Regional Quality Manager

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Gund Company has an immediate opening for a full-time Regional Quality Manager supporting multiple sites to join our team!

Do you want to join a company that offers you great pay, benefits, growth opportunities, and a challenging environment?

Join The Gund Company, where you will find friends who will support and challenge you to accomplish goals that provide amazing growth opportunities.

Plant/Work Location: This position will have oversite over four locations: St. Louis, MO, Milwaukee, WI, Fergus, Ontario, CAN, and Albany, NY. Any of the four locations can be considered as the home site.

What we do:

The Gund Company is in the business of engineered material manufacturing.

We are the industry leader in manufacturing and fabricating specialized engineered thermoplastic materials that provide a unique performance advantage. (customized non-conductive parts for diverse industries). We manufacture and fabricate custom parts from drawings and sample parts (reverse engineering).

At The Gund Company: We Take Care of Each Other, Take Care of the Customer and Take Care of the Business.

Our team prides themselves on being a group of fun, driven, problem-solvers who LOVE what they do!

What are we looking for?

• The Regional Quality Manager (RQM) maintains and supports the Business Management System at multiple facilities.

• The RQM has responsibility for leading and developing Quality Team Members at multiple sites.

• The RQM works with on-site quality support staff to ensure conformance to applicable Quality Management Standards (QMS) and customer requirements in support of continuous improvement and customer satisfaction goals.

What specifically will you be doing?

• Ensure all aspects of the QMS are compliant to ISO9001:2015, AS9100D and customer requirements.

• Represent the company during external certification and strategic customer audits.

• Manage and develop quality team members.

• Lead nonconforming material, customer complaint and supplier related issue investigations.

• Review customer satisfaction results and implement continuous improvement efforts.

• Work with key suppliers.

• Work with the Senior Director of Quality and Continuous Improvement to meet financial objectives by estimating requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions for the facilities under their responsibility.

• This position will have four direct reports, with multiple indirect reports.

Requirements

What do we need from you?

• 5-10 years of practical experience or an equivalent amount of education and experience in the development, implementation and continual improvement of a Quality Management System in a manufacturing environment, required.

• Experience in low volume, high variety manufacturing, preferred.

• Strong work ethic, oral and written communication skills, and attention to detail.

• Subject matter expert in Quality Systems Management.

• The ability to provide leadership and guidance in the application of quality practices throughout the company.

• Advanced computer skills, including MS Office and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system software.

• Ability to read and understand parts drawings/blueprints, ability to use and accurately measure parts with inspection tools.

• ISO9001:2015 and/or AS9100D experience, preferred.

Travel: Ability to support multiple plant locations which may require travel up to 50%.

Why Join Us?

• We Take care of Each Other, Take Care of the Customer and Take Care of the Business!

• A safe and healthy work environment

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays

• Low cost comprehensive employee benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability

• 401(k) retirement savings program with a 50% employer match (up to 6% of contributions)

• ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) - Shares are awarded each year based - no out-of-pocket investment

Physical Requirements

In order to perform the essential functions of this job, an employee must be able to do the following with or without reasonable accommodation:

• The ability to move about the office and manufacturing environments to access equipment and supplies.

• Operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.

Work Environment

The work environment is typical of most office environments; occasionally, the position will be required to be on the manufacturing floor. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by those assigned to a particular position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required and personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

EEO Statement: It is the policy of The Gund Company to recruit, hire, train, and promote employees without discriminating based on race, gender, age, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual preference, or disability.

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