Area Manager - Quality

Division: BENTELER Steel/Tube 
Functional Area: Quality Management 
Career Level: Professional 
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time 
Weekly Working Hours: 40,00 
Required Languages: English 
Requisition ID: 42489 

Benefits: United States : 401(k) Match || United States : Dental || United States : Development || United States : Educational Assistance || United States : Flexible Work Schedules || United States : Health Savings Accounts || United States : Holidays || United States : Life & Disability || United States : Medical || United States : Training || United States : Vacation || United States : Vision || United States : Wealth Management Support 

 

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities—at BENTELER, we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that makes sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

 

Core Responsibilities:

• Ensure the delivered product quality.
• Implementation and development of the quality management system for the plant.
• Support QC inspections and surveillance processes.
• Management of the QA/QC team.
• Guide, motivate, assess, control and develop the staff members.
• Budget use with respect to the economic goals.
• Decision making in case of quality problems.
• Minimize operating costs from quality related problems.
• Support the quality improvement process with OCTG customers.
• Play a vital part in customer relationships, communications, and negotiations.
• Play a vital part in the management of supplier relationships.
• Act as a consultant on quality related issues and topics.
• Manage supplier quality system audits and production capacity appraisals.
• Participate in quality improvement process meetings with suppliers.
• Maintain a non-conformance reporting system.
• Customer liaison and support including the leading of plant tours if necessary.
• Identification and relationship building and management of third-party suppliers and service providers.
• Review and compliance with health, safety, and environmental protection policies according to the management system.
• Coordination and organization of the departments of quality management and the production areas.
• Analysis / evaluation of quality problems / quality management problems and claims.
• Development / review of quality objectives / benchmarks.
• Implementing of preventive/ corrective actions.
• Quality-based selection/ approval of suppliers for raw material, test equipment and subcontractors.
• implementation of internal audits.
• Compliance and implementation of the management system (processes and standards).
• Information / reporting to the management team and Plant Manager.
• Cooperation with the Production Managers (Steel & Tube mill), Logistics and Sales.
• Working with customers, subcontractors, and inspection agencies for quality assurance and support of external audits.
• Cooperation with Operations (Hot Rolling Mill & Finishing), Supply Chain Management, and Maintenance.
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