Assistant Director of Supplier Quality

Job Function: Quality Management

Industry: Manufacturing -- Motor Vehicle, including body/trailers/parts

PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture, and customer support of high-quality light- medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF nameplates. It also provides financial services and information technology and distributes truck parts related to its principal business.

PACCAR has an immediate opening for an Assistant Director in our Corporate Supplier Quality department who will lead deployment of Quality initiatives at PACCAR, train, mentor, and lead Supplier Quality staff to improve supplier capabilities, reduce total defects, and manage projects on time. Approximately 30% travel.

Additional duties will include:

• Supervise Supplier Quality Managers located in the U.S. and Canada to reduce supplier related rejects, improve process capabilities and effectively launch new projects on time.
• Develop processes to improve supplier selection and management, new product implementation, and business sourcing.
• Assist and manage suppliers to achieve 50 PPM
• Depending on the candidate’s skill set: Manage the Advanced Quality initiative or PPAP group.
• Track and manage supplier selection and readiness on major projects.
• Support and manage containment activities for responsible suppliers.
• Ensure status reporting is accurate and on time.
• Manage the group travel budget.
• Partner and collaborate with management in the development of process improvement initiatives and quality problem solving.
• Prepare internal and PACCAR supplier quality reports, assist in the resolution of supplier issues.
• Support global integration on supply chain management.

Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; excellent organization and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to multi-task.
• Significant experience (+5 years) with project management and lean manufacturing required.
• Ability to manage conflict; effective problem solver.
• Demonstrated leadership, teambuilding and mentoring skills, effective conflict resolution skills, ability to drive change and get results.
• Masters degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt training desired.
• Formal Lean training/certification preferred.
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Business or appropriate major; 5-7 years of related experience; manufacturing experience is desired.
• Experience should include Six Sigma tools and concepts as a black belt, including but not limited to DMAIC, flow-enhancement, Lean manufacturing and Kaizen.

PACCAR offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package to include: medical/dental/vision/Rx, retirement, 401k, life and disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. Equal Opportunity Employer

To apply: e-mail resume in Word format to corp_jobs@paccar.com and include #07-70-02631 in the subject line.

PACCAR Inc.
Bellevue, Washington 98004, United States of America
www.paccar.com