Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement & Quality

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is a world-famous brand with offices across the globe. Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument; it’s a cultural symbol that resonates globally.

We are searching for a Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement & Quality to join our team. This role involves leading an interdisciplinary engineering team to sustain, optimize, and improve manufacturing processes using statistical analysis and quality data tools. The successful candidate will employ TPS/Lean Manufacturing practices to lead quality engineering projects, enhancing safety, inventory turns, scrap, rework, production adherence, and other key factory KPIs.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and guide an interdisciplinary engineering team to sustain and improve manufacturing processes.
• Lead quality engineering projects using TPS/Lean Manufacturing practices, including A3, PDCA, 5S, Kaizen Activities, Poka-Yoke, and ISO standards.
• Partner with key manufacturing leaders to define, develop, and deploy the Fender Production System model.
• Solve manufacturing issues using the scientific method and coach others in solving quality engineering problems.
• Drive process design to ensure sustainability, continuous improvement, and innovation, especially in New Product Introduction.
• Lead a Quality at Source mindset and gather data from inspection or audit processes to identify opportunities for engineering improvements.
• Manage a team of Quality Engineers and Sustaining Process Engineers, establishing and monitoring plans and programs for quality improvement.
• Analyze engineering data with the team to correlate yield and fallout to breakdown opportunities by priority.
• Ensure engineering processes result in products/services that meet quality standards and regulations.
• Review and link Quality Customer KPIs, Quality Distribution Centers KPIs, and Internal Quality KPIs to identify improvement areas using problem-solving methodologies.
• Provide technical leadership for the Fender Production System within the plant.
• Coach and train management and teams on FPS implementation and manage improvement teams to multiply effectiveness.
• Report performance and promote customer requirements at all organizational levels to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering.
• 5 years of progressive experience as a Quality Engineer or in a similar quality engineering role.
• Experience supervising an interdisciplinary team in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in leading quality engineering projects using TPS/Lean Manufacturing practices.
• Expertise in solving …