Quality Manager

A global manufacturing organisation is wishing to appoint a Quality Manager to develop and manage the Quality Management functions and systems with the objective of ensuring and assisting the business to achieve its strategic objectives. **Responsibilities/Accountabilities** - Understand customer quality requirements and ensure the business delivers accordingly. - Develop and maintain effective relationships with our customers. - Ensure all warranty or replacement orders are 100% conforming to requirements within the agreed timelines. - Identify route cause of product failure in the market and implement corrective and preventative actions. **Sustainability, NPI, VA/VE** - Contribute and conform to sustainability requirements. - Support and implement NPI and VA/VE activities as per project timelines. - Ensure all NPI and VA/VE projects conform to Quality specifications or requirements. **Financial Effectiveness** - Ensure that the Department meets all legal requirements and complies with the GROUP standard of ethics. - Manage and control resources to ensure adherence to approved budgeted/forecast expenditure. - Manage non-conforming product as per requirements (weekly, scrap or rework) and implement preventative actions to achieve budget targets. - Measure cost of quality. **Quality Management, CIP and Risk Management** - Maintain Quality Management systems and certifications. - Daily recording of non-conforming product with root cause analysis. - Daily recording of Rework ours as part of cost of quality. - Ensure Goods Receiving Inspections are effective. - Develop Internal audit schedule and perform accordingly. - Plan and implement corrective actions as and when require in order to meet objectives. - Ensure that all quality defects are corrected, such set targets and objectives are achieved. - Identify risks and propose solutions in areas outside of your control. **Continuous Improvement** - Participate in 6 Lean Workshops per annum. - Drive "Lean” in your area of responsibility i.e., Error Proofing. - Drive a continuous improvement culture within your team. - Constantly seek new or improve “ways of doing” things and implement them in your department. - Support Lean or improvement activities within the team. **People and Partnerships** - Direct subordinates to achieve individual and team objectives. - Setting individual team goals to support Company Objectives. - Identify training and development needs of subordinates and implement. - Drive a high-performance culture within your area by setting standards and hold people accountable. - Value each person’s contribution, mutual respect and understanding. - Ensure open and transparent communication. - Contribute positively to the effective functionality of the Management team. - Drive suggestions from your team. - Communicate effectively to the workforce. - Ensure all activities takes place in a safe manner. - Maintains safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and regulations. **Qualification & Experience**: - At least a Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Engineering or Quality Management. - AtlLeast 4 - 10 years of experience in Quality Management. - Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. - A Good understanding of Quality Systems. - Computer literate with excellent knowledge of Excel. **Job Type**: Permanent **Salary**: R700,000.00 per year Ability to commute/relocate: - Roodepoort, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred) **Education**: - Bachelors (preferred) **Experience**: - Quality Management: 4 years (preferred)