Quality And Environmental System Manager

Overview

Flow Dry Technology is a leading manufacturer of automotive desiccant components, which are critical to vehicle functionality and safety. We historically have focused on desiccant components for HVAC systems, winning the trust of discerning Tier 1 Automotive suppliers and OEMs. In the past two years, we have secured two patents in new applications that give us an opportunity to grow our business in other areas of the vehicle. We have a lot of potential!

Flow Dry maintains facilities in the U.S., Hungary and China. Our plants are IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 certified.

Flow Dry is part of Filtration Group, a global market-leading provider of filtration consumables that drives innovation and delivers solutions across a broad spectrum of applications and end-markets, with a focus on life sciences, indoor air quality and industrial technologies. Filtration Group is a mission-driven company with a strong entreprenurial culture, which presents tremendous career growth opportunities.

Flow Dry seeks a Quality and Environmental System Manager. This individual will report directly to the President and supervise one APQP Engineer. This individual will maintain strong dotted line relationships with the operations leaders at our sites, each of which are staffed with local Quality personnel. Acting on behalf of the President, this individual will be responsible for ensuring our facilities manufacture excellent product in compliance with registration body standards and customer standards.

Responsibilities

Drive Compliance to Registration Systems

• Refine and maintain the Flow Dry Quality System to ensure 1) it is compliant with registration body requirements and 2) easy to understand and execute.

• Manage and ensure readiness for ISO, IATF, VDA and customer audits, partnering with each of our site leaders to ensure their operations are prepared.

• Lead and train colleagues in internal audit as required.

• Organize and facilitate Quality System Management Review. Lead organization in ensuring continuous improvement on Quality metrics.

Drive Compliance with Customer Requirements

• Critically read customer Quality manuals to ensure we understand requirements and are prepared to meet them. Partner with customers as required to modify Quality requirements to ensure they are appropriate for the desiccant industry. Partner with operations to ensure that we launch new programs smoothly and do what we say we will do to ensure Quality.

• Review customer Quality scorecards monthly, briefing management team on areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.

• Respond to customer quality concerns with excellent customer service. In the event of a major complaint, partner with the local site team to ensure excellence and timeliness in resolution.

Drive Improved Environmental Performance

• Establish framework for measuring waste and emissions.

• Identify opportunities to reduce waste and emissions.

• Execute on opportunities to reduce waste and emissions in collaboration with site operations teams.

Other responsibilities as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related field

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering in the automotive industry, including experience both launching new products and driving excellence in the manufacture of existing products

• Knowledge of international quality standards (ISO/IATF/VDA); audit experience preferred

• Up to 10% travel

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint

• Note that environmental performance responsibilities may be executed with the support of external consultants. This individual should be a Quality expert first-but will have oversight over emissions tracking systems because they are increasingly becoming a component of customer requirements.

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action. The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates. Over 80 percent of the Company's revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer's products or processes. With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.