Quality Manager

Responsibilities

• Project Quality Assurance
• Detection of deviations on a timely manner, institution of corrective actions.
• Maintaining monthly Project Quality Plan & Report (PQP&R).
• Preparing APQP phase exit documentation and reviews with corporate quality manager.
• Risk Management
• Coordinating and moderation of design and process failure modes and effects risk analysis (FMEA).
• Leading of planning risk mitigation activities for product, project or business risks.
• Customer Interface
• Customer contact regarding all product and project quality topics.
• Review of customer quality requirements and applicable standards and norms.
• Implementing design, document and process controls to ensure compliance with internal and external customer requirements.
• Planning and creation of First Article Inspection Report (FAIR) of the final product.
• Trigger the creation of the RASI (Responsible, Approval, Support and Information) chart with the project team and the business partners for assurance and improvement of the intercorporational communication.
• Testing Interface
• Collaborating on verification test plan creation.
• Test Plan Approval.
• Verification test result review.
• Actively support of the prototype build planning.
• Industrialization Interface
• Assurance of capable serial manufacturing processes under production conditions.
• Review of user requirements specifications for assembly line development.
• Participating in trial runs for prototype and serial production.
• Collaborating on the creation of the process approval file for manufacturing process release.
• Leading validation efforts to ensure that planned processes are capable of producing qualified parts.
• Supplier Quality
• Working closely with team members and suppliers to establish quality criteria for components.
• Creating all PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) orders and reviewing all PPAP submissions from suppliers.
• Cooking metrology inspection and subsequent follow up activities with team and suppliers until components are released for serial production.
• Development
• Working closely with the development team members and desired manufacturing plant personnel to establish quality assurance strategies in all phases of the product development and production life cycle.
• Leading Quality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques to ensure manufacturable, low risk, high quality products.
• Maintaining records and files in accordance to applicable industry quality standards.
• QMS Compliance and Auditing
• Maintain and improve the IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 quality management system as local responsible.
• Representing for customer or external system audits and management of necessary corrective actions.
• Planning and execution of internal and external quality management system audits.
• Provision of QMS & organizational process trainings for colleagues.

Requirements

• Four year Bachelor's of Science Degree in Engineering or Quality.
• Certified quality auditor ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 preferred.
• Experience with quality standard ISO 13485 preferred.
• At least four years experience in quality assurance.
• Expert in design and process failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), preferred knowledge of the APIS IQ-RM tool.
• Experience with quality function deployment (QFD) techniques and design for six sigma.
• Experience with quality improvement, management, and planning tools.
• Experience with statistical methods/software, gauging techniques, metrology methods.
• Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ guidelines preferred.
• PC skills, MS Office.
• Strong analytical, and reasoning abilities.
• Participative work style, ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to get along with diverse personalities, tactful, mature.
• Ability to establish credibility and be decisive but also be able to recognize and support the organization's preferences and priorities.
• Satisfactory verbal and written communication skills.
• Results oriented with a high level of initiative.
• Presentation skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills.