Senior Role - Plant Quality Management (9-16 yrs)

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Job Summary:

The Plant Quality Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the quality assurance and control processes within the electronics manufacturing plant. This role ensures that all products meet the required standards and specifications, and that the manufacturing processes are efficient and compliant with organisation regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy:

- Being the partner of the plant manager

- Ensuring the quality standards within your location

- Aligning and implementing the yearly strategy and budget with your subfunction manager

Quality Assurance:

- Develop and implement quality assurance policies and procedures to ensure product quality and compliance with industry standards.

- Supervise the inspection and testing of raw materials, in-process products, and finished goods.

- Using the authority to stop unsafe work, production and processes if the corresponding quality is not fulfilled

- Utilize statistical process control (SPC) methods to monitor and control production quality.

- Investigate and resolve quality issues, implementing corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) including the non-conformance cost analysis.

Process Improvement:

- Analyze production processes and identify areas for improvement to enhance product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

- Analyze production data to identify trends and areas for improvement.

- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process enhancements.

Compliance:

- Establish and maintain quality documentation, including quality manuals, procedures and work instructions based on global standard processes.

- Ensure that all manufacturing processes comply with relevant regulations and standards, including ISO 9001 and other industry-specific certifications (ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO27001).

- Conduct regular audits of the manufacturing processes to ensure adherence to quality standards.

- Prepare for and manage external audits and inspections.

- Ensure implementation of the QM&GCC digitalization topics

Team Management:

- Lead and manage the quality assurance & Return and Repair team, providing training, guidance, and performance evaluations.

- Foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the team.

Reporting:

- Steering of KPI monitoring

- Generate & present detailed quality reports, including key performance indicators (KPIs), trend analysis, findings and areas for improvement.