Quality Manager
Role Overview
The Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring our products are manufactured according to established standards and for driving efficiency within the business by reducing cost of poor quality. The Quality Manager will work closely with Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, and Continuous Improvement to ensure best in class quality for new product introduction, manufacturing, and testing by establishing necessary Key Performance Metrics (KPIs), root cause & reliability assessments, corrective & preventative actions. The ideal candidate will have experience interacting with customers, leading transformational change through cross-functional leadership, demonstrating learning agility and have a history of leading teams and a history of leading robust quality management systems. The qualified candidate must be passionate about developing talent and bench strength, leading a team, and driving continuous improvement. This this is an individual contributor leadership role with the expectation that the leader will build a team the US Valve Quality function within 6-12 months. This role will require the leader to have hands-on experience with strong problem-solving capabilities, operational discipline, and a bias for action in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Key Skills for This Role
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WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Noise level is minimal with intervals of spikes.
Office working environment with occasional visits to the factory floor.
Required to wear safety glasses and utilize other safety equipment as required while present on shop floor.
Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?
Total Rewards
Benefits Package
Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/
IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.
Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application.
Qualifications
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Values: Acts with a high level of personal integrity and personally leads an inclusive & diverse team environment
- People Leadership: Track record of hiring and developing “A” players, developing high-performing teams, and building trust, credibility & followership, and bench strength
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Ability to drive cross-functional alignment to achieve quality and business commitments and goals
- Results orientation: Must have a bias for action and the ability to drive focus on the critical few holding self and others accountable for achieving quality targets
- Change Agent: Articulates need for changes and connects required change to success in an organization and creates followership to the desired state; demonstrated experience in manufacturing environment driving quality system transformation/optimization
- Comfort with Complexity: Learning agility and ability to thrive in a complex business by prioritizing daily activity
- Establishing focus: Organizing work, determining which potential and existing projects are the most urgent and important, and allocating resources effectively
- Discipline: Ability to drive a culture of process discipline
- Problem Solver: Data driven problem solving with expert knowledge in the use of quality tools and techniques such as D/PFMEA, SPC, CPK, MSA, 8D, DMAIC; operating with a continuous improvement mindset
- Servant Leadership: humble, authentic leader who seeks to remove barriers and enable people and the business; puts service, customers and team before self
- Strategic Thinker: Ability to develop and articulate future team, equipment, and process needs to support growth
- Experience with ERP systems ( JD Edwards preferred) and MS Office
- Experience working with site certifications such as ISO9001 and ISO14001
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills and facilitation of groups toward deliverables
- 10+ yrs of relevant experience in an industrial manufacturing environment; preferably medium to high-volume manufacturing equipment with increasing levels of responsibility and experience in leading a team
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical degree (Mechanical or Electrical preferred)
- Formal Training or Certification in Lean, Root Cause Analysis or Six Sigma preferred
- Proficiency in gaining or maintaining ISO9001 certification through the creation of or maintenance of an organization's QMS
- ASQ certification, or similar accreditation, a plus
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are represented of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing duties of the job, employee is required to move around and be still; use hands to handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Noise level is minimal with intervals of spikes.
- Office working environment with occasional visits to the factory floor.
- Required to wear safety glasses and utilize other safety equipment as required while present on shop floor.
- Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?
- Total Rewards
- Benefits Package
- Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/
- IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.
- Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application.
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