Quality & Operational Excellence Manager - Modderfontein at ABB

Your responsibilities

• Leading a team of quality specialists and testing engineers, independently ensuring compliance with our processes, standards and best practices
• Ensuring the qualification, evaluation, monitoring and improvement of our suppliers in collaboration with the operations, SCM, engineering and safety team, leading initiatives to simplify and improving our processes
• Ensuring compliance to ISO quality standards, organizing and guiding the formulation, upgrading and implementation of departments quality management system procedures, processes and work instructions
• Organizing and guiding the formulation, upgrading and implementation of departments quality management system procedures, processes and work instructions, conducting Internal and external quality management system audit
• Supporting the operations team in conducting supplier audits, preparing the audit report for the EL division as well as country and ensuring the findings are addressed timeously, following up the quality performance at the different levels in company
• Planning systematic improvement projects-based quality performance from the whole value chain and supporting the improvement project owner to execute their project, planning and organizing the quality training, including internal audit capability, common quality tools, knowledge and method
• Planning quality activities, enhancing quality awareness and creating outstanding quality culture in organization, ensuring operational KPIs are monitored and met, ensuring operational cost savings projects are loaded on the system and follow- up on these are done monthly
• Training and coaching the various teams in the business, for all to develop the capability to continuously improve and enhance the best business practices and quality awareness, assisting in reparation of GPG (Global Product Group) review meetings – quarterly, present quality related topics / issues as well as TOP5 quality issues quarterly to the GPG managers

Your background

• You are recognized for your leadership, decision-making, thoroughness, and ability to work in a team
• Fully committed to the realization of his or her mandates, the candidate is autonomous, responsible, analytical and a good communicator both orally and in writing, ddemonstrate an interest in working in a normative environment
• Experience in Electrical and Mechanical engineering is preferred and will be beneficial, theoretical and practical experience will be an added advantage
• Have developed expertise relevant to the position, 10 years.
• Previous managerial experience, good knowledge of English, both spoken and written, knowledge of ISO 9001 standards, must be available to travel on occasion
• The position is driven and supported by many administration activities, therefore your knowledge and experience in All Microsoft Office packages is critical
• Fluent in the use of SAP is essential