Quality & Operational Excellence Specialist at ABB

You will be working as Quality and Operational Excellence Specialist and will be the part of Electrification business area for Distribution Solutions division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting to Operations Manager and will be responsible to support and implement actions to improve operational efficiency, quality and productivity in the entire value chain and in doing so improve customer satisfaction and increase profitability within the local business

Your responsibilities

• 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 improve our process, ensuring compliance to ISO 9001:2015 standards, organizing and guiding the formulation, upgrading and implementing 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 enhancing 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

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical and mechanical engineering is preferred
• Theoretical and Practical experience will be an added advantage, have developed expertise relevant to the position and have 10 years of experience
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 standards and 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 and fluent in the use of SAP is essential
• Fluency in English language is mandatory