Quality Manager

Location: Burnaby- Vancouver with an EMS organisation- specialising in the Aerospace industry.

CLOSING DATE: MARCH 31, 2020

(Relocation allowance is available and will be dependant on the offered candidates needs. This will be discussed at offer stage if selected for the position).

Responsibilities:

• A senior member of the  Global Quality Assurance team responsible for the implementation of Quality programs including ISO9001, AS9100, ISO14001 & ISO13485 and customer mandated requirements.
• Maintain and continually improve the applicable Quality and Environmental Certifications.
• Provide leadership to the Quality Assurance Team utilizing excellent leadership abilities that focus on team building and employee motivation.
• Collaborate with all functional areas to establish key performance scorecards (KPIs), measurements and key quality initiatives.
• Staying current with the changes in the standards and the applicable regulations.
• Lead in the development and implementation of our on the job training programs.
• Manage & coordinate the Internal Audit program for the company. Work towards the efficacy of the program.
• Identify potential risks before they become a problem, focusing on root cause analysis and preventive action.
• Manage the CAPA (Corrective Action & Preventive Action) that results from Internal/ External Audits or Internal/ Externally reported non-conformances.
• Nominated Environmental & Quality Management Representative of the company.
• Assure management reviews of the Quality/ Environment System are held and properly documented to reflect the status of the Quality/ Environment effectiveness and resulting improvement plans and actions.
• Ensure, encourage, and support implementation of the quality management systems and environment system throughout the facility.
• Handle non-conformance, incident/accident investigations and customer complaints.
• MRB and Purge: Participate in purge and MRB meetings to ensure proper disposition of discrepant material.
• Establish department goals and objective.
• Ensuring that continuous process improvement strategies are employed as a result of the internal Audit Program.
• Monitor process yields throughout the line. Recognize and help solve yield-decreasing problems and implement and drive internal corrective actions.
• Develop and then maintain ongoing meaningful Quality Engineering relationships between Creation Technologies, Customers and Suppliers.
• Lead cross-functional problem-solving teams and implement quality improvement tools and techniques using management and planning tools, quality tools, and preventive and corrective actions to overcome barriers to continuous quality improvements.
• Motivate companywide enthusiasm and participation at all levels in the continuous Improvement drive for Quality.
• Facilitate certification for IPC-A-610 specialists

The key skills required are:

• Strong leadership style- nurturing, mentoring, coaching
• Ability and proven track record of setting KPI’s and goals for team against business unit targets
• Experience working on a global scale at an exec level
• Ability to map out the strategic direction of the Quality division against long term organisational goals
• Experience of relevant aerospace ISO standards and working with FDA.

For more details and a confidential chat contact:

Emma Lawrenson
emma@emscoutltd.com

www.emscoutltd.com