Lead Quality Systems that Prevent Problems Before They Start

Picture your morning walk across a busy coatings plant where customers count on flawless delivery. You start by checking overnight KPIs and a few abnormals. A cross functional huddle follows, where you coach teams on root cause rigor and prevention first thinking. Before lunch, you review an APQP gate for a new product, fine tune a control plan, and confirm GR&R data meets expectations. Your afternoon wraps with a supplier call on a SCAR, ensuring their QMS aligns with NPAA requirements and that corrective actions get to true root cause.

Why NPAA

• Earned bonus structure that includes attendance bonuses, annual merit increases, and an annual incentive bonus plan
• Time away that works: 11 paid holidays each year plus paid time off to support work life balance
• Health and retirement coverage with comprehensive health and welfare plans and a 401(k) program featuring an exceptional company match
• Career momentum through tuition reimbursement, recognition programs, and visible paths to grow within the organization
• A culture of appreciation with year round company events as part of the NPAA family

What You Will Own

• Champion a site wide quality culture through clear communication, visible ownership and accountability, and hands on education
• Own the QMS as site lead for internal and external requirements, including customer specific requirements, customer audits, internal auditing, ISO9001 and IATF16949 certification maintenance, calibration, GR&R and MSA, PPAP, APQP, controlled document management, and management review, leveraging both your team and partners across departments
• Engage early in new product introductions to ensure quality assurance and control plan adjustments are in place before mass production
• Monitor and socialize key quality KPIs and lead effective teams to investigate systemic issues and implement durable countermeasures for metrics such as Cost of Quality, Non Conforming Material Generation, Abnormals, Customer Complaints, and Expired or Off Spec Inventory Management
• Strengthen sub supplier performance by participating in sub supplier QMS audits, confirming alignment with NPAA requirements and quality standards, and overseeing the SCAR process from initial investigation findings through effective root cause determination and countermeasure implementation
• Interpret and enforce company policy and practices consistently while holding others to standards
• Lead people and processes: hiring, training, promotions, performance management, and setting departmental goals

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field preferred
• 10 plus years of experience preferred in the automotive coatings industry across Technical, Quality, or Operations roles Quality preferred
• Previous supervisor experience required
• Proven project management track record and the ability to drive business process improvements across multiple departments
• Hands on experience with compliance to standards such as ISO9001 and IATF16949
• Lead auditor background preferred
• Demonstrated problem solving to support customer complaint RCA and experience with continuous improvement and kaizen

Compensation

$89,985.14 to $149,403.00 annually. Compensation for this role is negotiable based on experience and skill set.

Additional Competencies

• Protects confidential information appropriately
• Meets strict deadlines and manages several projects at once through completion
• Operates independently with minimal supervision
• Models and promotes a harassment free environment and team based collaboration
• Meticulous attention to detail
• High proficiency in Excel, Word, and related office software
• ERP exposure such as SAP
• Manufacturing industry background preferred
• Strong analytical capability to define problems, gather and analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Thrives in a fast paced, dynamic setting and can work off shift hours to meet business needs

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.