Quality Assurance Supervisor

  • Thyssenkrupp
  • Danville, Illinois
  • Full Time

Supervisory Responsibility:

The Quality Assurance Supervisor provides leadership, mentoring and supervision of the Process Quality assurance team to ensure compliance with overall company objectives while achieving overall customer satisfaction.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, a successful candidate will be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field required with 5 years of experience in Quality and/or Engineering field. Experience in automotive preferred.
  • Language: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, OEMs, or employees of organization.
  • Technology: Working knowledge of IATF 16949, APQP-PPAP, FMEA, MSA, 8D, Statistics, GD&T and mechanical manufacturing processes.
  • Travel: Occasional travel, up to 10% including international.

Key Deliverables:

The Quality Assurance Supervisor serves as an engaged and trusted source in the organization. Success in this role is measured by the reduction of internal scrap costs and the minimization of quarantine stock intake., through the development and promotion of the zero defects concept at the plant. Key deliverables to ensure success are listed below:

  • Maintains a safe working environment by complying with all safety and environmental policies in the workplace. Advocates for and promotes a safe work environment by reporting Near Misses and/or other safety and environmental hazards, wearing all required PPE and encouraging others to do the same.
  • Has authority to stop processes to correct quality, safety or environmental problems, identify and place suspect product on quality hold, and to promptly notify Supervisory personnel when processes become noncompliant.
  • Promote and teach quality assurance and zero defects philosophy to other departments
  • Monitors quality assurance objectives complementary to company policies and goals.
  • Monitors and supports change of operational procedures and documentation for serial production.
  • Develop and implement quality programs, including tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem solving of serial production activities.
  • Supporting the collection of reports to analyze and summarize quality data and make recommendations to the management team.
  • Identify risks and weaknesses in production processes, support root cause analysis and propose solutions.
  • Provides support for process-related corrective action implementation, quality-related production documentation, studies and activities necessary to increase control and lower cost of poor quality, implementing and validating Poke Yoke/Error Proofing methods, and internal complaint activities.
  • Generates improvements and updates to process flow, control plans, and PFMEAs to all assigned SQDC Areas, coordinates the change.
  • Provides direction for scrap reduction activities in serial production.
  • Leads/Supports Six-Sigma and Top 5 Scrap projects as needed.
  • Oversees internal deviation activities.
  • Works in coordination with production and quality control teams for disposition of suspect products.
  • Provides technical and process direction to Manufacturing, Production, and Quality Departments.
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • Supervisory personnel have been delegated responsibility and authority to add additional inspection steps necessary to ensure product quality when processes become noncompliant.

thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components is one of the world's automotive industry leading partners for development and manufacturing of highly complex, state-of-the-art drivetrain technologies for both combustion engines and electric motors. Worldwide, 10 locations with 3,800 employees produce over 25 million drivetrain components per year. The product portfolio includes camshafts and cylinder head cover modules for the valve train as well as rotor shafts for battery electric vehicles.

Our electrical A/C compressor, designed for the natural refrigerant CO2, sets new standards in efficient and sustainable thermal management.

With precision and passion, we are enabling our customers in the automotive industry to achieve their emission and sustainability targets for more than 30 years.

Supervisory Responsibility:

The Quality Assurance Supervisor provides leadership, mentoring and supervision of the Process Quality assurance team to ensure compliance with overall company objectives while achieving overall customer satisfaction.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, a successful candidate will be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field required with 5 years of experience in Quality and/or Engineering field. Experience in automotive preferred.
  • Language: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, OEMs, or employees of organization.
  • Technology: Working knowledge of IATF 16949, APQP-PPAP, FMEA, MSA, 8D, Statistics, GD&T and mechanical manufacturing processes.
  • Travel: Occasional travel, up to 10% including international.
Job ID: 483852862
Originally Posted on: 7/3/2025

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