Rail Quality Assurance Lead – Site Coordinator

Greenbrier Companies, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenbrier Companies seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to provide functional leadership for site quality processes, ensuring products meet Greenbrier, customer, and regulatory requirements. The role leads training, inspections, audits, and corrective actions across functions, driving standardization and continuous improvement.

The position emphasizes safety, quality, and efficiency, coordinating with plant management and cross-functional teams to maintain compliance and optimize quality

Qualifications

• Ability to help others learn and develop.
• Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information.
• Ability to organize and prioritize projects and information with accuracy, under tight timeframes, to meet organizational needs.
• Basic knowledge of quality assurance principles, quality control processes, and documentation requirements.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate professionally, both verbally and in writing, at all levels.
• Successful completion of a technical proficiency evaluation within 90 days of assignment to the Quality Coordinator position.

Responsibilities

• Leads product and process validations.
• Assists with improvement initiatives and Quality Team Communications.
• Assists with the implementation, oversight, and management of the Quality Assurance Program on a site level basis.
• Leads customer visits & audits.
• Manages internal/external AAR audits.
• Assesses quality workload needs and makes recommendations to the plant manager for resources to support facility Quality Assurance.
• Ensures process nonconformance’s are reported and entered into the nonconformance application, and handled to final disposition.
• Participates in continuous improvement opportunities resulting from RCA data analysis.
• Supervises and coordinates activities for quality and technical Inspections.
• Ensures adherence to Greenbrier safety policies and procedures.
• Contributes to the overall performance from the standpoints of safety, quality, profitability.
• Manages in process inspection and final inspection audits to ensure compliance with quality program.
• Facilitates root cause and corrective action processes with cross-functional operations team.
• Ensures all required customer, AAR regulatory and Greenbrier standards, specifications and instruction are maintained.
• Evaluates and coordinates with the Plant Manager and Functional Leaders the operational and quality training needs.

Skills

Mentoring ability

Confidentiality skills

Project prioritization

Quality assurance basics

Communication skills

Technical proficiency assessment

Education

College coursework or equivalent

Quality-related work experience

Tools

SmartSheet

Intelex

MS Office Suite

Job description

Greenbrier Companies seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to provide functional leadership for site quality processes, ensuring products meet Greenbrier, customer, and regulatory requirements. The role leads training, inspections, audits, and corrective actions across functions, driving standardization and continuous improvement.

The position emphasizes safety, quality, and efficiency, coordinating with plant management and cross-functional teams to maintain compliance and optimize quality