Quality and Environment Manager

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Tasks & Responsibilities Quality:

• Organize, lead and continually develop Factory QA team and its performance.
• Ensure target setting and planning of resources as per local business- and normative/legal requirements.
• Continually improve business partner service level of Factory Quality team in cooperation with key stakeholders – capacity plan & monitoring.
• Lead root cause analysis in case of internally and externally detected product non-conformities.
• Follow-through on corrective and preventive actions to avoid product non-conformity reoccurrence.
• Lead factory claim management procedure
• Support internal and external auditing at factory level
• Budgeting, cost monitoring/reporting (incl. quality/non-quality cost reporting).
• Lead task force teams on site level and cross-functional in case of quality incidents / external complaints regarding on site manufactured products
• Contributes to annual management review for Q & E

Tasks & Responsibilities Environment

• Translate central Environmental & Sustainability strategy to site level.
• Ensure meeting Environmental KPIs and targets locally
• Coordinate local Environmental program and ensures compliance with appropriate standards and regulations.
• Work across the organization to improve the processes and capabilities to achieving Environmental and Sustainability goals.
• Consolidating local environmental data e.g. waste, water & energy consumption, etc.
• Support central Environmental and Sustainability reporting
• Maintain law and chemical register on site level
• Communicate with external authorities regarding environmental aspects

Skills & Competencies

• Successfully completed Master’s degree in a technical or scientific field or comparable technical training or relevant professional experience
• Advanced expertise in material science, with a focus on plastics and metals.
• Training as a quality manager and in environmental management required
• Knowledge of the current relevant requirements in environmental law
• At least 5 years industry experience, ideally in the specific field of QM/QA and Environment in a multinational and/or multisite set-up with leadership assignment.
• Management System knowledge and experience (min. ISO 9001, ISO 19011, ISO 45001 and 14001; ISO 50001 is a plus).
• Internal/external auditor experience.
• Advanced expertise in root cause analysis and problem-solving techniques. Six Sigma Green Belt or similar Lean Management expertise is appreciated.
• Assertive and able to enforce quality standards and rules across functions.
• Good local language skills (spoken and written), English knowledge at min. B2 level.
• Good MS Office and ERP skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Oracle, SAP).
• Salesforce/BI basic knowledge.
• Travel readiness.

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Tasks & Responsibilities Quality:

• Organize, lead and continually develop Factory QA team and its performance.
• Ensure target setting and planning of resources as per local business- and normative/legal requirements.
• Continually improve business partner service level of Factory Quality team in cooperation with key stakeholders – capacity plan & monitoring.
• Lead root cause analysis in case of internally and externally detected product non-conformities.
• Follow-through on corrective and preventive actions to avoid product non-conformity reoccurrence.
• Lead factory claim management procedure
• Support internal and external auditing at factory level
• Budgeting, cost monitoring/reporting (incl. quality/non-quality cost reporting).
• Lead task force teams on site level and cross-functional in case of quality incidents / external complaints regarding on site manufactured products
• Contributes to annual management review for Q &

Tasks & Responsibilities Environment

• Translate central Environmental & Sustainability strategy to site level.
• Ensure meeting Environmental KPIs and targets locally
• Coordinate local Environmental program and ensures compliance with appropriate standards and regulations.
• Work across the organization to improve the processes and capabilities to achieving Environmental and Sustainability goals.
• Consolidating local environmental data e.g. waste, water & energy consumption, etc.
• Support central Environmental and Sustainability reporting
• Maintain law and chemical register on site level
• Communicate with external authorities regarding environmental aspect