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Quality Assurance Manager

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE® brands. It also offers infrastructure development through NFI Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at www.newflyer.com.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Ensure the New Flyer Quality system is fully understood, executed, and maintained across the Winnipeg facility. The Quality Manager provides leadership to the Quality Assurance Department and the plant overall, ensuring all aspects of New Flyer’s Quality Assurance system are in place and functioning effectively. As a key member of the leadership team, this role plays a critical part in driving excellence within a dynamic, two‑shift operation. WHAT YOU WILL DO:

  • Ensure that the Quality Assurance department is staffed with trained and high-performing team members. Provide guidance, training plans and feedback for areas of improvement for Quality personnel as appropriate. Ensure that annual EPR (Employee Performance Reviews) are completed and reviewed with staff as required.
  • Ensure effective MBOs (Management by Objectives) are in place for each team member and are monitored at regular intervals. Identify potential roadblocks and assist in counter measures to remove those roadblocks to improved performance.
  • Ensure that the team members they oversee are adhering to all safety, regulatory and legal requirements defined by New Flyer.
  • Be a critical contributor to the Winnipeg Plant’s goal to Delight Customers. Support and drive initiatives that aid in presenting buses devoid of customer dissatisfiers while meeting New Flyer’s quality standards. Develop relationships with customers to promote a harmonious relationship between them and New Flyer.
  • Provide resources to act as customer liaison with property inspection personnel. Ensure process exists to train property inspection personnel on New Flyer’s Quality system and provide the Property Inspection orientation.
  • Help drive the plant’s First-Time Quality initiative. Identify repeat defects and utilize the Quality Assurance System (QAS) to target inspections and present performance data to Production for resolution. Work with production leadership to identify plans to address those areas.
  • Support Operational Excellence and Lean Culture objectives with special emphasis of those areas related to Quality.
  • Support and endorse the use of the New Flyer/MCI Quality tools to drive Quality and Continuous Improvement. This includes support and completion of different projects and completion of Six Sigma Green Belt training as appropriate. Ensure that the tools are clearly understood, functioning as intended and providing the desired results.
  • Be strategic. Focus the Quality department’s and the organization’s finite resources on the highest-impact issues and have the discipline and managerial courage to de-prioritize other activities.
  • Collaborate with other Quality Managers to ensure a consistent approach to the execution of New Flyer’s Quality system.
  • Provide leadership and resources to ensure that all Plant cell teams have trained and high-performing Quality department representation supporting the cell team. Ensure Quality is active participant in problem resolution, scrap reduction and improvement opportunities for the cell.
  • Identify quality synergy opportunities between all orgs.
  • Support the maintenance of New Flyer’s ISO 9001 registration and New Flyer Management System including providing Quality department representation in the internal audit process.
  • Oversee corrective actions required at the plant for Quality issues identified after delivery to customer locations.
  • Responsible for Supplier Quality Assurance including providing trained resources to support First Article inspections and NCP process (Non-Conforming part), issuance and follow up of SCANs (Supplier Corrective Action Notices) and resolution of Supplier Quality issues.
  • Develop annual operating budget and monitor performance to budget on monthly basis.
  • Provide trained resources and support New Flyer’s Advanced Product Quality Planning process to ensure that Quality planning for upcoming builds is completed in a thorough and comprehensive manner. Ensure all available sources of data for planning purposes are being used effectively.
  • Provide trained resources for product inspections and ensure inspections are carried out in a standardized and consistent manner between inspection personnel.
  • Provide resources to support the coordination of shipment of buses and issues encountered with bus deliveries.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field required; Master’s degree strongly preferred.
  • Experience: Minimum 4 years in Quality Assurance and 3 years in management (preferably managing managers). Experience with a Fortune 500 company or equivalent in low-volume, high-mix industries (e.g., aerospace, commercial or recreational vehicles) preferred.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Leadership & Soft Skills: Strong leadership, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills; comfortable presenting to groups/customers; adaptable and flexible in dynamic environments.

Travel: Up to 10% or less.

OUR WHY: We exist to move people. Our mission is to design, deliver, and support market-leading bus and motor coach solutions that are safe, accessible, efficient, and reliable.

NFI Group | We Move People - YouTube

Leveraging 450 years of combined experience, NFI is leading the electrification of mass mobility around the world. With zero-emission buses and coaches, infrastructure, and technology, NFI meets today’s urban demands for scalable smart mobility solutions. Together, NFI is enabling more livable cities through connected, clean, and sustainable transportation. News and information is available at www.nfigroup.com, www.newflyer.com, www.mcicoach.com, nfi.parts, www.alexander-dennis.com, arbocsv.com, and carfaircomposites.com.

WHY JOIN US:

  • Be a part of a team leading the world’s electrification of mass mobility
  • Competitive Wages and comprehensive benefit package with Immediate benefit eligibility
  • Paid holidays and vacation
  • Passionate about creating a better product, a better workplace, and a better world
  • Inclusive workplace culture that values and empowers team members.
  • On-the-job training in a continuous learning environment (we’ve invested 10.9 million in 2023)
  • Advancement opportunities within our family of companies

New Flyer is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, ensure equitable experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment reflective of the communities we operate. Accommodations are available at all stages of the recruitment process, at the candidates’ request.

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