Senior Quality Leader

Job Description Summary

The Quality Leader will have the responsibility of leading the Quality team to ensure manufactured products meet the industry standards, customer specifications and expectations. Manage cross functional coordination across the manufacturing unit to meet business operational and financial objectives. Continuous improvement of the quality processes and policies and mentoring of all employees to those processes. Strong focus on delivery of quality products on time to customers. Requires strong foundation in quality systems, supplier quality, root cause analysis, manufacturing, and inspection technologies.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Ownership includes both quality assurance and quality control. Includes quality assurance of products, services, manufacturing processes. Includes conformance in manufacturing, incoming goods control, product inspection, witness points, customer quality, etc.

• Manages a small to medium team of lead professionals as well as others in various functions including Quality systems, Supplier quality, Incoming inspection, Production quality, Design quality and Customer care

• Leads and/or Participates in Kaizens as part of Continuous improvement efforts to improve product quality.

• Participates in Daily Plant Genba to support the operation and coach the first line leaders.

• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services.

• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions or solve complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology, or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.

• Partners with Engineering and R&D teams on NPI projects to incorporate Design to Quality by utilizing common tools like Design FMEA, Gate reviews, etc.

• Leads investigations for Internal and external quality defects or failures and ensures robust corrective and preventative actions.

• Review and approve First Article Inspection

• Manages Supplier Quality function, executes supplier audits, development plans.

• Manages Incoming Inspection functions, develops inspection plans.

• Owns Operator Skill Matrix and provides periodic training to mitigate deficiencies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (Or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Manufacturing or Quality)
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality control and a minimum 3 years of management experience.

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced knowledge of and training in quality control functions such as FMEA, 8D, Statistical process control, ISO9000, Root Cause Analysis, etc.

• Advanced knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques such as 5S, Lean, JIT, Kaizen, and others.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes