Quality Systems Leader - Enterprise Quality & Training

Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company in Saint Louis, MO seeks an Engineering Manager – Quality to lead enterprise quality systems, training, and manufacturing processes across sites, aligning to Watlow 2023 Vision. You will guide root cause analysis and drive improvements with cross-functional teams.

The role reports to the Director of Global Quality and requires expanding leadership, expertise in APQP/PPAP and Quality tools, and fostering an environment focused on safe, quality-driven results

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in field of specialization or bachelor’s degree and related experience.
• Expertise in APQP, PPAP PQP, CRAM’s, POR, and Copy Exact and methodologies.
• Strong data management skills. Excel, SharePoint, SQL Server databases.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and coaching of team members including New Product Development Quality Engineers.
• Subject matter expert for quality skills such as APQP, PPAP, Copy Exact, POR and complex quality tools.
• Formulates or assists in formulating and implementing quality control policies and procedures.
• Focuses on improving products or processes that impact one or more technical areas or across multiple manufacturing locations by researching new and existing business and quality systems within and outside of the organization.
• Implementing and training of the best solution for business and/or quality systems to address the needs of the business and/or our customers.
• Coaches teams on application of cause chains, 5-Why, Ishikawa diagrams, 8D, RCCA, A3 systems thinking, creative problem solving and the development of trade-off curves.
• Member of the Quality Leadership Team, leading and supporting action/projects in support of enterprise needs.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Quality leadership

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

Excel

SharePoint

SQL Server

Job description

Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company in Saint Louis, MO seeks an Engineering Manager – Quality to lead enterprise quality systems, training, and manufacturing processes across sites, aligning to Watlow 2023 Vision. You will guide root cause analysis and drive improvements with cross-functional teams.

The role reports to the Director of Global Quality and requires expanding leadership, expertise in APQP/PPAP and Quality tools, and fostering an environment focused on safe, quality-driven results