Quality Manager

Job overview

The Quality Manager is an onsite role based in Champaign, IL. The position offers a salary range of $90,000 - $126,000 per year. This role supports the quality team at Hyundai Transys Georgia Seating System, LLC, an automotive seating manufacturer. The role exists to ensure that all seating systems meet customer, internal, and regulatory standards. The Quality Manager leads the plant quality team, drives compliance and continuous improvement, and acts as a key liaison with OEM customers.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and develop the quality team (inspectors, technicians, engineers) to drive performance, engagement, and professional growth.
• Promote a proactive quality culture throughout the organization by training, coaching, and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Maintains quality management system (QMS) in compliance with ISO/IATF 16949 requirements and customer specifications.
• Oversee day-to-day quality operations, including incoming material inspection, in-process control, and final product audits to ensure they meet the established quality requirements and standards.
• Responsible for IATF16949, ISO9001, or other related or customer specific certifications and process.
• Develops and implements plans for internal and external product, process, and system audits including those from existing and new customers.
• Implement quality control and quality management processes to ensure consistent and high-quality production output.
• Establish and maintain quality standards, procedures and processes.
• Analyze quality metrics and lead root cause analysis and corrective/preventative actions.
• Monitor production to detect and address quality issues and nonconformances.
• Engage with customers to establish a positive working relationship, gather feedback, promptly respond to issues with resolutions.
• Investigate customer complaints and issues to determine root cause and implement corrective actions.
• Develop and deliver training programs to educate employees on quality awareness and best practices.
• Evaluate and analyze data to identify trends, performance metrics and recommend areas for improvement.
• Manage and maintain documentation and records related to quality assurance and control.
• Conduct regular audits of production processes, products and suppliers to ensure compliance with quality standards and specifications.
• Create and manage PPAP/ISIR process, and provide instruction to teams to successfully measure components and assemblies and fill out the proper dimensional PPAP/ISIR forms.
• Responsible for the inspections according to the quality management system / control plans /agreements with customers.
• Responsible for data administration and archiving of quality documents, samples and measurement instruments.
• Determination of preventive measurements to assure quality with production, managements and project teams.
• Work on cross-functional team through a PFMEA review and create/finalize the PFMEA.
• Perform/initiate capability studies, GR&R/MSA studies, interpret the results, and provide recommendations.
• Understand the customer requirements for testing and ability to interpret and fill out the proper PPAP/ISIR forms.
• Understand injection molding, welding processes and able to create work instructions and possibly process flow diagrams.
• Read customer drawings, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), and provide interpretation.
• Understand part functions and the ability to create GD&T schemes based on those understandings and interface those ideas with the customer.
• Interface with the customer to get gauge concepts, create gauges, and obtain designs approval.
• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

full-time

day shift

champaign il

hyundai transys

quality manager

automotive

manufacturing

quality assurance

management

$90k-$126k/yr

onsite

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• 401(k), Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Supplemental Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid time off

Why this role

Automotive Tier 1 environment, leadership role, focus on quality management systems and customer relations.

About the employer

Hyundai Transys Georgia Seating System, LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: Motor Vehicle Seating and Interior Trim Manufacturing. Sector: 33.