• Quality Supervisor

    KPS Global, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)


    KPS Global (KPSG) is the North American industry leader in the manufacture, production, and installation of Walk-in Coolers and Freezers. KPSG’s end-product serves many channels within the retail food market as well as industrial applications. KPSG is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas with most support activities centralized in the Fort Worth facility. KPSG maintains product manufacturing in five locations: San Dimas, CA; Fort Worth, TX; Piney Flats, TN; Conyers, GA and Goodyear, AZ.

     

    KPS Global values its outstanding people who are deeply committed to providing innovative, high-quality service to clients from coast-to-coast. As a member of the KPS team, you’ll be part of an exciting and modern company culture where you will enjoy professional flexibility and benefit from an environment where creativity, innovation, and hard work are rewarded.

    Job Summary

    The Quality Supervisor is responsible for supervising, planning, coordinating, directing, and implementing the quality control program designed to ensure continuous production of products that are consistent to KPS Global’s established high standards. Quality supervisor is also responsible for executing and improving key processes to drive improvements in our processes and products by working closely with the different process owners such as: Production, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Engineering to identify and correct the root causes of unacceptable processes and products at a pace consistent with the needs of our customers. The Quality Supervisor also owns the compliance to our processes by establishing audit protocols.

    Major Responsibilities

    + Direct resource for data analysis, problem identification, resolution and continuous improvement.

    + Support root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.

    + Use of theory and principles of statistics and statistical process control.

    + Interact with other departments to identify opportunities to improve quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.

    + Actively lead and participate in internal quality audits.

    + Support the manufacturing groups to create, implement and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.

    + Support consistent metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring systems effectiveness

    + Interface with suppliers and customer representatives concerning problems with quality control and assure that effective corrective actions are implemented.

    + Implementing, and maintaining the factory Quality Management System.

    + Supervising and directing activities of the factory quality team.

    + Developing and conducting quality training for manufacturing teams.

    + Developing and implementing the factory process control plans.

    + Visits to other manufacturing sites, supplier and customer sites (including occasional travel).

    Required Skills

    Items listed are required unless “preferred” is indicated.

     

    + Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar field

     

    required, prefer with specialization in Quality systems and Statistics.

     

    + Must have 5+ years of related experience in QA systems and Supervising activities

     

    (Manufacturing / Mechanical / Foam industry preferred).

     

    + Must have the ability to communicate effectively (verbal/written/presentations) at all

     

    levels.

     

    + Must have experience as a quality assurance resource for data analysis, problem

     

    identification, resolution, and continuous improvement.

     

    + Strong knowledge and experience for problem solving techniques such 5 why’s,

     

    Fishbone, Process mapping, etc. in order to identify root cause and define CAPA.

     

    + Working knowledge of statistical software is especially desirable or equivalent, ERP,

     

    Shop floor knowledge helpful.

     

    + Experience in design and development of new product introduction.

    + Certified Quality Auditor / Engineer preferred.

    + Six Sigma (DMAIC) - Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Kanban experience preferred.

    + Working knowledge of PPAP APQP, preferred

    + Must have excellent computer skills (PowerPoint, Excel and statistical software tools).

    Required Experience