TITAN Group

Quality Control Manager

TITAN Group

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Florida

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Job Level

SeniorLead

About the role

  • Salaried exempt position reporting directly to the General Manager; responsible for ensuring consistent, quality concrete within the region.
  • Set the Quality department goals and objectives in line with the plant objectives and applicable engineering principles;
  • Ensure the safe work environment rules and practices are understood, implemented and consistently followed by the Quality department employees and contractors;
  • Define, follow - up and optimize the Quality department expenses;
  • Ensure adoption and adherence to Titan standards, norms and best practices;
  • Lead and develop the Quality department processes to meet desired requirements, improve operations and promote personnel development;
  • Supervise preparation, adoption and review of documentation of the Quality System to be in line with the Quality Assurance System (QAS);
  • Take all appropriate actions to ensure that production targets, customer expectations and regulatory specifications are achieved;
  • Coordinate the implementation of the Quality Management System and monitor the application of the system in the plant;
  • Detect, investigate, and report any deviations in the specifications of the test results for all products and make recommendations based on findings;
  • Report nonconformity and implement corrective actions;
  • Manage the relationships with the certification agencies regarding product certification and approval;
  • Specify, commission, and qualify new laboratory equipment;
  • Establish a quality control plan for each step of the process and establish specifications for quality of the plant’s raw materials, fuels, intermediate and finished products;
  • Establish quality procedures to be followed by the plant to ensure quality at all intermediary steps of the process and monitor their implementation;
  • Assure compliance with the quality requirements listed in the contracts with customers;
  • Give feedback on the opportunities for product development presented by the Business Unit Marketing & Sales and contribute to the definition of new product specifications;
  • Ensure that new products have established testing procedures and parameters.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent foreign degree;
  • 10 years of quality control and process experience in the cement production industry and supervisory/managerial experience;
  • Strong reasoning and math abilities;
  • Experience with process improvement at a cement manufacturing plant;
  • Experience with utilizing an objective approach to problem solving;
  • Experience assessing processes using an SPC (Statistical Process Control) approach;
  • Persuasive communication and negotiation skills;
  • Knowledge of industry standards and specifications mainly being physical and chemical testing related to ASTM C150);
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in ISO Standards: 9000 and 14000 as well as API Q1;
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in ISO 17025 (Auditor experience) including implementation and accreditation to organisms recognized by ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation);
  • Experience on calculating and interpreting uncertainty according to ISO17025;
  • Knowledge of cement manufacturing design, applicable engineering processes and equipment;
  • Experience on the commissioning and execution of projects related to new equipment in Cement Plants;
  • Experience on production and quality control of special cements: White Cement, Well Cements (ISO10426);
  • Knowledge of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies;
  • Experience with commonly used computer software, including MS Office Suite, Minitab.