
Quality Control Manager
- Orlando, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Set the Quality department goals and objectives in line with the plant objectives and applicable engineering principles;
- Ensure the safe work environment rules and practices are understood, implemented and consistently followed by the Quality department employees and contractors;
- Define, follow-up and optimize the Quality department expenses;
- Ensure adoption and adherence to Titan standards, norms and best practices;
- Lead and develop the Quality department processes to meet desired requirements, improve operations and promote personnel development;
- Supervise preparation, adoption and review of documentation of the Quality System to be in line with the Quality Assurance System (QAS);
- Take all appropriate actions to ensure that production targets, customer expectations and regulatory specifications are achieved;
- Coordinate the implementation of the Quality Management System and monitor the application of the system in the plant;
- Detect, investigate, and report any deviations in the specifications of the test results for all products. Make recommendations based on findings;
- Report nonconformity and implement corrective actions;
- Manage the relationships with the certification agencies regarding product certification and approval;
- Specify, commission, and qualify the new laboratory equipment;
- Establish a quality control plan for each step of the process;
- Establish specifications for quality of the plant’s raw materials, fuels, intermediate and finished products;
- Establish quality procedures to be followed by the plant to ensure quality at all intermediary steps of the process and monitor their implementation;
- Assure compliance with the quality requirements listed in the contracts with customers;
- Give feedback on the opportunities for product development presented by the Business Unit Marketing & Sales and contribute to the definition of new product specifications; and
- Ensure that new products have established testing procedures and parameters.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent foreign degree;
- 10 years of quality control and process experience in the cement production industry and supervisory/managerial experience;
- Strong reasoning and math abilities;
- Experience with process improvement at a cement manufacturing plant;
- Experience with utilizing an objective approach to problem solving;
- Experience assessing processes using an SPC (Statistical Process Control) approach;
- Persuasive communication and negotiation skills;
- Knowledge of industry standards and specifications mainly being physical and chemical testing related to ASTM C150);
- Advanced knowledge and experience in ISO Standards: 9000 and 14000 as well as API Q1.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in ISO 17025 (Auditor experience) including implementation and accreditation to organisms recognized by ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation).
- Experience on calculating and interpreting uncertainty according to ISO17025.
- Knowledge of cement manufacturing design, applicable engineering processes and equipment;
- Experience on the commissioning and execution of projects related to new equipment in Cement Plants.
- Experience on production and quality control of special cements: White Cement, Well Cements (ISO10426).
- Knowledge of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies.
- Experience with commonly used computer software, including MS Office Suite, Minitab.