Our client is a subsidiary of a publicly traded company. They have experience tremendous growth of approximately 400% in the past 5 years or so. The Director of Quality’s role is to encourage a business-enabling Quality culture throughout the organization. Develops, implements, and coordinates product assurance program to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

Primary Duties

• Analyzes, evaluates, and presents information concerning factors such as business situations, production capabilities, manufacturing problems, economic trends, and design and development of new products for consideration by other members of management team.
• Proactively organize and promote opportunities for continuous quality improvement.
• Suggests and debates alternative methods and procedures in formulating and establishing company policies, operating procedures, and goals,
• Develops initial and subsequent modifications of product assurance program to delineate areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures within program.
• Reviews technical problems and procedures of departments and recommends solutions to problems or changes in procedures.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with our suppliers and partners to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Confers with engineers about quality assurance of new products designed and manufactured products on market to rectify problems.
• Leverage quality data to assist New Business Development in growth of Business.
• Manage a 10-15 employee staff of Quality Engineers, Supplier Quality Engineers, Configuration management and Quality Technicians.

Position Requirements

• BS in Quality Engineering, BSEE, or BSME.
• 5-10 years experience managing a Quality Assurance organization including managing and implementing ISO Programs.
• Experience supporting quality objectives with international subcontractors. Preferably in the electronic component industry.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Experience with product failure analysis and reporting and the functioning and requirements of a reliability lab desirable.
• Spanish fluency a plus.

Contact:

Jeff Seeney
Executive Search Consultant
The Keystone Partnership
12312 Olive Boulevard, Suite 550
Creve Coeur, Missouri 63141
314-878-7200 (phone)
314-283-9911 (mobile)
jseeney@keystonestaffing.com

JOB SUMMARY

Performs analysis related to product quality, cost of quality, and effectiveness of corrective and preventive action. Develops and coordinates implementation of plans to improve the cost effectiveness of quality controls measures, to improve production methods and efficiencies, and to attain cycle time reduction. Initiates and maintains trend data relative to process control, key quality measures, and cost of quality. Develops and implements the Quality Management System in compliance with the ANSI-ASQ-ISO-9001 standard. Coordinate the implementation of ISO procedures with the development of measurement, analysis and revisions to quality processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collect, process, analyze data related to product quality, cost of quality and effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions. (40%)
• Develops and coordinates implementation of plans to improve the cost effectiveness of quality controls measures, to improve production methods and efficiencies, and to attain cycle time reduction. (20%)
• Initiates and maintains trend data relative to process control, key quality measures, and cost of quality. (20%)
• Other Functions (Quality System data entry, reporting, and administration). (20%)

WRITTEN AND VERBAL CONTACT

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Able to work well with employees at all levels throughout the company.
• Interacts with internal and external employees at all levels.

SCOPE AND MONETARY IMPACT

• N/A

EDUCATION

• BA/BS preferred. Experience may be substituted

EXPERIENCE

• 2+ years process quality experience, including analysis, working in a quality improvement role.
• 2+ years of experience working in an organization with a structured process quality system.
• Knowledge of quality engineering principles.
• Ability to prioritize projects based on business impact and handle multiple simultaneous projects; excellent organizational skills.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills, including statistics, probability, and quality engineering analytical tools.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, capable of operating a personal computer, and able to read source documents.
• Proficient in QualTrax systems preferred

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Background with imagery product processes desirable
• Working knowledge of production planning, measurement and production control desirable.
• Knowledge of remote sensing products and customer applications desirable

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSES/CLEARANCES

• ASQ or other certifications
• Must be able to obtain a security clearance

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Normal office environment