Sr Global Quality Manager - Automotive

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

LOCATION

Preferred: This role can be based remotely anywhere within the U.S. and will require 30-50% travel, mainly to the Mexico region.

Secondary: This role could also be based on-site at our Chihuahua, Mexico facility for anyone local to that area.

JOB SUMMARY

• Support the Business Unit in all Quality related aspects associated by potential and new business

• Have a thorough understanding of the Sector's manufacturing capabilities, processes, tools and systems

• Work with BU, Ops, Customer and peers to develop product quality objectives consistent with customer expectations and team plans.

• Assume the Quality conscience of the team in all aspects of the business.

• Provide accurate, timely feedback of production issues, as needed.

• Establish relationships and contacts with all sites manufacturing similar products and customers.

• Develop an understanding of the work cell business strategy as it pertains to Quality

• Provide regular updates to Global Quality team, BUDs, BUMs, WCMs, and Operations Managers on the execution of the Quality strategy.

• Work closely with the Business Unit Director/Manager to develop an understanding of the customer business strategy as it pertains to Quality.

Responsibilities

• Global Best Practice implementation.

• Deployment and training to manufacturing sites for quality tools and techniques.

• Global Process capability program.

• Utilize tools to monitor departmental cost and cost trends, striving continuously to improve value.

• Identify creative ways to reduce waste by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. analysis of the requirements, modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value-added processes, or re-engineering of processes and systems).

• Monitor trends in Quality data (yields, dpm, corrective actions) to identify continual improvement opportunities.

• Act as a catalyst for changing the mindsets from one of reactively measuring the product to one of proactively monitoring the process for optimized performance and quality.

• Assist in eliminating non value-added inspection by instilling an “inspection at the source” mentality.

• Steer Customer Product Engineering and new program teams towards …