Quality Assurance Administrator - TN
- Portland, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Track supplier defect occurrences directly related to supply base non-conformities
- Communicate performance with automotive tier two suppliers while maintaining and continually improving upon relationships between both USTA and the supply base.
- Track corrective actions up to and including official OEM complaints and provide status reports to the UST team weekly.
- Assist with new hire and operator certification training.
- Assist with improvements in packaging to improve safety, quality, cost, and process improvements.
- Meet with CFT, APQP, Management team to understand the APQP requirements for each project launch.
- Coordinate with Quality Engineer and Supervisors support APQP activities ensuring that team members understand requirements.
- Track APQP activities, communicate status to CFT, APQP, and Supervisor.
- Support CFT and Manufacturing in APQP and related activities in order to meet timing and customer expectations.
- Work with QA and engineering on APQP documents (Customer required documents, Control Plan, PFMEA, Process Flow Diagrams, etc ) and Work standards as required.
- Participate in IATF 16949 internal audits as scheduled. Become a lead auditor if not one already
- Manages distribution, access, retrieval and use of all control required documents.
- Responsible for management and scheduling of document review audits.
- Utilize and maintain the document control module of the Quality Planning and Management Software "IQS"
- Ensure 100% compliance with IATF 16949:2016 and ISO14001:2015 Technical Specifications
- Other duties as required.
- High school diploma or equivalent required. Associates Degree preferred.
- 10+ years of Automotive manufacturing experience required
- 5 years Quality Assurance experience is required
- Experience with lean manufacturing, project management, and ISO & IATF procedures is preferred. Experience balancing multiple requirements and the ability to strategize and prioritize tasks in order to achieve the greatest output.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in Lean Manufacturing, Project Management and ISO 9001/ IATF16949 procedures is required.
- Use of SPC, AQP tools and metrics to proactively identify and introduce improvement to tier two organizations.
- Proficient with the use of SPC and C.I. activities to reduce waste and prevent quality non-conformities throughout tier two supply base.
- Effective in control plan auditing and process verification.
- Experience with effective corrective action implementation and root cause evaluation.
- Proficient in public speaking skills.
- Effective presentation and communication skills when speaking in front of large groups of people.
- Experience with the IATF 16949 requirements and specific clauses for supplier monitoring and development.
- Ability to think critically and creatively in high stress situations. Must be able to work independently while maintaining a distinguished level of time and priority management.
- Management of cross-functional teams to resolve open and repeat corrective actions.
- Strong leadership skills with ability to take various teams towards data driven goals based around COQ, CAPA, and SCARS.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office
- QAD experience preferred
- Up to 10% travel required.