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Quality Lead

AT General Motors
General Motors

Quality Lead

Aurora, CO

CO Salary Range: USD 75,000.00 - 119,800.00 per year

Description

Onsite - This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report on-site on a full-time basis.

The Role

Responsible for overall direction and coordination of the facility's Quality administrative functions and Quality standardized processes. Assists in ensuring success of departmental function in a warehouse processing center or distribution center, to provide accurate and timely shipments to customers. Position may also include supervising a small team of union-represented employees.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

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  • Acts as a quality role model for team members by effectively reacting to quality issues, and strengthens the facility's quality culture by providing and communicating customer requirements and Best Practices initiatives.
  • Understands and consistently communicates defined customer requirements.
  • Displays an ability to interpret and manage large amounts of data in order to grasp difficult concepts and identify quality patterns and trends (e.g. Tableau).
  • Analyzes all quality issues to assist the operations team in developing effective quality related countermeasures.
  • Utilizes quality data analysis to assess compliance to customer requirements.
  • Provides information to Operations Management required to address outliers, oversights and noncompliance to processes (e.g. Quality Report Cards, Best Practices, and Top Ten Investigation process).
  • Regularly updates Plant Manager and team members with quality performance and improvement plans through IQS, Tableau, and other analytical tools (e.g. Monday Desk Drop).
  • Facilitates problem-solving discussions of Tableau data analysis with Operations Management Team. Such discussions are initiated by the Quality Supervisor when outlying quality trends are discovered.
  • Initiates and maintains quality communication by working with other facilities, WHQ Quality, Packaging, carriers, cross docks, and dealerships.
  • Understands, oversees implementation, and tracks compliance to Built-In-Quality (BIQ) Assessment statements and other applicable GMS principle statements.
  • Utilizes BIQ Feedback/Feedforward processes to effectively communicate Quality issues with internal and external customers (e.g. Defective and Unitized Incorrectly material review).
  • Ability to manage dissatisfied internal or external customers through constructive support. Displays managerial courage during interaction with customers.
  • Provides tools and training for team members to better understand GMS Built-In-Quality principles and defined customer requirements.
  • Ensures that all defects are confirmed and that Problem Reporting & Resolutions (PRR), Request for Inspections (RFI), QCF's, and Field Wires (FW) are answered within standard.
  • Supports the operation's utilization of the Business Plan Deployment (BPD) process. Assists in driving effective problem solving, continuous improvement, and supporting quality processes and initiatives (e.g. Customer Requirement Reviews).
  • Performs quality focused walks (e.g. Customer Requirement Reviews, Tableau Slotting Main Bin Comparison) and ensures participation of team members during walks.
  • Maintains a working knowledge of Material Returns procedures (e.g. proper categorization of MR Type returns in Parts Workbench, proper review of MR applications, work MR Termination and CCRC Transfer types, process RTD paperwork, collect handling fees, and process MR Code types upon receipt at facility).
  • Models GM's cultural behaviors and always demonstrates the highest level of integrity
  • Cultivates a safety culture, and implements and enforces workplace safety rules and policies
  • Demonstrates expertise in knowledge of the processes, and trains employees to ensure they are effectively performing job responsibilities utilizing standardized methods
  • Performs all other duties as assigned

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

  • Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience
  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or Access
  • Experience supervising employees in a union environment.
  • Experience supervising employees in a manufacturing environment.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedure.
  • Knowledge of basic math.
  • High level oral and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of basic technology of area where assigned.
  • High level analytical ability where problems are complex.
  • High level interpersonal skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization, motivate employees and elicit work output.
  • Ability to work any shift as dictated by the business
  • This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

  • The salary range for this role is ($75,000 - $119,800). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
  • Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

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Client-provided location(s): Aurora, CO, USA
Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202423110
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Stock Purchase Program
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Woman founded/led
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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