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Global Quality Manager - BAM
Location: This position will be located in Buffalo (NY), Dallas or Manchester.
Reports To: Senior Director of Operations, BAM.
Why work for us?
Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.
Summary
The Global Quality Manager is responsible for driving improvements across the whole supply chain globally to achieve or exceed improvement targets in the area of quality performance.
This role cascades targets to plants within the Business Unit and uses Operational Excellence methodologies to deliver improvements in customer facing metrics, while reducing risk to Alkegen. Specifically the role focusses on reduction in complaints received from customers and the underlying improvement in processes in manufacturing and aligned departments to improve the customer experience.
The role ensures that plants become and stay in compliance with regulatory requirements (eg ISO9001 / IATF16949) applicable to the business unit.
The role focusses on the improvement of internal processes to deliver improved customer satisfaction and reduced risk while engaging teams in the BU to operate with a “zero defect” and “zero loss” mindset. Key
The role holder will liaise with multiple functional stakeholders, coordinating quality processes from pre-serial production (APQP) and will directly represent Alkegen with the customer.
Critical to the success of this professional will be their ability to be a proactive leader who is collaborative, drives for results, develops individuals and teams, and builds processes that lead to sustainable performance.
Responsibilities

Quality Management:

• The roll holder will act as a champion of the customer in the organization.
• The role holder is responsible for planning, developing, and directing quality assurance policies, programs, and initiatives inside the business unit.
• The role holder will be responsible to manage the quality performance of the internal Alkegen supply chain, which operates across multiple sites paying close attention to extended operations & sub contractors.
• The role holder will ensure that processes and used inside the Business Unit comply with established quality standards and regulations, not limited to ISO9000 and IATF 16949 standards.

Safety:

• The role holder drives continual improvement in safety, with no compromises to safety at any time.

Continuous Improvement:

• The role holder ensures that Plants operate with a sense of urgency and commitment to meet the objectives of the business unit.
• The roll holder will be a change agent and an advocate for a zero defects quality culture.
• The role holder will facilitate the resolution of external / internal quality issues with strong problem solving and critical thinking skills, root cause analysis, effective containment, and corrective action / prevention implementation
• The role holder will implement proven improvement strategies supported by statistically rigorous methods and/or lean methodologies.
• The role holder will deliver improvements in production efficiency and waste reduction to support zero material losses philosophy inside the business unit.

Team Leadership and Development:

• The role holder must be an effective influencer of plant managers, quality managers and other operational stakeholders to ensure that sites and functions operate with a sense of urgency and commitment to meet the objectives of the business unit.
• This role will own the QA toolset and develop competence in the tools across the organization.

Key Competencies

• Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values.
• Be able to lead, coach, and develop team members.
• Be highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm.
• Communicating in an open and honest way, that quickly builds trust and respect.
• Drives execution with the team and has a bias towards action, and results.
• Change Management: Proven, change management skills. Sets the scene for change, develops workable plans, communicates changes effectively, building commitment and overcoming resistance to change.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated problem solving skills. Quickly able to ascertain the cause of a problem through the use of disciplined, data driven problem solving techniques. Not driven by emotional thinking when understanding problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field. A Master’s degree is preferred.
• Significant prior experience in quality engineering / assurance with exposure to IATF16949 standards and ideally AIAG and VDA standards
• Experience of dealing with customers and acting as a focal point for the organization with the customer base.
• Experience CI and lean methodologies, ideally L6S Black Belt.
• Held leadership roles in large-scale manufacturing operations.
• Good understanding of Supply chain networks, Design for Manufacture Principles & Project management experience
• Strong analytical skills and experience with statistical process control and manufacturing data analysis.
• Travel: Up to 50% of the time may be required at certain times.

If you are interested in being part of a world class function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.
At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.
Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.

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