Job Description
The Production Quality Supervisor at Gotion Inc. is responsible for leading a team of quality inspectors, ensuring production processes meet quality standards, managing non-conforming materials, and driving continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment focused on electric vehicle batteries.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise, mentor, and schedule quality inspectors to ensure consistent quality checks across production shifts
- Monitor and enforce the implementation of control plans on the production line
- Collect, review, and analyze production and quality data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
- Lead root cause analysis and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented
- Manage non-conforming product areas, including documentation and disposition records
- Oversee rework and repair processes, ensuring proper instructions, execution, and testing verification
- Conduct regular inspections of production processes to identify gaps and initiate improvement plans
- Perform layered process audits and evaluate inspector performance
- Develop and maintain standard inspection guidelines and work instructions
- Maintain accurate records of quality activities and documentation
- Stay current with industry quality standards and manufacturing best practices
- Provide on-the-floor coaching to production operators to reinforce quality standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
- 8 years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
- 3 years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment with leadership or supervisory experience.
- Experience in supervising, mentoring, and scheduling quality inspectors to ensure consistent execution of quality checks across all production shifts.
- Ability to monitor and enforce the implementation of the control plan on the production line, including inspection methods, inspection frequency, standards, and corrective action requirements.
- Experience collecting and reviewing production and quality data such as defect rates, return rates, and process capability indices (CPK, PPK, CMK).
- Ability to identify quality trends, risks, and improvement opportunities, escalate issues as needed, and propose preventive measures.
- Experience leading root cause analysis activities and ensuring corrective and preventive actions are implemented and sustained.
- Experience managing non-conforming product areas and maintaining required documentation, including disposition records and tracking ledgers.
- Experience overseeing rework and repair processes, ensuring proper instructions, execution, documentation, and testing verification.
- Ability to conduct regular inspections of each production process to identify gaps, compliance concerns, or quality risks and initiate improvement plans.
- Experience performing layered process audits and ensuring inspector performance aligns with quality and compliance expectations.
- Ability to develop, update, and maintain standard inspection guidelines and work instructions.
- Experience maintaining accurate quality activity records including inspection results, audit logs, and corrective action documentation.
- Knowledge of industry quality standards and manufacturing best practices to support optimization of the plant quality management system.
- Ability to provide on-the-floor coaching to production operators to reinforce quality awareness and standards.
- Working knowledge of quality management systems ISO 9001 and IATF 16949.
- Familiarity with Kaizen, CAPA, and DOE tools.
- Proficiency in quality tools and methods such as SPC, FMEA, 8D, 5Why, Fishbone diagrams.
- Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and cross-functionally.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Experience with quality management software is preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform effectively in a fast-paced production environment.
Benefits & Perks
U.S. base salary range of $110,000.00 - $135,000.00, plus eligibility for bonus and benefits
Work environment with opportunities for coaching, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration
Potential eligibility for bonus and benefits
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