Quality Manager / Automotive Mississippi

Quality Manager – Mississippi Automotive – QE / QA

Salary $115,000 - $130,000 + Benefits & Paid Relocation to the Southern USA to a wonderful mini-metro with fantastic vibe! You’ll have everything you need PLUS more and it’s a short drive to major metros!

Global Automotive supplier is seeking a Quality Manager for their manufacturing facility. As the Quality Manager, you’ll provide direction, strategy, and support to continually improve customer satisfaction with respect to quality, cost, delivery, and service issues while meeting financial performance objectives. In this role, you will also provide Quality Leadership within the manufacturing plant and in coordination with TS Corporate Quality Leadership to assure automotive industry and specific customer requirements and standards are met. You will lead and manage the quality improvement efforts across the organization.

As the Quality Manager, your focus will be to develop and implement quality and continuous improvement strategies to support the company strategy and improve quality and customer service. You will participate in the initiatives for cost, delivery, manufacturing technology, employee morale, safety, profitability and business growth. The Quality Manager will collaborate with customers & the corporate Quality Team to ensure customer standards are met. You will be responsible for fostering an environment of teamwork and cooperation to ensure the success of the strategy and financial objectives.

Other responsibilities will include defining quality procedures, assuring automotive system requirements, provide direction and support for the Quality supervisor and engineers. This position is also responsible for ensuring management and maintenance of the quality inspection and product release programs for incoming and in-process materials and components. You will also make sure departmental budgets are established and met.

This company is very team focused. They take pride in their quality image, product performance, and customer service.

Minimum requirements for this Senior Quality Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 5 years’ of experience in a Quality leadership role in the automotive industry

• Proficient using automotive Quality tools such as QS-9000 and TS-16949, FMEA, APQP, PPAP, MSA, Process Flow and Corrective Actions

• Experience with Problem Solving methodologies such as 5 Why, 8-D, etc.

• Experience in advanced quality planning, inspection and techniques

• Experience managing supplier relationships

• Superior Verbal and Written communication skills.

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Areas of Specialization...

* Engineering * Six Sigma Black Belts * Accounting * Distribution * Human Resources

* Materials / Purchasing * Quality Engineers & Managers * Manufacturing Management