Quality Supervisor

·         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.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• 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

• 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

• Provide expert technical leadership & directing cross functional teams in the application of quality initiatives.

• Exhibit a willingness to do things differently and consistently translate ideas into actions that deliver results

• Take over from PPR process after J1 (drive closure of open J1 issues and ensure plants comply with Quality/MQGR standards)

• Develop and enhance PPR & audit checklists over time

• Perform process audits based on internal and external quality indicators, leveraging standard checklists questions - audit the entire system a minimum of three times per year (3,679+ questions for 39+ processes)

 • Review critical processes and stations daily per VOC

• 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

• 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• 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

• 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 requirements

• Serve as liaison between plants and engineering. Conduct training (development, implementation) for plant personnel on quality requirements

• Recommend and implement new initiatives to improve plant processes

• Analyze quality data from internal and external indicators to ensure calibration