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Plant Quality Manager

Forvia Faurecia
Forvia Faurecia (Greater Pattaya Area)
Chonburi, Thailand 🇹🇭
Forvia Faurecia
Faurecia is a global automotive supplier with a mission to develop safe, sustainable, advanced, and customized mobility technologies. The company has four business groups, including seating, interiors, clean mobility, and electronics. Faurecia also offers solutions that align with its convictions and values to meet future generation challenges. It is part of the FORVIA group, which has over 300 industrial sites and 63 R&D centers across 40+ countries. FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMS worldwide and committed to making mobility transformation happen.

About this position

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader, is seeking a Plant Quality Manager to ensure all quality-related activities align with customer, product, and company guidelines while managing the quality system to comply with IATF16949 and enhance customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Quality Leadership: Appoint Quality Manager as the management representative and ensure alignment with FORVIA guideline and regulatory requirements.
• System Management: Assist the Plant Manager in managing quality activities, draft and manage Quality Management System documents, and implement quality policies and targets.
• Production Quality: Manage product quality during production, prevent defects, and control production quality. Report major quality incidents and provide corrective actions.
• Quality Testing: Conduct quality inspections, measurements, and testing, and manage testing equipment.
• Supplier Quality: Inspect and evaluate the quality of external procurement and subcontractors.
• Customer Focus: Handle customer quality disputes and satisfaction investigations.
• Audits: Conduct internal and external quality audits and assist in corrective actions.
• Training and Monitoring: Set quality targets, train staff, and monitor implementation processes. Take corrective and preventive measures.
• Reporting: Report on quality system performance and improvements to high-level management.
• Process Maintenance: Ensure the setup, implementation, and maintenance of the quality management system.
• Additional Tasks: Complete other tasks assigned by the manager.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, including roles in manufacturing engineering.
• Familiarity with production quality knowledge and OEMs’ quality systems is preferred.
• Skills And Competencies: TS16949 System and 5 Tools: Proficient.
• Quality Tools: Proficient in seven QC methods and 8D.
• Communication and Coordination Skills: Good.
• Language: English and Chinese proficiency.