Director of Quality

Race Winning Brands (RWB) is a premier manufacturer of high-performance and racing components for the automotive and powersports industries. Renowned for its comprehensive product range, RWB offers advanced performance components including pistons, cylinder heads, valvetrain, connecting rods, crankshafts, and engine management systems. JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for supervising all employees (Quality Technicians, Quality Analysts, CMM Programmers, Calibration Technician, Inspectors) in the Quality Department and is responsible for covering multi-sites. Key essentials of this position include maintaining a safe, hazard-free work environment, planning and assigning work, enforcing policies and procedures, maintaining product quality standards, and recommending improvements for inspection methods, equipment, operating procedures and working conditions. This position shall ensure that Race Winning Brands products comply with established quality standards that meet or exceed customer expectations through the utilization of standardized work practices, quality processes, equipment improvements, and effective measurements. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership Maintains a positive, team environment relationship with employees by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing company systems, policies, and procedures Displays quality leadership by providing succession planning and development of the quality team Maintains workflow of quality inspections by monitoring steps of the inspection process; monitoring personnel and resources; studying inspection methods; developing and implementing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrective actions; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments Establishes daily and project related priorities and monitors progress; revises schedules and priorities as needed; resolves production, staffing, and resource constraints Ensures operation of equipment by coordinating required repairs, service, calibrations; evaluates new equipment and measurement techniques Provides quality KPI’s by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing inspection and measurement data; reports results to management Creates, implements, and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements Maintains safe and clean work environment; enforces compliance with established safety policies, procedures, and standards to quality employees Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviews professional publications; establishes personal networks; benchmarks state-of-the-art practices Leading and implementing continuous improvement projects that drive cost reductions Quality Maintain ISO 9001:2015 certification of Race Winning Brands Quality Management System Lead daily material review board (MRB) discussions Lead weekly customer claim discussion. Identify and assign appropriate actions to contain & correct, identify root causes and implement corrective actions Measure and track quality KPI’s and cost of quality Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering to train, certify, and audit production employees Assist with creation of tools to monitor and document compliance to procedures including incoming quality assurance Facilitate Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) of new product and/or process Assist in the development and adherence of inspection procedures Ensure the calibration of all measuring and test equipment Maintain quality records in accordance with established procedures Able to train and use various measuring tools during quality inspections Processes Improve productivity within the quality department while decreasing quality issues using lean tools including but not limited to: Support 6S Conduct root cause analysis of problems to identify appropriate solutions by using the 8D method approach Identify and decrease opportunities that create waste Identify and decrease process variation Help to develop and implement measurement systems to track and improve the processes Able to create and implement work instructions for current and new processes Race Winning Brands is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

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