Total 2 Director/C-Level Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 4LF

• Implements and sustains a comprehensive quality assurance and patient safety programs.
• Leads, develops and manages strategies for measurement aligned with external and internal benchmarks and standards of quality, patient safety, patient experience and risk management.
• Aligns activities, policies, process guidance and analysis (measurement, review, examination) with accreditation standards for quality, patient safety, patient experience, and risk management defined by TJC and AAAHC and industry recognized best practices from reputable sources.
• Develops work plans and performance evaluation criteria; ensures subordinates achieve Agency goals. Provides management direction and leadership under the general direction of the Office Director. Provides leadership, guidance, and direction for the IHS programs supporting and ensuring quality assurance, compliance, patient safety, and risk management. Formulates budget requests and develops related supporting justification narratives to meet program objectives of ensuring consistently high quality in all IHS clinical operations.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work; Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees; Evaluate work performance of subordinates; Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees, and refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; Interviews candidates for positions in the unit; recommends appointment, promotion, or reassignment; Hears and resolves complaints from employees, refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; Effects minor disciplinary measure of warnings and reprimands, and recommends other action in more serious cases; Identifies
  developmental and training needs of employees, provides or arranges for needed development and training; Finds ways to improve

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for providing leadership, direction, and management of all mechanical & electrical supplier-engagement activities in the HDD Operations

Main Interfaces:

The main customer is Factory and Development Engineering to ensure suppliers are qualified by QSR and capable of supporting HVM production, excursion-free.

Key partners include:

• Global Commodity Management (Direct & Indirect)
• OCCQ – Product Quality, Factory Quality, Customer Quality
• SPMO, Mfg/Product Engineering & Analytical Services
• Dev Engineering including validation team (QA-PMs)

Primary Accountabilities:

1) Lead, manage and develop the SQE team:

• Recruit, train and develop the SQE subject matter expertise
• Review progress, customer feedback and monitor KPIs
• Establish tools/processes/systems for higher productivity
• Regular reviews on career and growth

2) Supplier-Component/Sub-Assembly Level:

• Timely qualification (QMP, AVL approval )to support new product ramp readiness
• Roadmap initiatives (Variability Reduction, FMEA+, ZDM) technology transitions at suppliers for continuous process capability and process robustness improvement
• Deep dive session reviewing supplier improvement & engagement progress, review action plans to meet KPI and stretch targets
• Engage supplier’s executives during Get Well plan

3) WD Cross-Functional Facilitation:

• Design for Manufacturability and ensure specs are complete
• Create Lessons Learned to feedback design rules
• Recommend and influence supplier selection list for new product
• Support alternate source qualification in times of supply chain disruption (due to covid or natural disasters)
• Supplier ratings (QBR) and supplier selection

4) Other Collaboration:

• With Factory team to resolve and prevent component quality excursions
• With Mfg Engineering to resolve not fit-for-use issues
• With Product Engineering on optimization to improve drive yield