First Brands Group™ is a global automotive parts company that develops, markets and sells premium products through a portfolio of nine market-leading brands: Raybestos® complete brake solutions, Centric® Parts replacement brake components, FRAM® filtration products, LuberFiner® filtration products, TRICO® wiper blades, ANCO® wiper blades, Carter® fuel and water pumps, Autolite® spark plugs, and StrongArm® lift supports. The First Brands Group™ portfolio of world-class brands offers best-in-class technology, industry-leading engineering capabilities, and superior customer service.

First Brands Group is hiring for a Quality Lead for our INTERNATIONAL BRAKE INDUSTRIES division for our plant located in Apodaca NL.

Mission: Quality Leader is accountable for leading a team with quality and continuous improvement functions in the First Brands Group / International Brake Industries Monterrey facility. Oversees successful execution of the quality system, process audits, lean manufacturing culture development always caring our customers, people, and resources of the company.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Foster integration and achieve synergies within all departments at IBI.

Prioritize activities, delegate, and verify the accomplishment of goals and commitments.

Actively promote lean manufacturing and or six sigma initiatives such as Gemba walks, 5S's audits, visual management, root cause analysis and usage problem solving tools such as 8D's, fishbone, 5 why's, A3 among others.

Key Performance Indicators and Sub indicators administration

Definition and execution of projects that leads to increase the pieces per man hour and reduce wastes such as transportation, work in process inventory, unnecessary movements, waiting, overproduction, overprocesses and defects.  

Promote, develop, and supervise compliance with IBI quality standards and system.

ISO Point of contact and certification accountability for the facilities in Monterrey.

Communication, collaboration in alignment with our corporate policies and procedures.

Comply effectively with customers' requirements through the management of policies and procedures, standards, inspections, and continuous improvement.

Define, maintain controls and documentation such as reports, or analysis triggered by a claim of internal or external customer.

Primary contact when customers (external/external) complain or audit our processes.

Make sure quality tools/fixtures are always calibrated. 

Identify strengths and opportunities of their team members and work on a development plan.

Cross training of people within the quality team to increase flexibility and service different areas within our operations.

Education and experience

• Industrial Engineering or similar
• 5 to 10 years of experience leading quality and continuous improvements teams in Distribution centers, Manufacturing sites environment.
• Proven experience on ISO certification
• Desired certification in Green Belt. APICS and DC operations will be a plus.

Competences:

Leadership, Strategical, Work under pressure, Customer oriented. Analytical, Problem-Solving skills, Teamwork, fully bilingual (English & Spanish)