Quality Specialist

at  GN Corporations

Specific duties, and responsibilities of the Quality Specialist shall include the following:

• Responsible for the organization, co-ordination, and direction of all quality related activities in accordance with customer requirements and the company Quality Program.
• Oversee the product manufacturing processes to ensure quality by supervising development of PFMEA and control plans through mistake proofing the critical failure modes.
• Review products, processes, and systems on an ongoing basis to determine where improvements can be made.
• Supervise the activities of all Quality Inspectors, Receiving Inspection and Supplier Quality Assurance.
• Work closely with all Internal Departments, Suppliers, and all Customers to ensure problem prevention and resolution.
• Responsible for the evaluation of statistical techniques and gather process relevant crucial data and develop techniques to reduce drift and control various processes.
• Assist the development and maintenance of advanced quality plans such as cost of quality programs to improve and reduce the cost of poor quality.
• Responsible for improved methods to move current quality objectives to the next level of performance.
• Determine quality metrics for all manufacturing procedures and Processes.
• Monitor the entire production cycle and perform regular inspections to identify potential malfunctions as early as possible.
• Prepare reports on defects trend analysis and propose corrective actions.
• Coordinate and manage the continual improvement process utilizing structured problem solving within the corrective and preventive action processes.
• Develop Quality Inspection Strategy by incorporating the Control Plan into the Manufacturing Inspection Reports and data collection for analysis.
• Be a core member for APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) activities, manage all quality related tasks during APQP stage.
• Prepare all Documents for customer requirements (included but limited to Quality Plan, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, Inspection Reports, Customer data packages etc.)
• PPAP submission based on customer specified submission level.
• IMDS (International Material Data System) approval and submission if required by customer.
• Conduct process capability analyses to evaluate manufacturing process performance compared to customer requirements.

Represent the Quality department for Pre-production meetings and communication open between Quality, Programs and Operations Team on the status of the process from a Quality standpoint.

• Ability to work with senior management team and implement their vision.
• Collaborate with Quality Analyst to successfully launch New Product to operations.
• Mentor and coach, the quality department to bring all resources to the level of knowledge required to effectively support the APQP and plant performance requirements.
• Assist in resolving process and product quality issues. Perform all work in accordance with quality standards and established safe work practices.
• Ensure that all findings are brought to the attention of the appropriate personnel.
• Verifies & validates processes and product conformance via Inspection Receiving, First Offs, Final Inspection, Process & Dock audits, testing.
• Identifies and records non-conformances, participates in the multidisciplinary GNs team to identify Root Cause, Corrective & Preventive Actions.

• Responsible for the organization, co-ordination, and direction of all quality related activities in accordance with customer requirements and the company Quality Program.
• Oversee the product manufacturing processes to ensure quality by supervising development of PFMEA and control plans through mistake proofing the critical failure modes.
• Review products, processes, and systems on an ongoing basis to determine where improvements can be made.
• Supervise the activities of all Quality Inspectors, Receiving Inspection and Supplier Quality Assurance.
• Work closely with all Internal Departments, Suppliers, and all Customers to ensure problem prevention and resolution.
• Responsible for the evaluation of statistical techniques and gather process relevant crucial data and develop techniques to reduce drift and control various processes.
• Assist the development and maintenance of advanced quality plans such as cost of quality programs to improve and reduce the cost of poor quality.
• Responsible for improved methods to move current quality objectives to the next level of performance.
• Determine quality metrics for all manufacturing procedures and Processes.
• Monitor the entire production cycle and perform regular inspections to identify potential malfunctions as early as possible.
• Prepare reports on defects trend analysis and propose corrective actions.
• Coordinate and manage the continual improvement process utilizing structured problem solving within the corrective and preventive action processes.
• Develop Quality Inspection Strategy by incorporating the Control Plan into the Manufacturing Inspection Reports and data collection for analysis.
• Be a core member for APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) activities, manage all quality related tasks during APQP stage.
• Prepare all Documents for customer requirements (included but limited to Quality Plan, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, Inspection Reports, Customer data packages etc.)
• PPAP submission based on customer specified submission level.
• IMDS (International Material Data System) approval and submission if required by customer.
• Conduct process capability analyses to evaluate manufacturing process performance compared to customer requirements