Job Description

Company Overview:

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Role Summary:

Looking for an engaged manager to lead the quality group in the Flowserve AMSS Kalamazoo Michigan seals operation. This position will be responsible for driving initiatives to improve quality performance through continuous improvement (CI).

Responsibilities & Requirements: Responsibilities:

• Engages with the site leadership teams to effectively communicate customer, regulatory and organizational requirements to assure product quality, contract compliance and customer satisfaction.
• Manages the Kalamazoo QA team and the Manufacturing Indirect QC team to ensure proper balance of meeting quality targets and operational throughput.
• Oversees the effective documentation and implementation of the QMS to assure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements and the standards set by corporate/division policies.
• Partners with the leadership team to ensure that individuals performing functions affecting quality are trained and demonstrate the appropriate skills and performance results.
• Coordinates necessary plant personnel for internal, customer and third-party quality system audits. This will include on site as well as phone in surveys and mail-in surveys.
• Approval of all business system QAB access requests and annual access audits.
• Maintain corporate corrective action system to analyze and drive corrections of nonconforming conditions and complaints.
• Implements the performance measurements necessary to effectively evaluate organizational performance and trends in product quality, services, customer satisfaction and the cost of quality.
• Uses the results of performance evaluation to drive improvement efforts using Lean/CI tools.
• In conjunction with supply chain resources, develop and initiate methods to qualify, certify and maintain domestic or low-cost region suppliers in accordance with ISO 9001 standards.
• Responsible for developing and managing the Material Review Board process.
• Collaborating with our company’s quality leadership, you will champion the implementation of the quality plan and quality management system (QMS) at the site level to achieve the overall success of quality objectives.
• Using your demonstrated leadership, project management, facilitation and problem solving skills, you can lead this team to enhance and improve the site’s products and services through the implementation of ISO 9001, root cause analysis (RCA), prevention methods, and CI techniques (i.e. Lean, Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control).
• Displays strong leadership by making time to connect with associates, creating a great environment for everyone to work in, and help develop the team to reach their collective and individual potential.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required (engineering, manufacturing technology or related is preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in quality leadership
• Demonstrated experience managing/supervising a quality team
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, ASME, NUPIC, AS9100 and other relevant industry codes and standards
• Based on business or customer needs, you may experience 10% - 15% travel, which could include international travel
• U.S. citizen

Primary Posting Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan US

Job Advertising Title: Manager, Quality Assurance

Preferred Experience / Skills: NA

Job Posting Category: Operations

Employment Type: Full time

Country: United States

Auto req ID: 53699BR

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