QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER jobs in Columbia, SC

Company Overview

Lennox (NYSE: LII) is an industry leader in energy-efficient climate-control solutions founded over a century ago on the principles of integrity and innovation. Dedicated to sustainability and creating comfortable, healthier environments for our residential and commercial customers while reducing their carbon footprint, we lead the field in innovation with our cooling, heating, indoor air quality, and refrigeration systems.

Allied Air Enterprises is a division of Lennox International. We bring together the collective strengths of seven comfort brands – Armstrong Air™, AirEase®, Concord®, Ducane™, Allied™, Allied Commercial™ and MagicPak® to give distributors and dealers the ultimate source for heating and cooling solutions. From compact residential applications to large commercial projects, Allied Air Enterprises redefines ease-of-business through breadth of product, resources and competencies unparalleled in the market.

Job Description

The Alllied Air Plant Quality Assurance Manager will report to the Plant Director and will be responsible for the design and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met during production.  Additional  responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Overseeing the development of quality standards and protocols for quality assurance testing models.
• Overseeing sampling procedures, techniques, and equipment.
• Developing techniques for ensuring the maintenance of quality levels throughout the production process
• Maintaining a continuous inspection, testing, analysis, and problem resolution process to ensure quality standards can be met on a continuous basis.
• Responsible for the detection of quality variances. Will recommend actions needed to achieve and maintain established quality levels.
• Ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Leading the Quality team, focusing on talent development, performance management and succession planning for key positions within the department
• Conferring with customers to define and resolve product quality problems. Develops the economics of any quality program.
• Reviewing product designs and recommend revision of specifications.

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Requires at least 8 years related experience.Requires broad expertise in the best practices of quality policies, procedures and systems. A proven problem solver utilizing statistical methodology, SPC and data mining, design of experiment and root cause analysis to identify and resolve manufacturing quality issues, cost reduction, product integrity and process improvement challenges. Can identify and present solutions and quality initiatives using ROI and business models. Must have strong written, verbal, presentations and persuasion skills. Excellent organizational and computer skills. Effective in gaining employee buy-in. Effective in people management. Leads with highly effective interpersonal skills.