Quality Team Lead

Job Summary

This position is responsible for coordinating and leading the in-line quality team to ensure that quality-specific tasks are completed and quality concerns are contained, controlled and escalated accordingly.

• Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.
• Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard.
• Comply with SHE standards, policies, procedures & regulations.
• Use appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Promote interdependence by looking out for one another.
• Correct hazards within your control and capabilities.
• Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact.
• Engage in SHE Training.

• Follows all applicable standard work, work instruction/process documentation and established quality procedures.
• Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures.
• Identifies and controls non-conforming material.

• Demonstrate a high level of competency in core work skills.
• Meet defined goals on time.
• Pay attention to detail.

• Communicate effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Complete training in line with business requirements.
• Participate actively in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.
• Remain flexible and perform other miscellaneous duties, as required, to meet business goals, including working in other areas as business needs require.
• Work with peers, skilled trades and support staff to maintain and identify equipment in need of repair.
• Be respectful and courteous to all team members.

• Maintain safety standards for all in the area.
• Primary contact for all quality issues in the assembly process.
• Coordinate application of escalation process.
• Coordinate and assist with conducting daily quality inspection audits as part of the in-line leadership team, including maintaining documents on the floor in reference to all TS standards.
• Facilitate daily shift meetings, schedule and communicate daily work assignments, shift trainings, production status, and quality issues, non-conforming products to associates to achieve daily production schedules and targets.
• Communicate information related to safety, quality, non-conforming products, production and scrap to incoming shift coordinator and/or supervisor.
• Respond to, track, and report all quality issues that occur in the assembly process during designated shift.
• Train all associates to documented standard work instructions; conduct routine audits ensuring standard work instructions are followed.
• Ensure production and quality associates complete needed inspections and document accordingly.
• Perform troubleshooting for out-of-control conditions (e.g., inspection and supplied part characteristics).
• Work with quality leadership to improve in-line processes and containment procedures with an emphasis on reduction of non-conform ant material.
• Hold and/or stop shipments if product does not conform to IFA quality standards and customer requirements.
• Override any decision to ship non-conforming products.
• Perform document control activities.
• Remain up-to-date on all tasks and processes required of the in-line quality team.
• Complete any quality assurance requirements as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring completion of timely, objective, and accurate production quality end-of-shift reports daily.
• Continuously work on continuous improvement processes, including recommending measures to improve quality methods, documentation practices and gauging equipment; suggest changes in working conditions and use of gauges/equipment to increase efficiency and accuracy of quality methods, procedures, or worker performance standards.
• Assist engineering with problem solving projects and prototype/sample production.
• Assist quality associates and production leadership in problem solving and decision making for attribute/variable characteristics.
• Work with Quality Management to obtain/maintain an ISO/IEC 17025 compliant quality management system as well as other quality requirements related to manufacturing processes.
• Comply with IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and customer requirements.
• Comply with organizational policies and procedures.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED

• 3 - 5 years of automotive experience as a Quality Technician (CQT and/or CMI).
• 1-3 years of previous experience in a supervisory capacity or leading cross-functional teams.
• Level 2 Certification in one of IFA-Rotorion, NA LLC Machine Centers.

• Advanced knowledge of metric measurement system.
• Demonstrated understanding of IRNA production processes, policies and procedures.
• Excellent understanding of industrial machines and gauges (various machines/equipment).
• Familiarity with lean principles including 5S, Value Stream Mapping, SPC principles and 8 Ways.
• Basic knowledge of blueprints.
• Knowledge of both metric and English measurement systems.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, Outlook) computer software…