Deputy Quality Manager

Department: Quality.

Reporting to: Quality Manager 

Position Overview.

Quality assurance and quality control.

Responsible for monitoring and evaluating internal production processes and examining products to determine quality.

Qualifications.

Education: Diploma in Mechanical engineering.

Experience: 5 years’ experience.

Skills: Quality management, supervisory skills.

Duties and Responsibilities.

Quality Management.

• Understand customer needs and requirements to develop effective quality control processes.

• Devise and establish a company's quality procedures, standards and specifications.

• Oversee the product manufacturing and re-validation process to ensure quality.

• Review products, processes and systems on an ongoing basis to determine where improvements can be made.

• Ensure that all products are compliant with the set statutory standards.

• Ensure that all in-house systems and procedures are updated, revised and modified to meet the needs of external certification bodies.

• Oversee all product development procedures to identify deviations from quality standards.

• Examining the quality of raw materials and spare parts acquired.

• Inspect final output and compare properties to requirements

• Ensure quality control tests are done.

• Approve the right products or reject defectives/products that fail quality standards.

• Evaluate all rejected products.

• Improving production efficiency and managing waste.

• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.

• Undertake continuous training and development.

• Conducting regular quality inspections.

Documentation and Reporting.

• Ensure the various quality logs are filled on a daily basis.

• Submit detailed daily/weekly and monthly quality control reports such as number of rejects, number of leaking cylinders, breakdown reports, and raw material consumption reports to the management.

• Report quality standard issues to management.

• Keep accurate documentation and perform statistical analysis.

• Conduct quality audits on a quarterly basis.

Health and Safety

• Ensure adherence to health and safety guidelines as well as legal obligations.

Employee Management.

• Manage, coach and develop a high performing Quality team that meets agreed objectives and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements 

• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.

• Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required.

• Conduct annual performance appraisals for the quality team.

Other Roles.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.