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Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México
Onsite
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Job Summary
The Director of Quality is responsible for motors, motor gearbox assemblies, machining, testing, measurement systems, electronics drives and component quality, reliability, cost reduction and warranty mitigation. This is a critical role to support new product development and qualification, safe launch process, product transfers, product application engineering development, sustaining quality problem solving, customer and plant operation quality process controls. This position also provides quality direction and support to procurement to help select, qualify, and develop new suppliers to manufacture and measure product materials and parts. Finally, this role is to responsibly listen and professionally respond to the voice of the external and internal customers to manage improvement projects and metrics.Job Description
Role Overview
• Manage teams and projects to implement new products without quality, warranty or safety issues
• Manage New Product APQP & Safe Launch processes to proactively prevent issues
• Drive and implement action plans to improve quality metrics
• Manage projects to reduce Failure Costs of Quality
• Interact with customers and manage teams of functional groups to assure customer satisfaction
• Lead 8D problem solving meetings and implement actions to resolve customer problems
• Champion the business unit Six Sigma process to implement cultural change
• Lead quality projects to implement measurement equipment and quality systems
• Develop presentations and lead quality communications
• Implement Quality Management System to assure compliance to ISO and Nidec Way
• Travel to Nidec sites, suppliers and customers to verify product and process controls for quality
Qualifications
Education & Experience
Additional Job Details
Management – M4
Organizational Impact
• Recommends tactical and operational strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall business unit, department and/or job family group results
• Directs the execution of strategies established by functional and/or executive leadership
• Establishes operational plans for department and/or job family group with short- to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1-3 years)
• Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources, and frequently influences business decisions made by senior leadership
• Typically responsible for moderate revenue and/or expenditures in multiple areas or over multiple teams with moderate oversight, with signature authority
Communication & Influence
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own business unit, department, and/or job family, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the job family group, which may include clients or partners
• Works to influence others to accept job family group/business unit’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices and approaches. Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization
• May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the business unit/job family group. May at times be required to negotiate regarding operational issues
Innovation & Complexity
• Responsible for making significant improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of business unit, department and/or job family group
• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, where information is typically difficult to obtain
• Problems are frequently complex. Problems typically impact multiple business units and/or job family groups
• Problems are typically solved through drawing from extensive prior experience and analysis of issues
Leadership & Talent Management
• Manages a department or job family or a large team that includes multiple teams led by other people leaders
• Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/job family group/team to ensure availability of talent necessary to accomplish departmental business results
• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with Corporate Guidelines
Knowledge & Experience
• Requires advanced management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across multiple job family group
• Typically has mastery within a specific technical or broad expertise across multiple related disciplines
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certification and 10 years of prior relevant experience
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf
Work Shift Schedule
No Soliciting
Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.