Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain the Kuraray EVAL quality management system compliance with designated management standards that include ISO9001-2015, ISO14001-2015 and IATF14969
- Report the status of the Kuraray EVAL quality management system to site leadership periodically
- Management of the EVAL corrective action request system to improve quality performance and ensure compliance with ISO9001, ISO14001 and IATF14969
- Schedule, manage and assist the internal audit program and third-party certification audits
- Maintain all documentation for the Quality Management System
- Manage timely response to Kuraray customer quality management system questionnaires
- Facilitate formal Root Cause Analysis of quality and other incidents periodically
- Coordinate the corrective action request system to improve quality performance and ensure compliance with quality standards, customers, and organization's QMS.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment and quality assurance activities (Audits, CARs, RCA)
- Excellent working knowledge of relevant quality management standards (ISO9001, ISO14001, IATF16949) and related management systems
- Training and experience in utilization of Root Cause Analysis methods in a manufacturing environment
- Soft skills to act as a facilitator for audits, incident and quality issue investigations and enable teamwork with different departments and teams in the plant, across the business and with global quality teams
- Professional written, verbal and presentation skills including proficiency in data analysis and communication
Specialized Skills and Abilities:
- Familiar with FMEA or other risk analysis methods preferred
- Proficiency with Power BI document management and workflow preferred.
