Quality Improvement Manager

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Role Information:

• The Quality Improvement Manager is responsible to drive and support improvement activities and convergent Problem-Solving competencies within AUT ASEAN, leveraging scalable methodologies and digital tools while unleashing people’s talent.
• Working in collaboration with production plant at Gateway Thailand towards waste reduction and improving Incidents on our customer base. 
• She/he is the Leader in ASEAN Problem Solving Committee and leads cross functional teams to solve complex and difficult manufacturing and quality problems.
• She/he contributes to the project selection that will have the highest impact on plant metrics.
• She/he coaches plant problem solvers and ensures their development

Responsibilities:

• Leader in ASEAN Problem Solving (PS) Committee.
• Organize regular meeting review status & planning.
• Promote PS culture throughout the Plant and ASEAN at all levels.
• Promote the selection of the projects that will have the highest impact on plant metrics (eg. CoPQ) and manage all PS projects including PS initiatives from Line QRM escalation to VSM/Plant Level.
• Support production improvement process through PS projects.
• Lead cross-functional team to apply diligently a structured problem-solving methodology that best fits the situation (Shainin, SPS, Six Sigma or other equivalent methods as described by the Shifting Gears)
• Follow up all PS projects with project owner and provide coaching to ensure PS methodologies are correctly applied.
• Regular project coaching with PS Master from Global, and follow-up to project closure and realize saving.
• Proactively anticipate roadblocks to find solutions and escalate when needed.
• Report out project progress, people development and savings to PS Committee and Management.
• Tabulate and manage Plant/ASEAN people PS skill matrix and identify training needs, plan & execution.
• Coach, Develop and Expand local Problem Solver Practitioners.
• Represent ASEAN in PS matter and report status to regional and global level.
• Alignment with AP and Global PS leaders for new PS initiatives and execution.
• Any other assignments as delegated by reporting Manager.

Requirements:

• Engineering degree (Mechanical or Electrical Engineering).
• Strong understanding of 6 Sigma tools and Minitab usage.
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and product design
• Experience in taking project using structured problem-solving methodology (Shainin Red-X, 6 Sigma, etc).
• Experience in coaching and training.

Specific Requirements(Mandatory):

• Certified Red X Master or Master Candidate (ability to coach) or Kepner-Tregoe.
• Strong understanding of 6 Sigma tools and Minitab usage.
• Able to develop Dashboard (PowerBI) and to apply Data Science (Python, R).