Job Opportunities in South Africa
September 20, 2024
Lear Corporation
Port Elizabeth
Quality Manager
Driving the future of automotive. We’re Lear For You.
Company Overview
Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Our diverse team of talented employees in 39 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks #186 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com, or follow us on Twitter @Lear Corporation
Position overview:
We are looking for our Quality Manager, for our Port Elizabeth Plant.
Reporting directly to the Quality Senior Management, you will be in charge of supporting Lear in ensuring integrity / quality of the product. You will also oversee Lear EPMS in implementing, maintaining and integrating business management system. You will lead all quality assurance activities in manufacturing areas as well as any changes / APQP activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Key skills and Qualifications:
Why Lear
We offer a fantastic place to work, opportunity to grow and being part of a company who places its people first.
Lear Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workplace.
Applicants must submit their resumes for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.
Company Overview
Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Our diverse team of talented employees in 39 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks #186 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com, or follow us on Twitter @Lear Corporation
Position overview:
We are looking for our Quality Manager, for our Port Elizabeth Plant.
Reporting directly to the Quality Senior Management, you will be in charge of supporting Lear in ensuring integrity / quality of the product. You will also oversee Lear EPMS in implementing, maintaining and integrating business management system. You will lead all quality assurance activities in manufacturing areas as well as any changes / APQP activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible to define and implement the Plant Integrated Business System as well as to update it according to the Quality Manual and Procedures.
- Aiag requirements and customer specific requirements
- Vw beon submissions
- Knowledge of vw customer portal / standards
- Coordinate all 2nd and 3rd party system audit activities
- Vda 6.5 product audits
- Vda 6.3 process audits
- Maintain the ts16949: 2016 certification
- Customer quality representative for the plant
- Responsible to monitor internal audit activities and report on effectiveness of business system to management team
- Ensure Legal Compliance Audit is scheduled and performed annually and monitor close out of all items highlighted.
- Support Plant Manager to coordinate Annual Quality and EMS Reviews
- Report on quality metrics daily, weekly and monthly
- Quality Management Representative
- EMS Management Representative
- Defines, plans and implements advanced quality procedures for new products.
- Provides planning, leadership and consultative support for the implementation and maintenance of customer quality system requirements and continuous improvement methodologies at Plant level.
- Assure the correct management of the customer quality complaints, including the ones referred to as products which are under warranty.
- Ensure containment and rework activities at Lear or at the customer are performed effectively as per Lear procedure
- Authority to stop line / production to correct quality concerns
- Leads the necessary internal activity to avoid customer complaints.
- Follow-up the satisfaction quality indexes agreed with the customer and global Lear.
- Support Engineering Change and APQP / PPAP
- Maintain all records within area of responsibility.
- Define and maintain internal procedures (according to Lear policies) in area of responsibility.
Key skills and Qualifications:
- Technical University Degree (Preferred Industrial Technical Engineer, Electronics / Mechanics intensification). A formal recognized Quality and QMS qualification is essential
- First Experience in a first line quality management position in a medium to large plant preferably in an automotive manufacturing facility.
- Previous experience working with customer quality resolution advantageous
- Self-learner, autonomous , experience matrix organization ,
- Problem resolution skills/conflict management/clear communication
Why Lear
We offer a fantastic place to work, opportunity to grow and being part of a company who places its people first.
Lear Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workplace.
Applicants must submit their resumes for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.
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