<p><strong>Primary purpose of the job:</strong></p><p>Develop, implement and maintain Quality Assurance Systems to ensure Quality parts to internal and external customers.</p><p><strong>Key Performance Areas:</strong></p><p>Maintenance of Quality Management System</p><p>Ensure all process control documents are updated</p><p>Establish and maintain scrap reduction ideas</p><p>Incoming components Quality</p><p>Overall Plant Quality</p><p>Customer Quality contact</p><p>Facilitate problem solving in the plant</p><p>Manage performance of sub-ordinates.</p><p>Respond promptly to customer complaints</p><p><strong>Knowledge and Skills required:</strong></p><p>Quality Management System</p><p>Manufacturing Processes (Stamping, Welding, Measuring Equipment, Customer Processes)</p><p>Measuring Equipment knowledge</p><p>Measuring report analysis</p><p>Quality Core Tool (PFMEA, Control plan, MSA, SPC)</p><p>ISO/TS 16949 Standards and internal auditing</p><p>Leadership and facilitation</p><p>Problem solving techniques</p><p>Communication skills</p><p>Decision making skills</p><p>Report writing and Presentation.</p><p><strong>Minimum Requirements </strong></p><p>NQF Level 5</p><p>Education: ND/B:tech Mechanical Engineering (Qualified tool jig and die maker N4) advantageous.</p><p>Training in Core tool: PFMEA, Control plan, MSA, SPC computer literate.</p><p>Minimum 3-years experience in quality within the manufacturing environment</p><p>Minimum 3 years experience in a stamping environment in the automotive industry</p><p>Minimum 3 years experience within a Process engineering or Quality discipline</p>

<p><strong>Brief Role Description</strong></p><p><em>To plan, define, and lead all departmental project activities, by ensuring that all units are tracked, processed, audited, reworked and signoff, throughout the various EOL checkpoints and audits areas, within the prescribed project timelines, enabling a good quality product and effortless management signoff process. Drive product improvements based on top faults detected by investigating route causes and escalating to the causing area to improve the Direct Run Rate.</em></p><p><strong>Possible Tasks within this Role</strong></p><p>Managing and driving all projects related activities for QAVM EOL, during the different phases by ensuring that units are tracked and routed through the correct processes and audited within the agreed timelines.</p><p>Identifying and understanding all new product and process part changes for MY and New model introduction, and presenting to team, for ease of understanding, and inspection, thereby enabling a good sign off product.</p><p>Representing QAVM EOL at all inter divisional projects meetings, and assist, identify and highlight non-conformities and opportunities for improvements, in order to streamline or improve processes.</p><p>Performing and approving all fitment trails of new and changed product parts, prior to introduction with responsible departments, to ensure that parts conform to the required quality specifications, and the desired quality standards are achieved.</p><p>Preparing and presenting project units to management, with the knowledge and background of each unit, and with the relevant information and documentation, to ensure units conform to the required quality acceptant standard, for management signoff.</p><p>Providing information of ECRs and deviations to the team, thereby ensuring that the team is aware and understands the changes and the expectation of quality, when con-ducting inspection, or DKA audits, to ensure a good signoff quality product.</p><p>Escalating the process when quality requirements are not met, to ensure that early preventative actions are taken by the responsible stakeholders, thereby ensuring deadlines are met. (Thorough problem investigation and presentation on a management level)</p><p>Generating project investments requirements, and control expenditure within the approved budget and help to set financial objectives with QAVM EOL Manager.</p><p><strong>Qualification requirements</strong></p><p>National Diploma/Degree in an Engineering field</p><p><strong>Experience Needed</strong></p><p>Minimum +-5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience</p><p>Essentials</p><p>Understanding of the vehicle build process and the required quality output thereof. e.g., EOL &amp; Assembly)</p><p>In-depth knowledge of vehicle release processes</p><p>Knowledge of vehicle components and systems.</p><p>Working knowledge of the equipment, fixtures and tools used in the shop.</p><p>Good computer skills (MS office package, SharePoint and company Group systems)</p><p><strong>Added Advantage</strong></p><p>B-Tech in Quality</p><p> </p><p><em>Should you meet the minimum requirements, please forward your updated CV and supporting documents to <a href="mailto:*****@*****.co.za">*****@*****.co.za</a></em></p>