Quality Manager

The Dürr Group is one of the world's leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with outstanding automation expertise. Products, systems and services offered by Dürr enable highly efficient manufacturing processes in different industries. Business with automobile manufacturers and their suppliers accounts for approximately 55% of Dürr's sales. Other market segments include, for example, the mechanical engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical industries and the woodworking industry.

The Dürr Group operates in the market with five divisions:

• Paint and Final Assembly Systems: paint shops and final assembly systems for the automotive industry
• Application Technology: robot technologies for the automatic application of paint as well as sealants and adhesives
• Clean Technology Systems: exhaust-air purification systems and energy efficiency technology
• Measuring and Process Systems: balancing systems as well as assembly, testing and filling technology
• Woodworking Machinery and Systems: machinery and equipment for the woodworking industry

Position Summary: In this role, you'll provide strategic leadership and day-to-day direction to help the team achieve both daily, monthly and annual quality goals. It's a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact while driving continuous improvement and excellence across the departments.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Set goals, monitor progress, and ensure accountability for teams and individual members
• Accountable for managing resources to ensure key quality metrics are met
• Collaborate with internal and external customers' quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design
• Make recommendations to modify customer part specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production
• Provide engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques
• Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources
• Effectively communicate and reinforce company commitment to quality improvement efforts
• Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes. Review and analyze results. Recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow up to verify effectiveness
• Participate and coordinate with other departments (i.e.: Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Logistics, Operations, etc.) product Quality planning activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new systems
• Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action
• Participate directly within internal and external customer feedback systems; drive improvement plans where necessary
• Assist the Purchasing team in the improvement of supplier standards and drive their implementation into the supply base
• Lead and or conduct on site supplier evaluations both before supplier selection and after.
• Oversee the implement risk-based inspection strategies, leveraging internal process and supplier histories and data analytics to optimize efficiency.
• Lead local efforts aligning with ISO quality certifications and ensure ongoing recertifications and compliance.
• Lead regional efforts by partnering with other division leaders to ensure ongoing ISO certifications and compliance. Monitor group adherence to business operating system (BOS) as established by company leadership team.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations and/or technical discipline preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years' quality experience required
• Knowledge of certified quality management system (e.g. TS 16949, ISO)
• Customer quality assurance experience
• Previous audit experience; internal and external
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Technical knowledge of steel fabrication and assembly processes preferred
• Formal training and previous experience with part, sub-assembly, and final assembly audits preferred
• Project management experience preferred
• Certified Quality Engineer preferred
• Background in GD&T preferred
• Understanding of manufacturing and/or lean processes is desired

Knowledge of:

• Applicable codes, rules and regulations related to the area of assignment
• Quality