Quality Manager

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:.It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.Who will you be working with? The site in Kąty Wrocławskie is dedicated to the production of pantograph for rail and commercial use. In this role you will report hierarchically to the Plant Director and functionally to the Regional Quality Director.How will you make a difference? As a QHS&E Manager you will be responsible to deploy Wabtec Quality strategy. Specifically, to monitor and validate the conformity of products/processes in production; to ensure the Quality Management System is defined, documented, implemented and maintained; to ensure customers’ requirement are satisfied and to represent the site for Quality related matters.What do we want to know about you? University degree in a technical facultyMinimum of 5 years' experience in leading quality and health and safety teamsProven experience in quality processesExperience in participating in new technology transfer, transfer/line projectsFluent EnglishAbility to influence through influencing, coaching, mentoring and teaching. Ability to teach and develop the team in rapid improvement cycles; these rapid development opportunities will build the confidence of the team; this in turn will give us the ability to dramatically increase the speed of changeBeing part of the management team demonstrates leadership courage and a proactive attitude in presenting initiativesStrong oral and written communication skills and interpersonal and leadership skillsClear thinking, ability to analyse and solve complex problemsProven ability to lead programmes / projects ensuring support from key stakeholders in a matrix environment at all levelsEstablished project management skills, experience in documenting, planning and stabilising programmesWhat will your typical day look like? Has the authority to stop and release the execution of any process/product inside his/her site.Managing the safety areaManage Incidents (0 Km, warranty) directly for operation scope and with support of PQE for CustomerIn coordination with Product line, ensure Incidents are handled with the proper reactivity (QRQC Step 1)48h for containment10 days for analysis and action plan definition30 days for closing, learning and sharingEnsure QRQC Step 2 is implemented to collect learning from past experiences and its integration inside the applicable local Site standards.Manage Quality Indicators on his/her site.Develop, coordinate and communicate the site Quality Improvement plan following guidelines from Regions/Transit/Corporate.Promote Quality Culture change in his/her site.Manage Quality network in his or her site.Coordination of procects and audit the Quality Management System periodically (Internal, Customer Audits, ISO, IRIS)Follow up the Quality of major product/process changes within the sitesRepresent Customer on Quality matters (Communication / Escalation) > “voice of customer” inside the plantEnsure the escalation of major quality issues to the upper level of the organization, if necessary (Regional Quality and/or Product Line Quality)Manage the Quality in operations: inspection controls, Local SQA / SE Engineer, and Production Quality in order to secure the production linesEnsure that control plans are applied and maintained by Operations and Incoming Inpsection (focus on safety / critical characteristics)Lead the Module QRQC, monitor the Line QRQCEnsure all the requested documentation is provided to customers, according to customers’ project requirements (3.1 certificates, FCF/SCS, automatic e-mail ….)Collaborate to the “first assembly/first revision “product/system phase and ensure that all topics are integrated inside the P-FMEAEnsure that workplace audits are performed in order to prepare internal FAI or customer FAIFacilitate the C-FAI organization and all customer visits at siteEnsure the reliability of the quality data, through the use of WIM (Wabtec Incidents Management) data baseMake sure that customers quality data are tracked and followed closely, and aligned with the customer’s appraisal of the site performanceI consent to the processing of my personal data by Stemmann-Polska Sp . z o.o. for the purposes of activities necessary for the recruitment process, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 10 May 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1000) and in accordance with the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (RODO).Legal authorization to work in EU is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.Please note that we do not accept agency candidate submissions without a formalized agreement with Wabtec Talent Acquisition. If you are an agency/third party Recruiter and have not been engaged by Wabtec for this search, we do not owe you a fee if you submit a candidate to the applicant tracking system that is ultimately hired.#LI-LF1Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! 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