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 to include 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, to include assisting quality leadership in 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 in order 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 (ie inspection and supplied part characteristics)
• Works with quality leadership to improve in-line processes and containment procedures with an emphasis on reduction of non-conform ant material
• Hold and/or stops shipments if product does not conform to IFA quality standards and customer requirements
• Override any decision made to ship non-conforming products
• Perform document control activities
• Remain up-to-date on all tasks and process 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
• Consistently works on continuous improvement processes to include 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
• Works together with Quality Management to obtain/maintain an ISO/IEC 17025 compliant quality management system as well as other quality requirements related to manufacturing processes
• Complies with IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and customer requirements
• Complies with organizational policies and…