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Spartan Light Metal Products · 1 month ago

Quality Assurance Facilitator

Mexico, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Spartan Light Metal Products is a family-owned company specializing in automotive manufacturing, producing highly engineered parts for electric and fuel-powered vehicles. The Quality Assurance Facilitator will supervise and coordinate quality control activities to ensure compliance with quality and production goals, while fostering a positive work environment and collaborating with various departments to solve quality-related issues.

IndustrialIndustrial ManufacturingManufacturing

Responsibilities

Supervises the activities of department team members, processes and procedures, and audits

Ensures all activities are performed in conformance to established quality standards and customer requirements

Leading analysis and organized solution to problems

Control Plan Insurance and Quality Gates Audits

Nonconformance material administration

Nonconformance material disposition

Inspection, measurement and test

Standard Work Audit

Product Audit

Process Audit

Metrology

Oversees and measures overall team performance in all areas of quality operations, including: Ensuring quality management program procedures, control plans, work instructions, set-up sheets are properly followed

Reducing customer identified defects through execution of the quality plans measured through PR & R’s, QR, etc. and externals sorts

Early detection of defects to minimize internal sorts

Team skills development in associated quality roles, interpretation of quality data, customer requirements, system requirements, and ability to convert data into actions and opportunities

Team participation in conversion cost waste reductions

Works closely with Production, Operations and Engineering to identify, solve and prevent problems affecting quality, which includes making decisions to suspend machine operations and/or stop shipments when there are quality issues and identifiable defects

Supervises audit activities by following in-process and finished product audit work instructions and by ensuring the products manufactured meet and/or exceed customer expectations

Prepares third-party audits and ongoing compliance audits to maintain continuous certification to quality system standards

Provides technical support and interpretation of all documented procedures and work instructions reflecting the requirements of plant quality system standards

Ensures department information is communicated by: Informing team members of customer, quality, product, delivery, and team performance issues and communicates solutions

Informing Shift Facilitators of critical events, problems, conflicting priorities, etc., to ensure more effective decisions can be made for the entire facility

Initiating plant-wide documentation and communication on customers’ quality issues received during each shift

Assists Quality Manager with department operations, quality system performance and reporting

Contributes to and supports the existence of a positive work environment through personal involvement by communicating, interacting and behaving in a manner that promotes productive relationships with coworkers, supervisors, customers, and others with whom such relationships are important to the success of company operations

Performs other duties as assigned

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, applicable laws, and Core Operating Values

Qualification

Quality AssuranceQuality Management SystemsTechnical Quality ExperienceEngineering DegreeManagement ExperienceContinuous ImprovementTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsProblem SolvingCollaborationCustomer Focus