Director Quality & Continuous Improvement
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Job Location:
Jefferson City - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Location:
Jefferson City Missouri United States of AmericaJob ID:
R0102049Date Posted:
Company Name:
HITACHI ENERGY USA INCProfession (Job Category):
Quality ManagementJob Schedule:
Full timeRemote:
NoJob Description:
Hitachi Energy is seeking Director of Quality & Continuous Improvement. The role will be based in our world class Jefferson City MO manufacturing site. The role will lead develop maintain and manage a Quality Assurance (QA) Organization that is effective at ensuring compliance to all regulatory customer and mandated requirements while driving continuous improvement of process controls to eliminate quality risks.
Responsibilities include:
- Maintain and continuously improve the Quality Management System to meet customer ISO 9000 and industry requirements.
- Establish the overall Quality Vision and utilize quality engineering tools and continuous improvement methods to drive quality excellence in our processes and products.
- Facilitate the resolution of customer quality issues and provide a professional interface that ensures effective communication with the customer and confidence that the issues are being resolved in a thorough timely and proactive manner.
- Strategically identify process gaps and risks in the Quality Management System and drive improved process controls to mitigate these risks.
- Monitor performance of key quality measures (Cost of Poor Quality customer complaints internal failure rates etc.) and utilize a data-driven cross-functional problem-solving approach to determine root causes of failures/defects. Drive the implementation of effective corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence.
- Provide guidance and arrange for training of staff. Provide administrative support to senior managers and advise supervisors regarding complex aspects of their assignments. Manage and document employee performance and implement responsive measures.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree and 10 years of professional experience in Quality Engineering Operational Excellence or Process Improvement with 5 years of experience managing Quality Operational Excellence or Process Improvement Professionals
- Preferred Proven expertise with ISO-9001 certification and the American Society of Qualitys body of knowledge for Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and/or Manager of Quality and Operational Excellence (CMQ/OE).
- Preferred Experience auditing under industrial regulations (e.g. ISO UL ASQ RABQSA ANSI ASME etc.)
Strong analytical skills especially with data analysis is heavily preferred - proven experience working with failure analysis FMEA (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis) test engineering and/or product reliability SPC Process Capability Process Performance Analysis is a plus
Experience working with transformer systems and/or related technologies (electromagnetics magnetics induction systems power electronics power products inverters) preferred
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Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- ISO 9001
- Root cause Analysis
- Biotechnology
- Clinical Trials
- Quality Systems
- Food Processing
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- cGMP
- HACCP
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