan for the plant. Participates in production planning to ensure product quality and compliance. Responsible for maintaining and improvement of the plant's overall quality systems, including certification status.
  • Develops and builds the plant quality team.
  • Defines with the Plant Manager the strategies, policies, and performance targets for the quality of all products to achieve targets in safety, quality, cost, delivery, and productivity. Leads ISO 9000 activities and ensures compliance across the plant.
  • Plans and reviews quality control across all plant departments, establishing internal quality audits and preparing for external audits as required. Approves new suppliers in alignment with the global supply chain team supplier requirements.
  • Reviews and delivers quality reports to management team to anticipate or resolve quality problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays. Supports effective data and reporting through Oracle.
  • Resolves quality issues and corrective action reports. Develops and implements ISO 9001 procedures and instructions.
  • Assists in the development of standard work, operational and working practices and observes workers including observing and leading behavior-based safety observation program to ensure compliance with standards.
  • Coaches, provides feedback to, and develops Quality management team members. Motivates and manages the quality team to achieve annual goals/objectives set at the individual and organizational level.
  • Identifies cost reduction opportunities throughout the quality organization. Leverages existing best practices and continuous improvement tools and discipline to execute process-based improvements within the quality organization, as part of the Company's standard operating system.
  • Coordinates and follow up with departments for customer or supplier visits, complaints, or other appropriate quality requirements.
Leadership Competencies
  • Attracts, Develops and Retains Talent- Creates a learning environment that recognizes and maximizes the potential of all employees. Develops high potential individuals for future strategic needs.
  • Results Driven- Produces results that exceed the strategic objectives via a combination of planning and implementation, while living the DESTACO values.
  • Change Leadership- Aligns an organization and its people to drive for improvement and adopt new, challenging directions. Energizes a whole organization to want to change in the same direction. Influences others in a mature and empowering manner.
Requirements
  • Requires minimum of 5 years of successful experience leading quality in a production environment.
  • Experience with low volume and high mix production.
  • Experience with machining processes (mills, lathes, EDM) and worked in a quality role within a machining environment.
  • Experience with CMM machines, environment, calibration, tooling/probing, and inspection methodologies.
  • Proven experience and knowledge of core Quality tools, namely PPAP, APQP and Control Plans
  • Proven experience and knowledge of data collection and analysis including gauge R&R and repeatability assessments.
  • Experience implementing lean manufacturing methodologies (Lean 6S, Problem Solving, Toyota Production System, etc.).
  • Experience in collaborating with leaders and leading teams.
  • Experience with leading and implementing the following:
    • Change Management
    • Coaching and developing supervisors and team members.
    • Performance management process
    • Leadership standard work
    • Talent acquisition/recruitment
  • Experience with Lean and Behavior-based Safety approach a plus.
  • CMM programming background (PCDMIS, MCOSMOS) a plus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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