Quality Supervisor

Job Description

• The Quality Supervisor is an integral part of a company whose focus is to change the automotive landscape.
• The Supervisor will be responsible for supervising a group of UAW represented employees.
• He / She will be responsible for ensuring that process controls are in place to meet all corporate standards and for preventing the outflow of defects from the process.
• The Quality Supervisor is responsible for creating, implementing and sustaining vehicle control plans to prevent the outflow of defects to the customer.
• The Quality Supervisor must be a creative problem solver, proactive and steadfast in the identification and resolution of vehicle quality issues.
• The selected individual will have outstanding teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills. Moreover, this person must have unquestioned integrity.
• The candidate must have a proven track record for developing and executing standardization.
• The Quality Supervisor should have proven experience in both supplier and quality areas.
• The candidate will have a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, testing and quality landscape.
• The successful candidate must possess outstanding teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills.

• Manage day to day quality control and quality inspection activities to the assigned area(s)
• Will be required to directly supervise hourly and or SBU
• Daily auditing across all shifts to hold Team Members and Team Leaders accountable up to and including issuing discipline as required
• At times will cover other salary functions during vacations, absences and other business needs
• Empowered through independent judgment to commence or cease production operations based on quality safety and/or regulatory requirements
• Direct the workforce to follow government regulations and all applicable MQGR and Level 1 standards
• Identify need for process improvements/procedures required
• Document conditions found and identify opportunities for process improvement
• Communicate results to quality and plant management
• Plan, prioritize, set goals and manage multiple projects in a technical and business environment
• Strong communication skills to lead and support meetings at all levels of the company, including SR leadership
• Establish partnerships both internally and externally and to influence at times without direct authority
• Provide expert technical leadership & directing cross functional teams in the application of quality initiatives
• Commitment and dedication in delivering a World Class product to the consumer
• Represent the "Voice of the Customer " top plant teams
• Contribute to and drive team success by clarifying expectation and minimizing political hurdles
• Demonstrate unwavering commitment to delivering results and champion achievements
• Exhibit a willingness to do things differently and consistently translate ideas into actions that deliver results
• Perform process audits based on internal and external quality indicators, leveraging standard checklists questions
• Train and coach in their specific sections of checklist questions, expanded in future to UL and TL)
• Review critical processes and stations daily
• Report monthly process conformity scorecard for the Plant
• Review and Decision process standard deviations related to MQGR/Standards
• Monitor all new or enhanced regulatory and corporate requirements and update process checklist and lead implementation
• Assist in root cause, containment and corrective actions for all quality related issues
• Achieve timely completion of containment corrective actions (Performance action notices) Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts and utilize problem solving tools in day-to-day operations to drive issue resolution
• Provide technical liaison support between Engineering, Quality, Production and Product Design departments
• Represent the 'Voice of the Customer' to platform teams
• Establish, maintain documentation of processes and train utilizing Manufacturing tools
• Embrace and execute standardization of best practices that ensure quality products
• Document all non-conformance conditions found and identify and execute opportunities for process improvement
• Establish clean points and maintain acceptable quality standards
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of vehicle audit items
• Supervise all major aspects of vehicle inspection and analyze data for comparison to daily vehicle audits
• Supervise the auditing of new production vehicles to validate quality or identify quality concerns
• Effective supervision of all employees as assigned
• Training and coaching of salary and bargaining unit employees, both direct and indirect
• Creates, implements and sustains vehicle control plans to prevent the outflow of defects to customers
• Recommends and implements simple cost-effective error/mistake proofing strategies
• Work with Engineering and Suppliers to resolve issues that are not plant controllable
• Support manufacturing facilities with launch readiness assessments and implementation methodology for compliance to…