Quality Process Improvement Leader

Job Description Summary

What impact you'll make?

Support the entire factory quality process improvement initiatives and drive systemic improvements in key quality metrics. Strengthen and improve Quality management System (QMS) including ISO requirements. Lead, support and improve hourly and salaried quality team(s)

Job Description

What you'll do

• Manage projects and continuous improvement efforts in accordance with Quality metrics.
• Lead Problem Solving and RCA activities related to COPQ and Quality system / manufacturing related issues.
• Compile, trend and report Quality metrics in relation to improvement activities.
• Mentor individuals and drive a robust training program for Quality related roles/activities.
• Maintain and improve quality process documentation and enforce to ensure consistent quality.
• Drive standards in problem solving and improvements across the factory
• Implement, maintain and continuously improve processes using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
• Drive a culture change in Continuous Improvement and Quality Stop Work initiatives/ Layered Process Reviews.
• Provide input on new product introductions or new processes as required
• Manage / Drive scraping processes on factory level
• Analyze customer complaints and professionally support customer communication. Initiate and coordinate corrective and preventive actions
• Improve quality processes focusing on customer satisfaction and competitiveness through six sigma and lean tools
• Monitor, analyze and improve main quality indexes (cost, defect rate, QCR cycles). Initiate improvement action for relevant parties like quality and manufacturing engineers, SQEs, requisition engineers
• Develop process auditing routines to assure compliance to established procedures, maintain area in a condition that support ISO compliance and report it to the management
• Lead technical regulation and standard product and process audits, address non-conformities
• Represent production area on internal and external audits

• Bachelor's degree from preferably Engineering or Quality from an accredited university or college
• Experience in leading Manufacturing, Quality or highly cross-functional teams
• Change agent, with strong credibility at all levels of the organization
• Expertise in Six Sigma Quality concepts and tools (DFSS, DMAIC, Design and Process FMEA , MSA, SPC, etc.)
• Competency in RCA (8D/DMAIC/PSR)
• Strong communication skills in Hungarian and in English as well
• Leadership skills

• Experience in working with and communicating to Customers
• Strong analytical skills with ability to identify and explain critical and complex issues.
• Six sigma/lean practitioner expertise is preferred, with experience of process simplification in a Quality context
• Logical thinking, precise, good communication and team facilitation
• Good problem solving and process improvement skills, team spirit behavior,
• High level of technical drawing interpretation skills, organization skills, openness to new challenges
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously