Quality Manager

US Farathane is seeking a Quality Manager who will develop and maintain an effective quality system and achieve optimal levels of quality, productivity and safety to assure internal and external customer requirements that are met.

US Farathane has been a leading source of plastics manufacturing, supplying the automotive industry for over 40 years. Through highly technical research and development, coupled with a diverse and knowledgeable Management Team and dedicated Associates, US Farathane has continued to grow each year. We provide customers with a wide range of full-service support from black box design concepts to highly engineered composites, TPE’s and TPO’s as well as specialized extrusion and compression technologies.

Job Description:

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Review customer and engineering requirements to ensure successful new production launch by compliance to APQP and PPAP activities.
• Administrator direct supervisory responsibility for the plant quality department team included, selection, hiring, training, performance evaluations and work schedule.
• Ensure the purchase product in process or finished, is inspected according to the procedures established in the QMS.
• Educate, train and coach employees by identifying relevant quality training needs
• Member of the APQP project teams with responsibility to contribute to the successful launch of projects.
• Develop and lead best practices and Lessons Learned to the plant level.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement efforts companywide in order to improve the overall quality while improving efficiency and productivity.
• Track the QMS required quality metrics and develop action plans to achieve green metrics.
• Review customer complaints and initiate effective root cause analysis and irreversible corrective actions to prevent recurrence and satisfy the customer.
  
  
  

Leadership:

• Drive and support plant activities toward achieving customer certifications and industry quality registrations.
• Oversee the activities of required customer actions to assure timely and proper responses.
  
  
  

Quality Management System:

• Drive overall plant integration and implementation of the USF QMS to prevent defects and satisfy customer requirements.
• Serve as a driver and coordinator for internal quality system audits and corresponding corrective action and improvement activities.
  
  
  

Management:

• Report abnormal quality KPI's and customer scorecards and their related corrective/preventive actions to General Manager and Corporate Quality.
• Work closely with other managers to address the day to day problems and opportunities to review and improve product and process quality.
• Occasionally travel to customer assembly plants to review products and interact with customer personnel.
  
  
  

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience and supervisory experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Plastics injection molding and assembly background
  
  
  

Benefits

• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Medical Insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discounts
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program