Quality Manager

Roush works alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn't believe. At Roush, you're part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovated solutions to complex challenges? Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged? If so, then keep reading. We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage. Are you passionate about driving excellence and making a real impact? Roush, a trailblazer in engineering and product development, is seeking an experienced Quality Manager . The Quality Manager is responsible for all operational quality related functions for site, program and customer specific requirements. The role will manage the quality staff and projects in support of new product launches and ongoing production. The Quality Manager will lead process improvement initiatives and corrective actions for a variety of products and services, employing tools and techniques to resolve any challenges to meeting quality deliverables and objectives. This position is located in Livonia, MI.

Duties and responsibilities for a Quality Manager:

• Participate in the product development process assuring customer quality deliverables are understood and communicated to assure successful product realization.
• Coordinate quality staff in support of customer deliverables and business unit operational quality objectives.
• Drive continual quality improvement initiatives internally and with suppliers, including resolution of process and product non-conformance.
• Support Quality Management Systems, including, but not limited to ISO 9001/AS9100/IATF16949 with hands on support of daily operational quality function.
• Participate in the quoting process as requested, meet customer quality expectations for product and process validation.
• Ensure that the quality roles and responsibilities are clearly defined, documented, disseminated, and understood by all levels of employees.
• Support and maintain reporting quality metrics for assigned programs/ projects.
• Perform department specific functions as needed to support department objectives

Minimum qualifications of a Quality Manager:

• Associate degree or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a quality role in a manufacturing or assembly environment.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience leading others formally or informally.
• Ability to analyze operational situations, evaluating risk, employing management tools and problem-solving techniques in resolving organizational challenges.
• Knowledge of blueprint and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance or Geometric Dimensional Tolerancing (GD&T) interpretation and inspection techniques and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
• Ability to manage multiple projects, lead team members to an objective quality process in support of ISO 9001 and interact professionally on a technical level with all company functional groups, suppliers, and customer counterparts.
• Excellent skills in root cause, data analysis and development and use of process flow diagrams.
• Advanced skills with MS Office suite, Power Point, Excel emphasis on reports, graphs, and presentations

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing or equivalent.
• Operational quality experience in a manufacturing or assembly process environment, vehicle assembly, second stage manufacturing, or up fit environment
• Knowledge of Six-Sigma principles.
• Knowledge of program management processes and tools.
• Knowledge of basic business financial metrics

Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonuses, paid vacation, paid holidays. Visit our website: www.roush.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RoushCareers Roush is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories If you need a reasonable accommodation for our employment application process due to disability, please contact Roush Talent Acquisition at (734) 779-7087.