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Working in close partnership with our customers, we solve complex engineering challenges to transform the way we fly, drive, and power. Through the ingenuity of our people and cutting-edge advanced manufacturing techniques, we deliver these products at a quality and efficiency that ensure customer success and shareholder value.\nHowmet Wheel Systems (HWS) is a business unit with a rich tradition and a bright future. We invented the forged wheel in 1948 and have remained the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products ever since. ALCOA® Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles. HWS employs 1,700 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally with annual sales more than $800 million.\nOur customers trust us to deliver a wide range of great looking and dependable products that improve fuel economy and increase payload to address their customer’s business needs. Our Commercial Vehicle Wheel products lead the world in market innovation and truck, trailer, and bus customers recognize our LvL ONE®, Dura-Bright® and Ultra ONE® wheels as the current innovative products in this market.\nJob Dimensions:\nWith direction from the Quality Manager:\nApplies the quality strategy and vision as defined for the organization.\n\nImplements and improves the Quality System in accordance with IATF16949, customer requirements, and all its functions throughout the organization.\n\nSupports the quality responsibility to existing and new products and their related processes to meet customer requirements (All references to customer within this document shall apply to internal & external customers).\n\nResponsibility as a liaison between all Howmet Aerospace Cleveland Flowpath manufacturing processes and the customer.\n\nResponsible for monitoring and improving the quality of our operational process and products with a strong understanding of quality tools to ensure compliance with the IATF16949.\n\nProvide support to Howmet Aerospace external providers for incoming product issues and problem-solving techniques such as 8D, 7 Step, 5 WHY Principle, etc. and continuous improvement development as driven from Howmet’s quality management systems and customer requirements.\n\nCommunicates with all levels of personnel within the organization. Supervision of quality personnel as assigned.Provide assistance as needed to the Quality manager role in his absence.\n\nMajor Activities & Key Challenges :\nResponsible for support of Cleveland Forge Flowpath for closure to all customer issues, concerns, and requests. \nDrives & implements the Quality Policy, develops, documents and maintains an\n\neffective Quality System in accordance with IATF16949 and customer requirements.\nExecutes against goals, objectives and measurables for reviewing and monitoring the effectiveness of the Quality Management System.\n\nDrives organizational improvement through reporting of the performance of the Quality System and quality issues (i.e. non-conformance, Cpk, audit results, corrective & preventive action, customer rejections, etc.) to management for use as a basis for continuous improvement.Attend daily and weekly meetings accordingly.\n\nApplies knowledge in quality systems to drive disciplined systems and robust processes, and focused standardization of best practices; in conjunction with managing to a cohesive set of key performance metrics that provide objective insights into the health and effectiveness of our business operating system.\n\nManages risk mitigation and containment utilizing industry standards, while collaborating with the corporate legal, commercial, manufacturing and support teams to quickly resolve open customer and manufacturing issues typically with specific and broad legal implications for Cleveland Flowpath.\n\nSupports APQP and launches of new wheel programs including prototype, FAI, MFS, and all PPAP elements as required.\nStrong working knowledge of Quality Management Systems such as ISO9001, IATF16949 and the ability to work with supply base to continuously improve their systems resulting in improved product/service quality and reduced cost. Provide support to the supplier management process as needed. \nProvide training and development programs to support product and process quality, productivity, continuous improvement and safety performance. \nProvide quality support for the evaluating, testing, analyzing, dispositioning, and improvements from warranty returns as applicable to Cleveland Forge process.\nUtilizes Lean Manufacturing techniques to elevate the Quality culture of the plant while\n\nleading employee engagement teams with focus on customer Satisfaction, First Pass Yield, Scrap and rework reduction\n Basic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree (BS) from an accredited university \nEmployees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \nThis position is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which requires U.S. person status. ITAR defines U.S. person as an U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelors degree in Quality, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering; MBA preferred.\nMinimum of 2 years’ experience in a Quality management or supervisory role located in a manufacturing environment.\nKnowledge of Quality Management Systems such as IATF16949 or ISO9001 and production systems.\nKnowledge of problem solving and error proofing concepts. 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