Take our Quality and Safety Programs to the next level!

We currently have Quality / Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Manager roles in each of our Franklin, WI and Racine, WI offices.

The Manager, Quality Assurance / Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) manages the day-to-day functions of the Quality and Environmental Health & Safety departments to ensure that Company policies, operations, and procedures meet customer, Company, Industry, and Regulatory quality and EH&S requirements. Develops plans and processes to meet company goals and objectives and is the facility representative on the respective functional councils for the purpose of driving Best-in-Class performance objectives in Safety, Quality and Continuous Improvement.

Responsibilities:
• Effectively manage and advance all aspects of site manufacturing – Environmental Health & Safety and Quality.
• Lead and coach teams by establishing business and personal accountability plans and manage activities and goal attainment to the company's Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), specifically Safety (TRIR), and Quality (DPPM).
• Manages the Quality / customer interface to proactively assure requirements are understood and satisfied
• Responsible for the problem resolution process, whether internal or customer identified issue, which includes ensuring timing deadlines are met and using standard reporting tool
• Conduct audits and record observations to proactively identify and mitigate hazards. Drive continuous safety improvements by recommending enhancements.
• Responsible for Customer Scorecard performance and engaging the applicable department or area in root cause/corrective action activity if not meeting requirements.
• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly operational progress reports to management.
• Ensure that the work environment is meeting safety and health standards and that equipment is well-maintained and is functioning in a reliable manner; Identify action based EH&S goals for site leadership team members, functional managers, and front-line leaders to support achievement of the site’s EH&S targets and objectives.
• Lead and mentor direct reports, building their management and decision-making skills, continuously promoting a culture that is focused on success, and emphasizing respect, trust, and empathy in the workplace.
• Promote a culture of employee engagement in quality, safety processes and continuous improvement processes.
• Ensure compliance, through implementation and management of facility Quality and EH&S programs, policies and procedures that comply with regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.
• Manage the development of and the compliance of the overall quality assurance and quality control programs at the facility.
• Monitor quality through internal corrective action process and implementation of metrics to ensure that the products are of the highest quality and in compliance with company policies.
• Represent manufacturing site in both Quality and EH&S on the respective functional councils for purpose of driving Best-in-Class performance objectives in both Safety and Quality.
• Review injuries and other significant near-miss incidents to determine root cause and corrective action.
• Address customer returned warranty work from customer.
• Facilitate a minimum of one (1) ISO required Management Review annually, as well as training as deemed necessary.
• Ensure that operations comply with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health and safety standards, including any contractual agreements, and assure all required records are prepared and maintained.
• Utilize the EH&S and Quality Maturity Index tools to drive improvement.
• Lead the site Safety Committee.
• Develop and maintain a matrix to assure timely completion of EH&S training.
• Assist with employee on-boarding and completion of new hire orientation.
• Work with Supply Chain Management (SCM) on supplier quality development and improvement objectives.

Additional responsibilities:
• Gather and enter metrics into the Data Warehouse for the following KPI’s:.

Safety
• Achieve TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) goal (<2.08 TRIR in 2021). Yearly goal is set during business planning process.
Quality
• Achieve DPPM (Defective Parts Per Million) goal (<750 DPPM in 2021). Yearly goal is set during business planning process.
• Achieve FPY (First Pass Yield) goal (> 95% FPY in 2021). Yearly goal is set during business planning process.
Quality Management System (QMS)
• Ensure all elements of the MOS are in place and functioning as designed to drive overall operational performance