QC Supervisor

Purpose of the Position

Lead and/or direct engineering resources in the development and improvement of processes and equipment.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Achieve low cost manufacturing, superior quality/service and improved capability/capacity.
• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May also be responsible for the unit's Performance Excellence (Six-Sigma) project portfolio, assuring the effective use of different improvement methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, DESGN, etc) toward the achievement of division or plant strategic goals.
• In this role, would assist and coach belts and managers in project selection and implementation; and advise division/plant management and leaders on the use of Quality tools, methods and processes.
• Follows standard practices and procedure in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Work is reviewed by management to measure meeting of objectives.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results will cause delays in schedules.
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, outside customers and functional peer groups at management levels.
• Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects/schedules, etc.
• Encompasses the application of scientific and technological principles concerned with the integrity of manufactured products and processes from an engineering standpoint, esp. design specifications, testing procedures, and minimum quality standards.

Education & Experience

• B.S. or equivalent technical degree
• TRAINING ALIGNED WITH MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING INSTITUTE LEARNING JOURNEY

Required Skills

• Track record of delivering results.
• Broad manufacturing and engineering experiences
• Project leadership (scope to implementation)
• Coaching and developing junior engineers/technicians