QUALITY SUPERVISOR

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Plan and assign work of Quality Inspectors and Technicians.
• Aid in maintaining customer satisfaction using plant quality assurance methods.
• Review product quality issues through direct communication with Quality Department Employees to ensure their knowledge of changes in procedures and standards.
• Respond immediately to quality concerns within or outside the plant addressing the defect, cause, resolution, and verification used to correct the concern (8D), including developing and posting Quality Alerts, developing and communicating break points to the customer as required.
• Serve as a cross functional team member with tasks such as Control Plan’s, FMEA’s, 8D’s and SPC.
• Updates as necessary an 8-D / corrective action log on supplier rejections.
• Maintain the Gage room and the distribution of measuring equipment as well as calibration requirements.
• Suggests and implements changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase safety and efficiency of the department or plant.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Maintains discipline, morale and harmonious relations among direct reports.
• Review Scrap material, disposition as necessary, develop and pursue scrap avoidance actions.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Associates Degree in Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent. Minimum 1 year of supervisory experience. 3 plus years of work experience in quality assurance. Experience in automotive seating.
• Competencies: Technical Capacity, Performance Management, Leadership, Computer Proficiency, Ability to communicate with all levels of personnel including customers & suppliers, APQP, SPC, FMEA, & 8D, Problem Solving, Blueprint Reading, GD&T skills, Problem Solving/Analysis, Confidentiality, Supervisory Responsibility.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting and on the plant floor.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to walk, stand, kneel, crouch, talk and hear.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and depth perception.