Quality Supervisor

Major Duties And Responsibilities

• Serves as role model for safe work practices and behaviors.
• Leads and directs the day-to-day activities of Quality Team Members and organizes workflow and scheduling.
• Develops, implements and maintains the activities of quality control systems.
• Makes recommendations for corrective action necessary to ensure conformity with quality specifications.
• Ensures finished products conform to customer and company standards and satisfy good manufacturing practices regulations.
• Maintains all daily, weekly, and monthly reports, audits and documentation as required.
• Reviews paperwork of cable orders and raw material ready for testing; discusses the testing status in the Final Test Lab, Raw Materials Testing, and Product Qualification areas; determines priorities, schedules the work, and assigns work accordingly.
• Reviews, and as required prepares safety reports, disciplinary action, weekly time and attendance reports, vacation request, output reports, and procedure changes.
• Investigate and respond to Customer Complaints.
• Reviews and analyzes quality problems cited on hold/stop tags and follows up to ensure that the corrective action has taken place.
• Interviews job applicants (external and internal) for open quality inspector jobs.
• Works with the Human Resources Departments to implement and administer the Quality Department Training and Certification program and updates training records.
• Prepares and submits weekly time and attendance reports and updates and maintains weekly employee attendance reports.
• Reviews employee’s job performance and administers disciplinary action as required.
• Schedules to maintain adequate staffing.
• Creates an atmosphere of teamwork and ownership, and works with associates to help them develop the skills required to meet business objectives.

Required Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline.
• 2 - 4 years quality experience or related area.
• 5 - 7 years manufacturing experience, with strong emphasis on Quality Management.
• 3 – 5 years proven experience in a leadership role leading and developing people.
• Able to motivate, influence, and train/develop people.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal).
• Advanced Computer Skills: Microsoft Office Applications.
• Excellent time management, setting priorities, motivational and organizational skills.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Experience in Fiber Cable Manufacturing.
• Strong background in managing labor, materials and cost.
• Knowledge of: Hoshin Kanri, SGA’s and LEAN Six Sigma principles.