Sr. Manager Quality

Sr. Manager Quality

The Senior Quality Manager provides general supervision and technical guidance to the Quality Assurance team, within a business unit. Ensures all products and services meet both external and internal requirements, including legal compliance and customer expectations. Plans and directs quality assurance activities and implements quality control policies. Works to improve the organization's efficiency and profitability by reducing waste and focusing on continues improvement processes.

Required Skills

• Evaluates workload requirements and delegates assignments to inspectors to meet production schedules
• Reviews customer requirements and ensures they are met
• Suggests methods for improving product quality, design, or manufacturing processes and facilitates process improvement initiatives
• Works with purchasing function to establish quality requirements from external suppliers
• Manages investigations and reporting
• Manages staff selection, performance, development and training processes to ensure team competencies and capabilities to reach the business goals and expectations
• Implements quality improvement activities as appropriate (e.g., Kaizen, Six Sigma) to raise the performance of the unit's products
• Develops systems, methods to measure, monitors processes and products to assure compliant product
• Ensures that manufacturing or production processes meet international and national standards

Must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work may be performed in an office or manufacturing environment. Typically, requires the ability to spend 66%+ hours each work day doing the following activities : stand for extended periods of time, walk, bend, stoop, or climb. May have possible exposure to dust, and may require the ability to lift and / or push up to 50 pounds 33% - 66% of the time.

Required Experience