SOMFY Group

Builds motors and connected controls for homes and buildings

Plant Quality Manager

Quality Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSchio, Italy€65 - €75 /yr

About the Job

Requirements

A Master’s degree of an engineering-school type is required.
At least 10 years of experience in a similar role in an international manufacturing company is required.
Knowledge of 8D methodology and Design and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is required.
A statistical mindset is required.
Knowledge of product and process validation plans is required.
Supplier contract and relationship management skills are required.
Knowledge of control plans, the safe launch concept, and process flow diagrams is required.
Experience conducting internal and external manufacturing process audits is required.
Knowledge of product and process modifications and process management is required.
Knowledge of deviation request process management is required.
Knowledge of regulations and standards, including RoHS and UL, is required.
Ability to build a continuous improvement roadmap is required.
Knowledge of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 is required.
Knowledge of office software, including Excel, is required.
Fluency in English and Italian is required.
Leadership, ability to engage and support change, openness to external stakeholders, ability to interact with customers and suppliers, and a strategic mindset are required.

Responsibilities

Oversee the plant’s Quality Function, including Customer Quality, Project Quality, Supplier Quality Assurance, and Manufacturing and Supply Chain Quality.
Ensure manufactured products are fit for purpose and meet legal, internal, and customer requirements.
Monitor and advise on the performance of the quality management system, produce performance data and reports, and measure performance against established standards.
Coordinate with managers and staff across the organization to ensure the quality management system functions properly.
Advise on changes and their implementation, and provide training, tools, and techniques to help others achieve quality standards.
Deploy the Group’s quality strategy within the role’s scope, develop and improve internal quality processes, and define a three-to-five-year roadmap while ensuring compliance with company policies and standards.
Improve the function through action and continuous improvement plans.
Ensure appropriate customer and intra-department satisfaction levels.
Ensure process compliance, contribute to risk analysis, and develop quality management processes that minimize risks.
Define and manage the activity’s budget, participate in budget and forecast preparation and revisions, and make adjustments in line with company and Group requirements.
Establish Quality key performance indicators and periodic reporting; coordinate internal and external communications about quality issues; decide and drive immediate and preventive actions; and personally drive quality problems.
Represent the Quality Department in cross-functional projects, ensure implementation, and contribute business expertise to major Group projects.
Ensure smooth operations and cooperation with other Group activities by engaging the teams in cross-functional collaboration.
Support team employees in their work and development by setting clear objectives and providing constructive feedback.
Promote customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and sharing of good practices.
Travel to other Italian sites and periodically to the headquarters in France.

Job Description

The Plant Quality Manager, reporting hierarchically to the Site Director of Schio Plant and functionally to the Group Quality Function, will oversee all the activities within the Quality Function of the plant including such as Customer Quality, Project Quality, Supplier Quality Assurance and Manufacturing and Supply chain Quality.

Mission of the position:

The Plant Quality Manager aims to ensure that products manufactured fit for purpose and meet both external and internal requirements. This includes legal compliance, internal and customer expectations. He/She coordinates the activities required to meet these quality standards.

The Plant Quality Manager is concerned by monitoring and advising on the performance of the quality management system, producing data and reporting on performance, measuring against set standards.

In this positon he/she will need to liaise with other managers and staff throughout the organization to ensure that the quality management system is functioning properly.

Where appropriate, he/she will advise on changes and how to implement them and provide training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality standards.

Job is done in co-ordination, agreement and consistency with relevant Somfy Group management and functions.

Main Responsibilities:

Deployment of the group’s quality strategy in his/her scope: develop, maintain and improve internal quality processes and define the medium and long-term roadmap (3-5 years), ensuring compliance of processes with internal Somfy policies and standards;
Develop excellence in one’s function by implementing the necessary action and continuous improvement plans;
Customer satisfaction: ensure proper customer and intra-department satisfaction level;
Ensure compliance with processes and contribute to risk analysis, developing quality management process that minimize risks;
Define the budgetary framework for its activity and manage it: participate in budget, forecasts and revisions preparation; doing necessary adjustments as per company situation and Somfy Group requirement;
Performance management: set up Quality KPI and maintain periodic reporting; organize clear, quick internal & external communication to any quality related issue; decide and drive immediate & preventive actions to quality issues, personally drives quality problems (QP);
Represent the Quality Department within cross-functional projects and ensure its implementation and contribute its business expertise to the Group’s major projects;
Guarantee the smooth running of its business and the Group’s other activities, in particular by engaging its teams in transversality and cooperation;
People management: support employees in his team in their mission and their development, setting clear objectives and providing constructive feedbacks;
Embodied and Promoted the culture of Customer Satisfaction and continuous improvement as well as the sharing of good practices.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in engineering school type;
Minimum required experience in the role: 10 years on similar position in manufacturing international company.

Technical Skills:

8D methodology, FMEA Design and Process;
Statistic mindset;
Product/Process validation Plan;
Supplier contract and relationship management;
Control plan, safe launch concept, Process Flow Diagram;
Manufacturing process Audit (internal & external);
Product and Process modification and process management;
Deviation request process management;
Norms & regulations (ROHS, UL, etc.);
Ability to build continuous improvement roadmap;
ISO 9001 e 14001;
Office Suite (Excel...)
Fluent in English;
Fluent in Italian.

Soft skills:

Leadership;
Ability to engage and support change;
Openess to external stakeholders;
Ability to interact with external partners (Customer/Supplier..etc)
Strategic Mindset (ability to translate strategic orientation in the daily job).

Additional Information

The position is based in Schio, but ready to travel to other Italian sites and periodically to the Headquarter in France

Work Relationships:

This position works with domain team, all departments (Project, Quality, Marketing, Distribution, Management Control, Purchasing, etc..), external partners (Suppliers, Customers, Regulatory bodies, Service Providers, etc).

The protection of our candidates’ personal data is a commitment of Somfy Group. We therefore ask any candidate to submit their application to us exclusively via our secure system, and not by email or postal.

Compensation: 65 to 75 (EUR) (YEARLY)

About the Company

SOMFY Group

Builds motors and connected controls for homes and buildings

SOMFY Group designs and manufactures motors, controls, and connected systems for openings and closures in homes and buildings. Its products automate shutters, blinds, curtains, gates, garage doors, and other access points, combining mechanical movement with electronic controls. The group serves manufacturers, installers, building professionals, and household users through an international network of brands, production sites, and distribution operations. Its connected-home offering lets occupants coordinate equipment, adjust living conditions, and manage access or security from digital interfaces. Founded in 1969, SOMFY Group is headquartered in Cluses, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Cluses, France
Founded: 1969

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