Group Leader Quality Assurance (Gca)

Description

This job will require working various shifts, overtime, and some off-shift production support.

The Role:

Responsible to supervise and direct a medium group of hourly employees.  The candidate ensures their teams adhere to all established quality standards and flawless execution of the GM Global Quality Manual.  They will have responsibilities for team-based problem solving and developing cross-functional work groups to resolve quality defects. This team-based company expects Quality Group Leaders to lead the development and maintenance of manufacturing quality plans and to support the development of processes allowing the manufacturing complex to achieve all defined quality, schedule and cost requirements in a safe manner. This Quality work assignment scope includes, but not limited to, execution of in-line product inspection, completed vehicle inspection and all corporate quality requirements.

What You'll Do (Essential Functions):

• Promote safe work practices and achieve objectives for ergonomics, health and safety and housekeeping.
• Maintain awareness of quality standards, global customer audit manual, communicate department quality goals and leverage resources to solve quality problems.
• Understand & Execute compliance to Design Tolerance Standard (DTS), and Global Customer Audit (GCA) Line Segments
• Ensure product integrity by execution of standardized work of all direct reports.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with employees, union and management.
• Bring leadership skills that help develop teams.
• Strong problem solving skills (utilizing data).
• Manage, Track, & Issue Voice of the Customer (Fast Response) Problem Solving Tasks
• Implement/follow systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues.
• Motivate, train and develop employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods.
• Facilitate/Lead daily plant leadership GCA meeting
• Influence their peers to accomplish plant goals.
• Coordinates input from internal/external customers to better understand customer needs and/or perceptions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to implement and apply GMS principles to both operations and maintenance.
• Control costs and achieve productivity improvements.
• Leads Problem Solving for First Time Quality, Global audits and Top Warranty Items.
• Supports manufacturing in the development of inspection methods and standards for control of non-compliant material.
• Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continuous improvement and key lean manufacturing/production principles and techniques to critical areas of production.
• Provides analysis of current and potential waste and makes recommendations to mitigate costs and risk.
• Ensures the manufacturing site is compliant to all procedural and compliance requirements.
• Understand and consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union.
• Utilize human resources in accordance with corporate policies and procedures and government regulations.
• Provide input to payroll and perform other administrative tasks as required.

Qualifications

• High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Corporate and divisional quality and reliability, standards, policies and procedures.
• Ability to use standard business applications software and/or specialized data analysis tools.
• Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement techniques to quality and manufacturing functions.
• Ability to work independently with initiative to achieve personal and company goals.
• Working knowledge of state-of-the-art quality inspection, quality engineering/assurance techniques, and general business operations.

What Gives You a Competitive Edge (Basic Preferred):

• 1+ year of experience functioning in a quality/manufacturing setting.
• Prior experience functioning within a quality job assignment.
• Prior supervisory in an automotive setting.
• Red X, Six Sigma or equivalent technical problem solving training is desired, but not required.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree (BS) in Business or Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial) or equivalent discipline.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

Additional Description

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