Yamaha Motor Manufacturing a leading manufacturer of recreational vehicles located in Newnan, GA currently has an opportunity for a Unit Manager SQA

Unit Manager-SQA Req1750

Exempt

8-5pm   M-F

Position Summary:

  Supplier quality management position within the Quality Assurance Division, reporting to Quality Assurance Division Manager.  Responsible for all aspects of supplier quality assurance management.  Responsible for the human resource management within SQA Unit Department.  Responsible for cross-functional managements and providing support to manufacturing in the area of supplier quality improvement and production launch (new & changed products) phase.   Interfaces with Product Design, Service, Purchasing Dept., ME, Production Control, YMUS and YMC to develop supplier quality improvement plan and manage its execution.

 Job Responsibilities:

 Responsible for:

• YMMC Supplier Quality Assurance Manual management.
• Designing an annual action plan (MBOP: Management by Objective Plan) as well as three year action direction plan (MTP: Mid-Term-Plan), based on the YMMC Policy Management Direction, to improve the entire supplier chain quality.
• Planning the department budget and maintaining the entire activities within the budget that has been approved.
• Managing and coordinating both quality Kaizens and the problem solving activities at suppliers and within YMMC after production launch Responsible for management of DMD, OFI (Opportunity-for-Improvement), SCAR (Supplier Corrective Action Report) and SQAP (Supplier Quality Action Plan) for problem resolution in the areas of SPR Loss / Downtime and Warranty Claims.
• Key Qualification: SQA Manager shall possess the high level of the Quality Problem Solving experience & skill sets.
• Management of developing, documenting and reviewing quality systems, standards, and procedures as required.
• Management of developing process controls (Control Plan & PFMEA), SPC, and other statistical methods with suppliers.
• Management of developing and implementing quality metrics to monitor internal and supplier quality performance.
• Planning and managing the on-site audits by SQE at suppliers and supplier-charge back, as required.
• Incoming inspection management and on-site sort and rework activities. (Outsourced company support is available at YMMC.)
• Communicating supplier quality status to upper management and cross functional department members.
• Supporting ASQE (Advanced Supplier Quality Engineering) Unit in Purchasing Division in the area of PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) on new and changed model introductions within YAMAHA supplier chains.
• Communicating management directions to all members within the SQA Unit Department.
• All human resource management of both salary and hourly members and adhering to all company rules and policies.
• Management of implementation and execution of all ISO-9001 procedures and strive for simplification.
• Managing of all other duties necessary to ensure business success.

Education Experience:

 4 year engineering degree or technical management experience is required.

Minimum of 5-years of experience in Quality Assurance Management. (Preferably with the same company) supplier quality assurance management experience is a plus, but not required.

Other Required Skills:

• High level of the Quality Problem Solving experience & technical knowledge is required.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks/assignments in the very fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with applied experience working in a challenging and cross-functional team environment at both YAMAHA and suppliers.
• Ability to create technical documentation with computer applications such as Microsoft word, excel, power point, access dBase, all other unique YAMAHA dBase system.

Qualified Candidates will have experience:

• Maintaining consistent track record of corrective action of quality defects
• Managing and leading suppliers to provide corrective actions in a timely manager to meet the need of our fast-pace manufacturing environment
• Developing and providing analytical and data driven records to develop action plans for improvements

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package including medical, dental, 401k and paid holidays and vacation.

Email, fax or mail resumes to Job Code: Req1750

ymmc.recruiter@ymmc.yamaha-motor.com

Fax 770-254-4041

Yamaha Motor Manufacturing

1000 GA Hwy 34 East

Newnan, GA 30265