Supplier Quality Manager Global

Dymax is a world-renowned producer of adhesives, coatings, dispensing systems, and curing equipment. Where our competitors supply products, our company teams up with customers and commits to developing solutions that help customers lower costs, improve efficiencies, and increase their profitability. This focus on customer partnership has led us to become where we are today: a rapidly expanding force within our industry, with a comprehensive product portfolio, extraordinary employees, and a bright future based on creating quality offerings with a dedication to business growth.

We seek a results-focused, innovative, customer-centric well-qualified individual to join our talented team as a Global Supplier Quality Manager. Based out of our Torrington Connecticut location, you will be expected to establish and drive optimum supplier quality standards by executing actions and initiative that ensure externally sourced products and services meet high standards of quality, ensure external and internal sourced products and services are supplied on time, monitoring supplier performance to ensure compliance with quality requirements, and driving continuous improvement processes.

You will:

• Develop, implement, and improve quality management systems by partnering with external product and service providers to meet requirements of ISO9001 through training, compliance and certification.
• Develop and lead innovative, high-performing supplier quality management teams by exercising strong leadership and judgment shills to acquire, develop, train, coach, cultivate, and manage talented, responsive, customer-centric supplier quality engineers.
• Establish robust criteria for approval of products, processes, and services by documenting processes and methods shown to optimize product conformities and freight charges, reduce disruptions, enhance delivery performance, and sharing notifications related to quality or delivery issues, returns, warranty field actions, or product recalls
• Ensure a robust, documented supplier selection and compliance process by completing supplier approval assessments, including on-site visitations, reviewing results, identifying deficiencies and gaps, developing supplier actions plans that address issues, and verifying the effectiveness of completed supplier actions plans.
• Define and manage the required controls to externally provided products and services by partnering with Procurement/Sourcing to ensure that externally provided processes, products and services consistently conform to requirements.
• Prevent externally provided products and services adversely impacting products by defining and implementing effective controls and verifications for external providers, products and services, conducting risk analyses on end-product and process performance, and identifying statutory, regulatory, and internal requirements that supplied products and services must meet
• Determine the priority, type, extent, and timing of required supplier development actions by analyzing performance issues identified through supplier monitoring, second-party audit findings, third-party quality management system certification status, and risk analysis, then implementing actions necessary to resolve open performance issues
• Develop a document external provider supplier assessment program by defining methodologies for supplier risk assessments, supplier monitoring, QMS development, and product and process audits. Based on risk analysis, identify, schedule, and execute second party assessments, both remote and on-site
• Enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring that customer specified sourcing requirements are documented, implemented, monitored, and maintained

Requirements

You should have:

• Self-starter capable of leading cross-functional teams
• Bachelor's degree in engineering related discipline. Chemical Engineering degree, or equivalency, preferred
• Able to successfully manage challenging situations, and generate executive summaries for internal and external customers
• Expansive industry knowledge an advantage
• 10+ years of experience in Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, or related field
• Previous Supplier Quality experience essential
• Solid understanding on quality tools such as statistical process control, Six Sigma, Lean, process improvements, yield improvements, cycle time reductions, pareto charts, root cause analysis, failure modes, test procedures, gauge reliability and repeatability, First Article Inspection (FAI), statistical process capability (CpK)
• Substantial experience, including active participation, in external audits
• Results oriented, driven individual
• ERM experience required, JD Edwards E1 familiarity advantageous

If this sounds like an ideal match for your talents, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

Dymax offers its employees:

• Generous Paid Time Off and Public Holidays
• Retirement Plan (401K)
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - effective date of hire
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Free uniforms and footwear
• Attractive salaries
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Personal growth opportunities
• Wellness Resources
• Training & Development
• Excellent benefits packages that include

Salary: $107,000-$135,000

Dymax takes the compensation of its employees very seriously and considers several factors when determining the total compensation package including but not limited to location, market range, skills, knowledge, experience, and abilities. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Dymax salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range. The range listed is just one component of Dymax total compensation packages for employees.

Dymax provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, domestic violence status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.