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Senior Quality Specialist
This position is located in Lake Charles, LA
Summary
As part of the Site Leadership Team reporting to the Total Quality Manager (Corporate Quality Assurance), the Senior Quality Specialist is the site leader for quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement. The Senior Quality Specialist will be building a QMS system and quality culture from the ground up to enhance the site's capabilities. The Senior Quality Specialist develops, implements, and manages quality systems designed to ensure continuous production of advanced composite materials and applications (consistent with established standards, customer specifications and Cremer goals). This role engages suppliers, customers, and other Cremer sites with limited travel expectations (<25%).
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- B.A. or B.S degree or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- 3+ years of progressive experience managing quality control in an industrial or cGMP manufacturing setting.
- Experience with ISO 9001, HACCP, cGMP, IPEC, and other programs (e.g., GFSI, Halal, Kosher, RSPO).
- Experience in obtaining an ISO 9001 certification for a manufacturing company preferred.
- Chemical processing experience and/or knowledge of chemistry are highly valued.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build and maintain the quality management system for the site that meets company, customers and regulatory needs.
- Secure and maintain ISO 9001 certification and compliance to relevant current Good Manufacturing Practices for customer products.
- Build a quality culture at the site impacting all team members.
- Initiate and establish key quality processes and procedures to meet compliance needs.
- Coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with production team to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.
- Represent company as single point of contact on quality issues with suppliers and customers, inclusive of root cause investigations, countermeasure development, and formal responses through customer-required systems.
- Collaborate and provide Quality Assurance support to other Cremer sites and future M&A locations as requested by management including CVP- Dayton, TN location.
- Establish a continuous improvement quality environment, challenging others to improve individual and group performance, engaging the entire workforce.
- Build and maintain a quality department staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees when the business need presents itself.
- Maintains quality department staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
- Align assigned team with organizational objectives through key performance indicator development and maintain focus through daily huddles, one-on-ones, and other meetings, as necessary, inclusive of daily work assignments.
- Communicate progress toward key performance indicator goal attainment through daily management boards (i.e., huddle boards), where appropriate.
- Collaborate with other members of management to develop new manufacturing processes, and training methods.
- Maintain and improve product quality by completing product, system, and surveillance audits.
- Monitor inputs related to ensuring employees conform to production or processing standards.
- Review new business opportunities to ensure current standards meet customer expectations and partner to develop processes with internal colleagues and customer to develop methods if current processes do not meet customer expectations.
- Create, document, and implement inspection criteria and procedures to ensure timely release of produced goods. If applicable, work with Laboratory team to perform any release testing for Certificate of Analysis.
- Provide, and oversee, inspection activity for product throughout production cycle.
- Lead site management of change process, while supporting others in their change initiatives with advice, expertise, and review.
- Facilitate critical (e.g., repeating, severity) nonconformance investigations, while supporting others in their nonconformance investigations as needed.
- Serve as member of HACCP team.
- Administer electronic quality management system (IQS) to ensure managements of change, nonconformance investigations, and corrective actions meet internal and external expectations.
- Participate in internal/external audits and execute site corporate quality programs/certifications.
- Complete all required training assignments and leadership requests.
- Adhere to all site environmental, health, safety, and security requirements, local, state, and federal regulations.
- Follow all RC14001 guiding principles, policies, procedures, and other requirements.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, disability, age, marital status, disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, pregnancy, including child birth or any related condition, gender identity or expression, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws
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