Quality Manager

Whirlpool, Inc.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Always On Flexibility

Two-Week Work from Anywhere

Sabbatical

Job summary

Whirlpool, Inc. is looking for a Quality Manager in Kentucky. This role is essential for leading a team focused on ensuring premium product quality through effective quality control programs and continuous improvement strategies.

The incumbent will allocate resources for quality control in a 24-hour manufacturing facility and drive initiatives to enhance key performance indicators. A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field and five years of leadership experience in manufacturing quality are required.

Qualifications

• 5 years of quality, engineering, or operations leadership experience in a manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

• Allocate team resources to respond to quality control priorities.
• Solve problems with product quality using root cause analysis.
• Coordinate engineering activities across all shifts.
• Lead continuous improvement activities in quality control.
• Develop strategies to improve key performance indicators.
• Lead quality control labs performing required testing.

Skills

Quality Control Leadership Experience

OpEx, Six Sigma Black Belt

PFMEA

Control Plan

CPM experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

The team you will be a part of

The Quality Generalist team conducts internal quality controls concerning particular areas or company products to ensure they fulfill given quality procedures and norms. Monitors and records inconsistencies with quality procedures and norms. Preparing quality analyses and recommends necessary quality procedure changes.

This role in summary

The Quality Manager is responsible for leading a team of engineers, technicians, and inspectors to drive premium product quality. Specific responsibilities include leading the quality control programs to respond to internal and external customer quality concerns, complete regulatory audits, and drive continuous improvement across all manufacturing processes and product design parameters.

Your responsibilities will include

• Allocate team resources to respond to all quality control priorities to support daily production requirements in a 24-hour manufacturing facility
• Solve problems with product quality using root cause analysis and implementing countermeasures
• Coordinate engineering and technician activities across all shifts including overtime, weekends, and holidays to complete critical quality control reaction plans including hold orders and reworks
• Lead the Quality Control continuous improvement activities, driving expansion of the problem solving methodology to all department team members
• Develop and deploy strategies to improve key performance indicators of entire department on a year over year basis, including Service Incident Rate, First Pass Yield, and Customer Assurance Lab PPM
• Lead quality control labs, performing all required testing to meet internal and external quality assurance requirements including all necessary documentation

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 5 years of quality, engineering, or operations leadership experience in a manufacturing facility

Preferred skills and experiences

• Quality Control Leadership Experience
• OpEx, Six Sigma Black Belt, or similar statistical analysis certifications
• PFMEA, Control Plan, and CPM experience
• World Class Manufacturing leadership including Quality Control and Focused Improvement Pillars

Additional information

Whirlpool’s Ways of Working

• Always On Flexibility – You will have the autonomy to manage personal, family, and outside-of-work commitments as needed.
• Two-Week Work from Anywhere – Minimum of one-week increments for a total of two weeks per year.
• Sabbatical – Four weeks paid leave after every five years of service.

Whirlpool Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.