Vallourec - North America · 5 hours ago
Quality Manager
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expVallourec - North America is seeking a Quality Manager to oversee all aspects of the business area quality functions. The role involves ensuring the effective deployment of Quality Management Systems, driving continuous improvement, and maintaining compliance with testing processes while developing a skilled team to achieve excellence in quality practices.
Oil & Energy
Responsibilities
Manages resources who oversee direct integration of Quality Management Systems on the plant shop floor. Ensures organization in plants of oversight are resourced properly to support QMS ownership within the plants. Ensures the QMS is a series of processes and standards that occur in the path of normal work routines and become ‘the way the plant works’, not something extra to do or only a certification required to do business. Establishes robust quality process layered auditing programs
Deploys Quality Engineering (continuous improvement) through plant quality and operational resources to ensure internal and external quality problems are corrected with innovative and viable solutions. The solutions must be verified to ensure they do not backslide. Understands the best solutions are engineered and not administrative. Mistake-proofs the operation
Works closely with the Central Quality Technical Services organization to ensure the voice of the customer is heard and issues in the field are properly deployed to ensure Vallourec’s reputation is maintained and that customer-facing quality metric targets are achieved. Ensure that good communication is maintained between the plant, the Central Quality Team and the customer on the status and progress of work related to issues. Completes 8Ds with excellence and intent to truly solve reactive problems. Trains team to identify plant quality problems proactively
Ensures absolute compliance and integrity within mechanical and chemical production testing processes and builds laboratory systems that remove the human element from data management of lab generated data to the greatest extent possible, using the latest technologies and Community of Practice for testing labs. Ensures the ISO 17025 / A2LA laboratory certifications are living within the labs and deployed properly. Regularly audits the labs to verify testing compliance and data integrity. Benchmarks laboratory performance in oversight plants to the greater global Vallourec and / or industrial network through round robin and other comparative programs
Works to simplify, streamline and improve the function of quality dispositioning processes. Works to build quality into the process itself but improves the robustness of Quality Walls and inspection processes at all needed checkpoints within the product flow. Prevents escapes. Contains non-conforming issues and builds out processes that supports protecting the customer
Qualification
Required
Minimum 10 years of experience in Quality or a related technical role
Demonstrated experience in the effective use of Quality Problem Solving Tools
Minimum B.S. in Engineering or another Technical Degree Program is required
Demonstrates knowledge of proper execution of quality processes within a large manufacturing environment is required
Exhibits exemplary problem-solving capability and the ability to coach and teach the skill to others
Maintains a deep understanding of TQM principles and how they can be deployed in manufacturing
Must have or be willing to develop a deep knowledge of the processes operated within Vallourec and the impact to product quality these processes can have
Must have or be willing to develop a basic knowledge of the physical and chemical metallurgy that is applicable to the Vallourec processes to improve effectiveness in RCA and CA deployment
Position must be located at a plant that is within oversight or in the general area of plants where there is oversight for the Plant Quality Teams
Must be willing to travel to all other plants of oversight and others in the NA network as well as to customers, subcontractors, vendors and other external entities (up to 60% travel as needed)
English required
Preferred
Experience in deploying Quality within a heavy manufacturing environment is preferred
Preferred engineering disciplines are metallurgical / material science, mechanical, manufacturing or industrial
Certification as a CQE / CQM, ISO 9001 / API auditor or lead auditor is highly preferred
Servant leadership style preferred – views role as one of supporting the team and breaking down barriers to make them successful (command and control leadership does not work well for this kind of role)
Spanish, French or Portuguese as a second language is a positive
Company
Vallourec - North America
Vallourec is North America’s #1 domestic producer of premium tubular solutions primarily serving the energy markets (oil and gas, powergen): seamless Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG), VAM® premium connections, Line & Standard Pipe, Coupling Stock, Mechanical pipe, downhole accessories, and specialized welding.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
David Macek
Human Resources Business Partner
Company data provided by crunchbase