| 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.
Safety, Health, & Environmental (SHE) - 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.
Quality - 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.
Delivery - Demonstrate a high level of competency in core work skills
- Meet defined goals on time
- Pay attention to detail
Teamwork - 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.
Essential Functions: - 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-conformant 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 procedures
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Education: - High School Diploma or GED
Preferred Experience: - 3 - 5 years of automotive experience as a Quality Technician(CQT and/or CMI)
- 1-3 years of previous experience in a supervisory capacity or leading cross functional teams
- Level 2 Certification in one of IFA-Rotorion, NA LLC Machine Centers
Specific Skills: - Advanced knowledge of metric measurement system
- Demonstrated understanding of IRNA production processes, policies and procedures
- Excellent understanding of industrial machines and gauges (various machines/equipment)
- Familiarity with lean principles including 5S, Value Stream Mapping, SPC principles and 8 Ways
- Basic knowledge of blue prints
- Knowledge of both metric and English measurement systems
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (ie Excel, Outlook) computer software applications
- Demonstrated proficiency in SAP
- Ability to read and write English
- Ability to lead and organize teams to efficiently complete assigned tasks
- Ability to communicate effectively both written and oral with all levels within the organization
- Ability to collaborate with various departments to achieve shared goals
- Ability to fully understand work instructions then train personnel with varying skill levels efficiently
- Ability to read, interpret and use a PFMEA, Control Plan and/or product inspection plan
- Ability to work outside of scheduled shift to include a rotating week schedule as part of the in-line quality team
- Understand the consequences of non-conformances to the customer
- Trained and knowledge in site safety policies and procedures
- Demonstrated understanding of IRNA Quality Management System (QMS) as applicable to assign area of responsibility
- Understand the relevance and importance of their activities and how they contribute to achieving quality objectives (UNIVERSAL per IATF 16949)
Physical Requirements: - Must be able to walk/move about a 500,000 sq ft manufacturing facility: 95% of the time
- Must be able to stand/walk/move about specific work area: 80% of the time
- Must be able to bend/reach/twist/stoop: 70% of the time
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs on a frequent basis: 40% of the time
- Must be able to lift over 40lbs on an infrequent basis: 15% of the time
- Must be able to sit at a work station: 0% of the time
- Must be able to work and operate a computer terminal: 80% of the time
- Vision is required to analyze and process work; and to work on computer terminal/machine centers, etc
- Hearing is essential for safety reasons; and to communicate with employees, supervisors, managers, vendors, suppliers and customers via conversation, group meetings, and/or phone conferences
- Must be able to work with paints/solvents/cleaners
- Must be able to work any shift as required including overtime as needed
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