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Quality Manager
| Company | Caterpillar Inc. |
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| Location | Greendale, WI, USA |
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| Salary | $87480 – $131280 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Familiarity with the CAT dealer network
- Knowledge of CPI and BIQ processes
- Excel and Power BI experience
- Degree or equivalent experience desired
- AWS CWI certified
- ASNT MT/PT Level II certifications and UT Level II certifications
Responsibilities
- Manage a unionized hourly workforce consisting of a team lead and quality inspectors for welding, machining, assembly, painting, receiving, and packaging value streams across a three shift operation 24-7-365, objective is to ensure quality standards are met.
- Creation and maintenance of the welding inspection quality gates in SAP.
- Auditing AQE’s for correct coding and working with inspectors on making improvements to quality gates.
- Annually quality inspector reviews assessing competence to perform job role.
- Hiring and training quality inspectors and NDT technicians for MT/PT Level II certifications and UT Level I certification.
- Improve quality of inspection system with implementation of AQE Check Items and or checklists.
- Supporting development of quality assurance strategies, processes, guidelines and control plans which assure quality and reliability of manufactured products.
- Developing and reviewing inspection reports with operations team and manufacturing engineering to solve quality issues.
- Weekend support of value stream operations teams with quality inspectors.
Preferred Qualifications
- Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.
- Conducts and directs quality reviews.
- Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
- Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
- Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
- Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
- Investigates a broad range of problems, determines causes, and finds resolutions.
- Develops corrective action based on RCA results.
- Guides others to recognize repeat situations even when they are distributed over time or happen to different people.
- Works with a variety of RCA approaches such as safety-based, production-based, process-based, failure-based, and systems-based.
