Description:
Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.
Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.
Essential Functions
- This position reports to the Plant Manager and has about 10-to-20 direct reports
- Ensure that the Quality Policy is communicated, implemented, and maintained throughout the facility
- Serve as the facility’s Management Representative for Quality
- Select, onboard, train, supervise, evaluate, and develop quality control employees to be successful in their roles
- Serve as an advocate for the customer, clarifying and reinforcing customer expectations, and fostering a culture of quality
- Conduct process audits of key manufacturing and business processes to ensure conformance with QMS requirements, and to identify opportunities for improvement
- Monitor production processes, and intervene when appropriate to support process control
- Contain, evaluate, and disposition nonconforming product; investigate root cause of nonconformances; and develop, implement, and evaluate corrective actions
- Support the timely and effective resolution of customer complaints, including performing field work when assigned
- Collect, analyze, and report data related to quality, such as costs of poor quality
- Review, validate, and retain quality records and associated reports, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Assist team members with interpretation of shop drawings and specifications, QMS requirements, and customer specifications, including obtaining clarification from other functions to ensure that quality requirements are understood and met
- Assist with the development, delivery, and evaluation of employee training and development
- Assist with the development, review, and implementation of QMS documents
- Perform inspection and testing duties assigned, which may include visual/dimensional inspection, welding inspection, coating inspection, and non-destructive testing
- Serve on cross-functional teams to support improvements in organizational performance
- Establish and maintain professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of quality control experience, OR
- Associates degree with at least 6 years of quality control experience, OR
- At least 9 years of quality control experience
- Excellent leadership, problem solving, planning, customer service, and written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programs
- Knowledgeable about welding inspection, coating inspection, and non-destructive testing
- Knowledgeable about basic quality tools, such as a pareto chart, a fishbone diagram, and root cause analysis
- Basic knowledge of statistical process control and process capability
- Knowledgeable about steel fabrication operations, such as thermal cutting, forming, welding, painting, galvanizing, and non-destructive testing
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Able to make informed, rational, data-driven decisions
- Able to persuade and motivate others
- Able to interpret codes and standards, shop drawings, and specifications