Quality Manager--QAQAZ2

Long Description

General Characteristics and purpose
Oversees and leads the quality assurance/quality management unit, and translates the quality strategy to quality procedures and guidelines, in line with applicable policies, legislation and country strategy, in order to ensure the realization of objectives for the own area.

Representative Activities

• Initiates, plans, develops and implements quality processes and practices. 
• Ensures development of quality procedures, standards and specifications.
• Leads the quality assurance/quality management unit; determine priorities and allocate work to quality teams.
• Coordinates with manufacturing and other internal departments to define and to resolve product quality problems. 
• Coordinates internal and external audits.
• Coordinates with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers.
• Leads and coordinates quality related projects. 
• Ensures issuing of technical documentation for customers aimed at certifying organization’s products’ reliability, safety and guarantee.
• Implements, maintains and improves quality systems across all organizational processes.

Scope Variants
Strategy & Policy

Critical contribution to strategy development of company QA strategy while formulating QA policies, structures and processes for functional discipline

Business impact

Has an impact on the total organization at a strategic level

Management breadth

Cooperation transcends own functional discipline; has multiple interfaces with other disciplines/parties to manage cooperation with other functions

Plant complexity

High number of production lines (>3)

Production environment

Highly developing production environment
R&D activities in plant: development/testing of new products