Head of Quality Management Plant – Automotive - USA

Type of employment: permanent contract 
Branch: Automotive Supplier Industrie / Tier 1 / Interior / Assembly 
Area: Detroit - Michigan - USA

Our customer is a Tier1-Automotive supplier group which headquarter is located in Germany. In total, the company has up to 20 production plants as well as various sales & engineering offices worldwide with about 4.000 employees. It supplies the biggest OEM’s with turnkey interior systems. The parts are developed, tested, manufactured and assembled by the company. 

For our customer we are looking for a 

Head of Quality Management Plant 

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the compliance with customer specific requirements
• Leading of quality department
• Implementation, evaluation and maintenance of CES System
• Establishing of local audit plan with consideration of corporate audit plan
• Ensure that the data for quality business indicators are collected and sent to local controlling
• Assure the 8D & QRQC processes at the plant
• Monitoring of product quality to ensure conformance to customer and product safety requirements. Ensure the fulfillment of quality norms ISO IATF / TS 16949.
• Monitoring and ensuring customer satisfaction and service
• Monitoring of supplier quality to ensure that all components fulfill their specific requirements (SQA function)
• Report on plant results according to the department indicators
• Assure the completeness and archive of all relevant products/process data for traceability and product liability
• Right and duty to block the assembly/production/delivery in case of deviation of product and/or process
• Quality Management System representative of the plant
• Release of all updated work instructions
• Involvement by plant transfer regarding the quality items
• Involvement in FMEA process
• Involvement in project launch team
• Follow up of all audits as system, product, process, environment, health and safety in accordance with ISO TS and IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 in the plant (external and internal)

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in the automotive industry in a similar position reporting directly to the management and leading teams
• Product & process knowledge
• Experience in handling customer specific requirements and controlling progresses
• Problem-solving experience
• Experienced with FMEA, ISO 14001 ISO TS and IATF 16949, VDA 6.1, problem solving methodologies (Six Sigma Green Belt preferable), Product Safety
• Computer skills
• Fluent language skills in English
• Intercultural competences necessary due to work with different cultures (customer, supplier, plant, project)

 
Do you want to be a part of a team that produces and invests in innovative products? 
We are looking forward to your spirit and your motivation to bring our customers company to the top! 

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