Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Description

Quality Manager

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for a talented Quality Manager to join our team.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Manages the assurance of continuous improvement toward defect-free processes that meet or exceed customer needs in the supported plant. Responsible for the overall assessment and improvement of the people capabilities, processes, and tools that are critical to the quality assurance programs and processes.
• Manages the resolution and follow-up of quality issues with internal and external customers and suppliers.
• Manages, mentors, and develops staff; leads the assessment and establishment of education, training, and skills profiles for quality professionals.
• Participates in project selection and analysis; advises staff on prioritization of projects.\\
• Oversees projects budget progress and leads cost control activities for assigned teams.
• Reinforces customer-led quality focus in the supported organization.
• Establishes and maintains quality assurance standards, procedures, and controls.
• Serves as a key quality representative for supplier and customer audits.
• Manages post-implementation exercises to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.
• Follows Six Sigma methodologies in the process of identifying, selecting, tracking, progressing through, and assessing the success of projects and initiatives.

Qualifications

Skills

• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Manages ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Develops talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Persuades - Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
• Quality Leadership (Cummins Operating System) - Demonstrates knowledge of the Cummins Operating System, quality management systems by applying the ten practices to assess business segment and functional performance, set strategy aligned with business needs and create consistency of purpose for continuously improving products, processes, services; enables data driven decision making and removes barriers to enable individuals to have line of sight to the customer; uses metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Problem Solving - Solves problems using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• Advanced Product Quality Planning - Leads the technical quality planning and ensures customer satisfaction through structured and measurable processes as defined by industry standard.
• Quality System Management - Guides in the practice and application of quality management system standards required by international certification bodies, industry specific regulatory authorities and customer's contractually specified requirements.
• Supplier Quality Management - Leads all aspects of supplier quality management; helps develop strategy and collaborative supplier partnerships; identifies supplier innovation capabilities; contributes to supplier audit and certification process; tracks supplier performance metrics and acts to quickly resolve issues to improve supplier quality performance.
• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and processes to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of negative events or to maximize the realization of positive events.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Significant level of relevant work experience, including supervisory experience, required.

Location

• This role is 100% onsite in Florence, KY

Compensation and Benefits

Salary range is $100,000 - $150,000. Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after taking into account relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.

Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.

Cummins and E-verify

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Job QUALITY

Primary Location United States-Kentucky-Florence-US, KY, Florence, Dixie Hwy Mfg

Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office

Recruitment Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Job Posting Mar 15, 2024, 1:30:00 PM

Unposting Date Mar 30, 2024, 1:29:00 PM

Organization Cummins Meritor

Role Category Remote - The location of this role is flexible to certain locations

Relocation Package Eligible

Req ID: 240001TF