Group Leader Quality Assurance GCA

What You'll Do

• Promote safe work practices and achieve objectives for ergonomics, health and safety and housekeeping.
• Maintain awareness of quality standards, global customer audit manual, communicate department quality goals and leverage resources to solve quality problems.
• Understand & Execute compliance to Design Tolerance Standard (DTS), and Global Customer Audit (GCA) Line Segments Ensure product integrity by execution of standardized work of all direct reports.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with employees, union and management.
• Bring leadership skills that help develop teams.
• Strong problem solving skills (utilizing data).
• Manage, Track, & Issue Voice of the Customer (Fast Response) Problem Solving Tasks Implement/follow systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues.
• Motivate, train and develop employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods.
• Facilitate/Lead daily plant leadership GCA meeting Influence their peers to accomplish plant goals.
• Coordinates input from internal/external customers to better understand customer needs and/or perceptions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to implement and apply GMS principles to both operations and maintenance.
• Control costs and achieve productivity improvements.
• Leads Problem Solving for First Time Quality, Global audits and Top Warranty Items.
• Supports manufacturing in the development of inspection methods and standards for control of non-compliant material.
• Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continuous improvement and key lean manufacturing/production principles and techniques to critical areas of production.
• Provides analysis of current and potential waste and makes recommendations to mitigate costs and risk.
• Ensures the manufacturing site is compliant to all procedural and compliance requirements.
• Understand and consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union.
• Utilize human resources in accordance with corporate policies and procedures and government regulations.
• Provide input to payroll and perform other administrative tasks as required.
• Required Qualifications: High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Corporate and divisional quality and reliability, standards, policies and procedures.
• Ability to use standard business applications software and/or specialized data analysis tools.
• Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement techniques to quality and manufacturing functions.
• Ability to work independently with initiative to achieve personal and company goals.
• Working knowledge of state-of-the-art quality inspection, quality engineering/assurance techniques, and general business operations.
• What Gives You a Competitive Edge (Basic Preferred): 1+ year of experience functioning in a quality/manufacturing setting.
• Prior experience functioning within a quality job assignment.
• Prior supervisory in an automotive setting.
• Red X, Six Sigma or equivalent technical problem solving training is desired, but not required. 

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