AUTOKINITON is a leading North American supplier of propulsion-agnostic, structural automotive components and assemblies. Our 100% vertical integration capabilities allow us to offer our customers end-to-end engineering, manufacturing, and in-house logistics. At AUTOKINITON, we are building a better foundation for every vehicle on the road.
AUTOKINITON is recognized by our customers as one of the top suppliers in our industry.
The Area Quality Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining Quality systems supporting our locations to achieve optimal levels of safety, quality, productivity and delivery to assure internal and external customer satisfaction.
- Provides direction and leadership to the corporate and plant quality teams and the plant leadership team consistent with company, department and plant business plans.
- Responsible for assisting in the identification, selection, training and coaching of quality and management talent.
- Assess and build leadership bench-strength and organizational capabilities as well as create a collaborative high-performance work environment.
- Provides guidance and counsel to leadership and functional management teams on a variety of issues including quality standards, problem solving, containment levels, colleague development, team building, etc.
- Provides leadership in all quality programs and processes including the development, coordination, implementation, and maintenance of quality programs, processes and services including policy development and compliance.
- Plans and delivers Corporate and customized quality services in support of plant, department and regional objectives.
- Develop and implement corporate standardization and read across activities.
- Guide the plant Quality Managers in providing prioritized direction and leadership to ensure appropriate and consistent quality standards and processes throughout the plants consistent with the Company’s business plan objectives, while assisting senior plant leadership in defining and communicating clear responsibilities for quality standards and processes.
- Guide the research, development and implementation of programs and best practices to minimize quality defects through implementation of proactive and innovative programs.
- Guide and assist in leading initiatives to assess and minimize quality risks and work with Supervisors, Managers and colleagues to integrate quality into daily work activities.
- Provide Corporate Leadership to develop, build and maintain customer relationships.
- Manage and drive corporate KPI’s, as well as customer scorecards for operational excellence.
- Audit new programs for compliance to ALP procedures
- Support Program Management & Engineering in the Implementation of the Quality Requirements.
- Support Launch of new products in the plant when applicable.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Management or Business, appropriate ASQC certification.
- Minimum eight (8) years as a quality assurance manager or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of quality tools, practices, systems and corresponding integration.
- Excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills.
- Proven leadership ability and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interpret financial and performance data.
- Familiar with GD&T.
- Familiar with PPAP, APQP, IAFT and other customer specific requirements.
- Ability to travel.
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