Qa/cont. improvement manager

Overview:

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Responsibilities:

• Ensure company and customer quality requirements are communicated pursuant to customer satisfaction, company profitability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the review of manufacturing and testing of new product to achieve quality requirements.
• Maintain the department budget.
• Provide guidance in the implementation of testing procedures to assure quality requirements are met.
• Track root cause of quality issues, coordinate corrective action and implement appropriate adjustments. This will involve implementing a corrective/preventative action system.
• Facilitate internal and external measureable systems, such as KOM’s and present to management groups.
• Interface with customers, vendors and 3^rd party assessors.
• Direct employees engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials and products.
• Facilitate a comprehensive environmental program to assure continual product safety.
• Ensure proper usage and calibration of measuring devices i.e. calipers, micrometers, etc.
• Write and implement quality systems per ISO-9001 procedures, audits and programs.
• Design and implement process capability studies, as required to quality products.
• Responsible for sanitation, good manufacturing practice and food safety programs and inspections.
• Interface with applicable regulatory agencies.
• Miscellaneous related duties as assigned.
• Serves as back up to the SQF Practitioner.
• In the absence of the QA Manager job duties will be covered by the QA Supervisor.

Qualifications:

Qualifications

B.A./B.S. from a four year College or University or two to five years related experience

and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Be a Role Model – No exceptions from safety LSB (Life Saving Behaviors) and plant rules; What you say and do impacts everyone on your shift positively and negatively
• If you feel a task that you have been asked to complete is unsafe, stop and request additional information
• Take Two – THINK!!!, ASK!!!, KNOW!!!, safely EXECUTE
• Take immediate action to address a safety hazard
• Visible participation in pre shift meetings reiterating safety
• Daily review housekeeping with focus on your areas; don’t settle
• Daily conduct conversations with team members on safety
• Respond to employee concerns with the respect that it deserves
• Participate in EHS Framework scoring and improvement plans
• Do not communicate mixed messages. Reiterate that nothing is as important as safety.