Quality Assistant Manager at Hyundai Transys Georgia Seating System, LLC – Savannah, Georgia

Title: Assistant Quality Manager

Reports to: Quality Manager

Department: Quality

Salary: Commensurate with Experience

Supervises: Quality Engineers, Quality Inspectors, Quality Interns

Reviews manufacturing instructions or procedures for completeness, correctness, and comprehension by production/assembly workers. Audits processes performed by workers relative to methods, tools, ability to follow manufacturing instructions. May determine frequency and allowable variations from specifications at various stages of the manufacturing process. Investigates and recommends alternatives to products designs or manufacturing methods to ensure quality. May generate inspection plans, reporting formats, or performance indicators for specific process areas.

Duties to include but not limited to:

• Able to create and manage a U.S. PPAP process/package
• Develop and implement quality control plan/systems from scratch
• Responsible for the inspections according to the quality management system / control plans
• Take corrective action if the customer’s agreed quality aims can’t be met
• Responsible for the execution of the product audit, internal system audits, and the process audits
• Responsible for the inspections according to the quality management system / control plans /agreements with customers
• Decisions regarding the inspection status according to the quality management system
• Responsible for data administration and archiving of quality documents, samples and measurement instruments
• Responsible for reporting Quality data for the Quality department (Excel charts/PowerPoint)
• Determination of preventive measurements to assure quality with production, managements and project teams
• Responsible for assisting with IATF-16949 audits
• Work on cross-functional team through a PFMEA review and create/finalize the PFMEA
• Perform/initiate capability studies and be able to interpret the results
• Able to fill-out PSW/AAR forms
• Interface with CMM operators on how to measure the components and assemblies and fill out the proper dimensional PPAP forms
• Understand the customer requirements for testing and ability to interpret and fill out the proper PPAP forms
• Initiate GR&R/MSA studies and able to interpret the results
• Understand plastic processes and able to create work instructions and possibly process flow diagrams
• Able to interface with customers’ Quality Engineers with questions/issues and get resolution
• Able to read customer drawings and interpret them
• Understand GD&T and be able to interpret CMM reports
• Understand part functions and the ability to create GD&T schemes based on those understandings and interface those ideas with the customer
• Understanding of gages and use the created GD&T schemes to build them
• Interface with the customer to get gage concepts and designs approved
• Interface with gage builders to create gages and follow up on them through build and completion
• Ability to review parts and make determinations if they are acceptable by meeting the quality standards created
• Visit customers for color and harmony meetings
• Able to read colorimeter results
• Analyzing quality control to detect production problems
• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies

Technical Skills:

• Must possess a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Broad knowledge of quality systems including IATF-16949, ISO and QMS; Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, TPS
• Complete understanding of the MS Office Suite including MS Project
• Good problem solving skills

Work Experience:

• Must have at least 5 years experience working in a manufacturing environment at a level of Quality Engineer
• Past working experience with seating is a plus

This Position Description is intended as a summary of the job responsibilities for this particular position. HTGSS reserves the right to add, remove, and/or alter job responsibilities in whole or in part with or without notice. Additionally, all HTGSS team members are subject to all other HTGSS policies and procedures, including those set out in HTGSS’s Team Member Handbook.

This Position Description is not a contract. Every Team Member’s employment with HTGSS is voluntary and is subject to termination by the team member or HTGSS at will, with or without cause, and, with or without notice, at any time. Nothing in this Position Description or HTGSS policies shall be interpreted to be in conflict or to eliminate or modify in any way the employment-at-will status of HTGSS team members