Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

Company Statement

Overview

Quality Improvement Managers are responsible for analyzing current and potential opportunities and leading improvement initiatives within the plant's quality programs and processes for all containers working through the plant quality, production, and logistics personnel. As a member of the Plant’s management team the Quality Improvement Manager also has shared responsibility for overall Plant operations, especially safety and efficiency. Primary duties of a Quality Manager include:

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Drive Quality training initiatives across the plant as well responsible for developing a quality culture and improvement.
• Use observation, questioning and data measurement to fully understand and categorize current quality issues.
• Develop a detailed root cause analysis for each problem, where each root cause is validated through testing, i.e. the condition or defect can be turned on or off.
• Identify and eliminate sources of variation that lead to changes to the Standard Operating Condition (SOC).
• Perform data analysis and prepare written reports in order make visible the true nature of problems and opportunities.
• Facilitate problem solving to root cause elimination and permanent reduction of variance.
• Lead Problem Solving and/or Kaizen events by leveraging/modeling the DMAIC process.
• Develop countermeasures that could range from basic problem containment to system repair to equipment replacement.
• Lead Daily Management processes to validate that actions lead to desired performance improvements.
• Partner with third party suppliers to perform equipment or system assessments and support quality systems
• Support deployment of Lean tools such as 5S, Visual Factory Aids, etc. to improve plant quality performance.
• Proactively seek problems that need to be solved and quantify the anticipated benefit of solving each particular problem.
• Follow through to assess and report on achieving desired improvements.
• Develop and ensure appropriate standard work and/or training tools or documentation is developed and in place to minimize problem reoccurrence.
• May be responsible for special projects related to other functional areas.
• Other duties as assigned
• 0-25% travel may be required.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s Degree and/or related quality experience; or equivalent combination of education and related quality experience is required. A minimum of five years’ experience in a quality supervisory or management role in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated leadership skills strongly preferred.

Quality Improvement Managers are required to interact with other managers, employees, vendors, and customers. Therefore, the following skills and proficiencies are also essential requirements of the position:

• Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
• Computer usage and typing skills are essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
• Communicates effectively: conveys facts and information clearly both verbally and orally.
• Collaborates well with others: proactively contributes to group objectives; volunteers to help others.

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