VACANCY –Quality Manager

Our Client in the manufacturing industry is looking for a Quality Manager in East London who will be reporting to the Factory Manager.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain the Quality and Safety Management Systems in accordance with SABS ISO 9001, TS 16949, ISO 14001 , ISO 18001 and VDA 6.
To liaise with customers to ensure that customer specific requirements are implemented and maintained, including Warranty Systems.
To ensure that Quality, Safety, Health and Environment requirements are met at all stages of process development and production.
Co-ordinate, control and conduct technical analysis of customer returns.
Liaise with the relevant Departments to conduct root cause analysis and identify countermeasures for customer returns.
Monitor and report on a weekly and monthly basis on customer returns, customer complaints (G8D’s) internal and external PPM’s and continual improvement activities.
Assist with any technical problems in the factory, including Problem Solving and risk analysis.
Attend to any customer complaints and queries timeously and report back to production manager.
Control quality policies, procedures, systems and standards in the plant.
Manage and supervise quality personnel and ensure training needs analysis and necessary training takes place.
Formulation / documented input with regard to Control plans, FMEA’s and Quality instructions in co-operation with the responsible Process engineer;
To maintain and exceed both internal and external customer requirements/targets for Quality and PPM.
Prevention of internal/external failures through audits and corrective/preventative action methods.
Manage and conduct regular Product, process and Dock audits according to VDA 6.3 requirements.

Manage and control the receiving inspection, patrol inspection and final buy off inspection:

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Matric National Diploma (T3 / S4 / N6) Mechanical Engineering, FMEA, SPC, Quality Planning, Problem Solving, Advanced EMS ISO 14001, in depth knowledge of QS 9000, VDA 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, ISO 9001: 2000, & TS 16949.
10 years Plastics Injection moulding experience on automotive plastics component;
10 years Plastics Injection moulding tooling development and manufacturing experience;
5 years project management experience on automotive component projects;