Senior Quality Manager

Dana Canada Corp.; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dana is a global leader in engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies, seeking aQuality leader to drive plant quality initiatives and compliance with IATF 16949 across facilities. The role requires strategic oversight, problem solving, and active participation in corporate quality leadership, with travel as needed.

Responsibilities include implementing the OneDana Quality Operating System, maintaining robust audits, and coordinating with warranty teams to improve customer

Qualifications

• Motivated individual who accepts responsibility
• Excellent organizational, team building, problem solving, planning, decision-making and interpersonal skills
• Excellent English language skills with secondary language capability desirable
• Proficiency in written and oral communications; PC software; and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to Quality Managers in the field, ensuring that quality standards are implemented consistently across assigned facilities
• Lead all relevant global Quality and cross-functional activities, with emphasis on the roll-out, support and appropriate verification of the Dana Program Management and Advanced Quality processes
• Implement the OneDana Quality Operating System ensuring plants understand and comply with elements and applications used to ensure IATF 16949 and other standards or metrics that relate to customer scorecards
• Maintain and improve (and develop or remediate as necessary) quality systems and approaches consistent with all customer CSR’s, OneDana QOS and IATF16949 requirements, inclusive of a robust Management Review and auditing processes
• Actively participate on the Corporate Quality Leadership Team, and enforce Corporate Policies and Procedures
• Monitor quality activities; customer and supplier (internal and external) quality, customer relationships, proactive continuous improvement activities, technical problem-solving leadership and activities, corrective action activities, and field action management
• Support plants with initiatives for quality improvements and assist as needed with barriers to implementations
• Actively lead product safety and field action investigation activities as per Dana’s Product Safety and Field Action Notification and Approval Process
• Actively assist plants with issue escalation as required
• Maintain (and develop as necessary) key Quality metrics supporting customer satisfaction and BU operational goals
• Implement Corporate and BU Problem Solving systems and approaches
• Ensure 100% conformance to all customer and Dana policies and requirements including system tools and supporting data uploads
• Work closely with the Dana Warranty team to coordinate efforts and prioritize activities to achieve company and customer goals, and to maximize customer satisfaction

Skills

Motivated

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

English proficiency

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree / professional certifications

Job description

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Novi, MI, US, 48377 Maumee, OH, US, 43537

Requisition: 68100

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving two primary markets – passenger vehicle and commercial truck equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to Quality Managers in the field, ensuring that quality standards are implemented consistently across assigned facilities
• Lead all relevant global Quality and cross-functional activities, with emphasis on the roll-out, support and appropriate verification of the Dana Program Management and Advanced Quality processes
• Implement the OneDana Quality Operating System ensuring plants understand and comply with elements and applications used to ensure IATF 16949 and other standards or metrics that relate to customer scorecards
• Maintain and improve (and develop or remediate as necessary) quality systems and approaches consistent with all customer CSR’s, OneDana QOS and IATF16949 requirements, inclusive of a robust Management Review and auditing processes
• Actively participate on the Corporate Quality Leadership Team, and enforce Corporate Policies and Procedures
• Monitor quality activities; customer and supplier (internal and external) quality, customer relationships, proactive continuous improvement activities, technical problem-solving leadership and activities, corrective action activities, and field action management
• Support plants with initiatives for quality improvements and assist as needed with barriers to implementations
• Actively lead product safety and field action investigation activities as per Dana’s Product Safety and Field Action Notification and Approval Process
• Actively assist plants with issue escalation as required
• Maintain (and develop as necessary) key Quality metrics supporting customer satisfaction and BU operational goals
• Implement Corporate and BU Problem Solving systems and approaches
• Ensure 100% conformance to all customer and Dana policies and requirements including system tools and supporting data uploads
• Work closely with the Dana Warranty team to coordinate efforts and prioritize activities to achieve company and customer goals, and to maximize customer satisfaction

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s Degree / Professional Certifications preferred
• 12 years of experience in Quality with significant managerial experience
• Knowledge of IATF16949, ISO and AIAG requirements is mandatory
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Skills

• Motivated individual who accepts responsibility
• Excellent organizational, team building, problem solving, planning, decision-making and interpersonal skills
• Excellent English language skills with secondary language capability desirable
• Proficiency in written and oral communications; PC software; and presentation skills

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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Join our team of 28,000 problem solvers who are fostering a culture of innovation by leveraging the diverse perspectives of our global team. We believe in facing challenges head-on by finding opportunity and uncovering possibility, where roadblocks and barriers become targets instead of obstacles. We are One Dana with limitless opportunity.