Quality Manager

The Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring that all seating systems manufactured meet customer, internal, and regulatory standards. This role leads the plant quality team in a fast-paced Tier 1 automotive environment and is a key liaison with OEM customers. The Quality Manager drives a culture of compliance, accountability, and continuous improvement while fostering strong employee leadership and cross-departmental collaboration.

The Quality Manager:

• Leads, mentors, and develops the quality team (inspectors, technicians, engineers) to drive performance, engagement, and professional growth
• Promotes a proactive quality culture throughout the organization by training, coaching, and influencing cross-functional teams
• Maintains quality management system (QMS) in compliance with ISO/IATF 16949 requirements and customer specifications.
• Oversees day-to-day quality operations, including incoming material inspection, in-process control, and final product audits to ensure they meet the established quality requirements and standards
• Responsible for IATF16949, ISO9001, or other related or customer specific certifications and process
• Develops and implements plans for internal and external product, process, and system audits including those from existing and new customers.
• Implements quality control and quality management processes to ensure consistent and high-quality production output.
• Establishes and maintains quality standards, procedures and processes.
• Analyzes quality metrics and leads root cause analysis and corrective/preventative actions
• Monitors production to detect and address quality issues and nonconformances.
• Engages with customers to establish a positive working relationship, gather feedback, promptly respond to issues with resolutions.
• Investigate customer complaints and issues to determine root cause and implement corrective actions
• Develops and delivers training programs to educate employees on quality awareness and best practices.
• Evaluates and analyzes data to identify trends, performance metrics and recommend areas for improvement
• Manages and maintains documentation and records related to quality assurance and control.
• Conducts regular audits of production processes, products and suppliers to ensure compliance with quality standards and specifications.
• Creates and manages PPAP/ISIR process, and provides instruction to teams to successfully measure components and assemblies and fill out the proper dimensional PPAP/ISIR forms
• Responsible for the inspections according to the quality management system / control plans /agreements with customers
• Responsible for data administration and archiving of quality documents, samples and measurement instruments
• Determines preventive measurements to assure quality with production, managements and project teams
• Works on cross-functional team through a PFMEA review and create/finalize the PFMEA
• Performs/initiates capability studies, GR&R/MSA studies, interprets the results, and provides recommendations
• Understands the customer requirements for testing and ability to interpret and fill out the proper PPAP/ISIR forms
• Understands injection molding, welding processes and able to create work instructions and possibly process flow diagrams
• Reads customer drawings, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), and provides interpretation
• Understands part functions and the ability to create GD&T schemes based on those understandings and interface those ideas with the customer
• Interfaces with the customer to get gauge concepts, create gauges, and obtain designs approval
• Maintains current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies

Reporting:

• Reports to: CEO

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Supplemental Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid time off

Competency Requirements:

1. Confidentiality: Adheres to the upmost confidentiality; particularly in regard to handling employment/personal information. Works with the team to ensure that all information from within the department is kept private.
2. Multitasking: Must possess the ability to change from one task to another in quick manner based on company needs
3. Communication: Works to ensure respectful, timely, accurate and appropriate communication across all levels of the organization.
4. Initiative: Identifies problems and takes action to address current or future problems. Proactively engages to solve issues verses simply thinking about future actions.
5. Engagement: Engages team members in developing goals, executing plans and delivering results (output). Motivates team members through clear and consistent communication. Models' adaptability. Uses collaboration and influence skills to achieve successful outcomes.
6. Leads by Example: Sets a good example for peers to follow.
7. Integrity: Performs in such a way as to inspire a high degree of trust and acceptance amongst co-workers across all departments
8. Customer Service Orientation: Focuses efforts on discovering and meeting the customer's needs. Develops trust in all relationships internally and externally.
9. Organizational and Self Discipline: Efficiently organizes and executes assignments. Demonstrates self-discipline and reliability.
10. Analytical Skills / Problem Solving: Understands situations, problems, or issues by breaking them down into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way. Systematically organizes the parts of problems. Makes systematic comparisons of data or aspects, prioritizing, planning, and developing countermeasures.
11. Flexibility / Adaptability: Adapts and works effectively in a variety of situations and with various individuals or groups. Seeks and appreciates opposing perspectives on issues. Adapts approach as the requirements of the situation change.
12. Works Safely: Strives for an accident-free workplace. Keeps safety at the "heart" of everything done. Treats safety as a personal responsibility and sees oneself as being responsible for the safety of others.
13. Teamwork: Contributes meaningfully to work group efforts by offering new ideas for improvement. Demonstrates a cooperative manner in dealing with supervisors and other team members. Does his/her part toward group effort
14. Mutual Respect and Support: Works cooperatively with others. Welcomes and takes advantage of opposing ideas and opinions are always respectful to others.

Technical Competency:

Displays knowledge & skills necessary to perform assigned duties; understands Processes, procedures, standards, methods and technologies related to assignments; demonstrates functional/technical literacy; participates in measuring outcomes of work; keeps current on new developments in field of expertise effectively uses available technology (automation, software, etc.)

*Applies companywide but are specifically defined per position essential functions.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Task - Demand - Remark - Physical Task - Demand - Remark

Stand / Walk - Frequent (34 - 66%) - Forceful Grip - Occasional (5-33%)

Sit - Frequent (34 66%) - Fine Manipulation - Constant (67-100%) - Computer work

Bend/Stoop/Squat - Rare (1 - 5%) - Lift - Occasional (1 60 reps) - 25 lb. max

Forward Reach - Occasional (5-33%) - Carry - Occasional (1 60 reps) - 25 lb. max

Overhead Reach - Rare (1 - 5%) - Push / Pull - Occasional (1 60 reps) - 40 lb. max

The employee generally works in indoor office and warehouse environments.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hyundai Transys Georgia Seating System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Hyundai Transys Georgia Seating System is committed to achieving a diverse workforce through application of its equal opportunity