Plant Quality Manager Summary (Aerospace Plant!)

The Plant Quality Manager is responsible for Toronto site management of the Quality Assurance function including quality assurance, quality control, technology development and laboratory. The Quality Manager interacts and communicates with customers and suppliers including customer audits and 3rd party audits. Active member of TIMET Global quality group responsible for ensuring proactive defect hazard mitigation and continuous improvement to the quality management system and product quality.

Plant Quality Manager Essential Functions

Participate in the overall planning and oversight of the Toronto Quality Management System.

Establishes laboratory standards for safety, on-time delivery, quality, cost control, and productivity

Manage quality assurance, quality control, and laboratory activities.

Support the employee needs of the Quality Assurance organization.

Serve as ISO, AS and NADCAP management representative for Toronto.

Lead the development and customer qualification of new technologies, products and processes.

Interface with QA/ R&D function of other TIMET units.

Responsible for adhering to NADCAP, AS and ISO guidelines

Customer specification review and accuracy for order acknowledgement.

Manage internal quality audit program and process.

Manager Corrective and Preventative Action program and process.

Manage customer and 3rd party audits and visits.

Manage Outside Conversion Source audit program and process.

Develop and work to budgets to achieve cost management goals, and initiate or participate in cost reduction and/or profit improvement programs.

Support engineering projects relating to capacity expansions, new technology and/or equipment-based process improvements.

Manage capital expenditures.

Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, changes, and policies. Encourage positive communication. Enforce all company policies, rules and regulations.

Plant Quality Manager Additional Responsibilities

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Manages subordinate supervisors and employees in the Quality Assurance group. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the Toronto quality team. Carries out managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization&39;s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Competencies

Champions Change - Actively promotes and continually seeks changes that move the business forward. Works with an open and flexible mind in considering change

Communication/Interpersonal Skills - Maintains a positive attitude, works at maintaining positive work relationships, ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, effectively communicates with outside contacts, strong impact and selling skills

Delivers Results - Sets goals and objectives for self and team and takes responsibility to achieve these in a timely manner. Ensures that actions are taken in support of goals and objectives. Examples - sets and delivers goals, results focused, action orientated.

Displays Creativity - Able to generate novel solutions to problems. Examples are creative decision making and applying vision and creativity to decision making.

Effective Decision Making - Skilled at analyzing the soft and hard aspects of a problem and using functional expertise to make effective decisions. Comfortable in dealing with concepts and uncertainty in problem solving.

People Management Skills - Effective as a manager in motivating, coaching and developing employees. Applies effective management skills to motivate subordinates.

Provides Effective Leadership - Effective as a leader and communicator in motivating and managing people as individuals and in teams. Provides direction to sub ordinates and is effective in coaching and developing others. Examples include developing and retaining talent, project and team leadership, providing clear direction and effective people management.

Works Efficiently - Effective at planning and organizing work and using time management to ensure deadlines are met and targets are achieved. Able to reschedule plans to cope with unexpected occurrences Maintains well-organized materials, files, systems and tools. Breaks work down into logical steps. Anticipates and eliminates roadblocks and delays. Stays within allotted time for accomplishing tasks. Completes tasks in the shortest, most efficient manner. Makes sure all parts of a job are completed in full, including follow-up plans and paperwork.

Self-Development - Constantly seeks to improve own knowledge and skills set by seeking feedback on performance, making positive plans for future direction and developing aligned personal action plans.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Education and Experience

BS degree in a Technical or Engineering Discipline, plus at least 10 years related quality management experience in a manufacturing environment preferred. Must be proficient with MS office applications. Previous metals experience with titanium preferred

Additional Notes

Proof of US citizenship, nationality, and/or permanent resident status in order to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations.

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