Divisional Quality Manager

Ten years diverse professional and managerial experience including financial/budget responsibility, management leadership, and strategic decision making/leadership in a manufacturing environment. Provides leadership and direction for all members of the Quality and Warranty team, and coordinates the team's efforts within the division to achieve customer, and business, goals and objectives.

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What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary:

Transforming mobility. Making automotive technology that is smarter, cleaner, safer and lighter. That's what we're passionate about at Magna Electronics, and we do it by creating world-class Electronic systems. We are a premier supplier for the global automotive industry with full capabilities in design, development, testing and manufacturing of complex Electronic systems. Our name stands for quality, environmental consciousness, and safety. Innovation is what drives us and we drive innovation. Dream big and create the future of mobility at Magna Electronics.

Job Responsibilities:

POSITION SUMMARY:

Direct responsibility for managing the daily operations of the Quality department. Leads the quality team by creating and implementing quality management objectives and implementing policies and procedures to ensure key objectives are met. Ensures that organizational quality objectives are successfully achieved. Assists the General Manager and Assistant General Manager in maintaining a plant wide commitment that the highest quality product possible is manufactured.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in engineering field with understanding of advanced quality engineering practices, principles, and processes. Must have thorough and complete knowledge of respective field.
• Ten years diverse professional and managerial experience including financial/budget responsibility, management leadership, and strategic decision making/leadership in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication, ability to lead and manage several large and complex projects simultaneously. Must have experience with past project financial responsibilities. Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate others through support, training, etc.
• Ability to work with internal and external contacts at all levels within the organization. Able to represent the company in a professional manner with customers and suppliers.
• Leadership and management skills in support of company management systems and philosophies. Must be able to develop and lead a cohesive team.
• Ability to thoroughly research, recommend, and oversee implementation of new products, materials, processes, etc. and presents information.
• Ability to work on long-term assignments, broad in nature, using a high level of originality and ingenuity. Must be able to work independently with some latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
• Coordinate the introduction of new products. This includes establishing Gantt timing plans, process FMEA's, Advanced Quality Plans, Dimensional Control Plans, and Process Control Plans, among others.
• Completion of customer-required initial sample requirements. Examples include PPAP, ISIR, FSW, PSW, etc.
• Interface with external customer quality related issues as required.

DUTIES:

• Provides leadership and direction for all members of the Quality and Warranty team, and coordinates the team's efforts within the division to achieve customer, and business, goals and objectives. Establishes current and long range objectives, plans, and policies in support of division objectives, and directs resources to achieve objectives. Monitors performance against plan and ensures that goals are met.
• Responsible for professional development of Magna Electronics Quality and Warranty team throughout the division.
• Maintains appropriate contact with customers to ensure that Quality performance is meeting objectives. Responsible to assure that customer issues are appropriately championed to assure quick, accurate issue resolution and customer satisfaction with Magna Electronics' response.
• Maintains appropriate level of staff necessary to meet business goals and objectives. Monitors productivity of groups and individuals, makes changes where needed.
• Responsible to assure that quality systems meet or exceed IATF 16949 standards within the division. Responsible to assure that second and third party system audits are conducted per schedule, and that corrective actions are completed on a