Global Quality Director

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Job Summary

Job Description

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement global quality strategies to ensure adherence to high-quality standards and to meet customer expectations.
• Build processes in partnership with the functions to identify trends reported through our quality system and optimize our capacity to identify root causes, implement permanent corrective actions, and improve service levels.
• Manage quality initiatives in partnership with the Engineering, Technical Support, Customer Service, and Sales teams and operations through systematic methods.
• Lead a results-orientated process demonstrating continuous improvement whilst meeting the needs of the customer and the business.
• Develop and deploy best practices to improve first-pass yield rates while reducing PPM defect rates.
• Provide accurate and timely reports as required by Motion/Traction leadership.
• Provide leadership and support for customer quality issues and take corrective actions through root cause analysis.
• Work with the Site Manager to explore new methods of quality improvement improvements.
• Collaborate with other functions to ensure the entire organization has sufficient knowledge and capability for quality management and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Create, develop, and deploy an organizational construct to drive process consistency and accountability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent as required. Electric motor or electronics major is preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive quality management experience in industrial manufacturing, CMQ/OE certification is desirable, including 5 years of management experience at least.
• Strong business acumen and a proven track record of quality management.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including team building, coaching, and the ability to motivate people.
• Must be a highly results-oriented and customer-focused individual.
• Lean Six Sigma experience is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to travel.

Languages

• English mandatory. Other language skills are helpful.
  

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Global Mindset
• Leadership Capability
• Ability to work in Matrix Org
• Operates with Nidec Values
• Customer Focus
• Strategic Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Change Management
• Building Effective Teams
• Action Oriented
• Complexity Management

Range:$139K-$200K DOE

Additional Job Details

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
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No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.