Quality Manager

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Establish and maintain a Quality Culture within local ABB, by assuring and controlling Quality with systems, tools and teams to exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations. In charge of developing & maintaining the Quality Management System of the local unit. Reporting to: Operations Manager and functionally to BU/Hub Quality Manager.

Your responsibilities

• Quality Assurance: Works with local management teams to: prevent mistakes and defects in products and avoid problems when delivering solutions or services to custom-ers, provide confidence that ABB and customer quality requirements will be fulfilled, focus on issue prevention rather than just control, establish customer and stakeholder needs/expectations, drive the utilization of process manage-ment across the local business to deliver consistent results, minimizing varia-tion and maximizing efficiencies.
• Quality Control: Ensures effective internal controls are in place to verify that processes contin-ue to meet customer and stakeholder requirements. Validates that control plans are applied and effective in mitigating know risks.
• Product Quality: Utilize ABB Group aligned systems and tools to assist the Engineering function with Product data and analysis to validate that Products continue to meet op-erational and customer expectations throughout their lifecycle. Validate APQP plans to assure effective introduction of new products.
• Quality Governance: Deploy and maintain the local Quality Management System to provide the local business with policies, regulations and processes that sufficiently describe the value chain activities. Lead the local management team in the application of an operational approach and system of process management that is continually evaluated for effectiveness.
• Quality Compliance: Performs audits and ensures the use of analytics of Quality data from all parts of the operation to identify risks, failures and non-conformances within the local business, its suppliers and customers. Ensures that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are taken and solutions are managed to closure.
• People Leadership and Development: Enables, with the support of HR, that the local Quality team is sustainably staffed, developed and directed in line with ABB Group QO guidance to provide support and leadership for the Quality activities that support the local business.

Your background

• A HNC/HND in relevant subject or equivalent experience in a Quality Manager/supervisory role.
• Lean Six Sigma Training advantageous. Experience in devising and reviewing project plans, documents, and specifications.
• Comprehensive understanding of quality control standards and legal standards.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis, mathematics, and statistical techniques.
• Previous experience in manufacturing and production processes.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, time-management, and leadership skills.
• Previous experience of hiring and training quality control personnel to assure effective performance through-out the production process.

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.