Operations Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement Manager

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments

We are currently looking for a Operations Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement Manager to join us in Hyderabad, Telangana OR Banmore, Madhya Pradesh, India. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Main purpose

- The Operational Quality Assurance (OQA) Manager sets strategy to support operations to deliver right first time.
- The incumbent ensures that appropriate verification and validation methods are applied and that operational processes are defined, followed, and monitored.
- The incumbent will support the successful roll out, implementation, stabilization, and improvement of quality and continuous improvement fundamentals (such as PDCA, routines, first part right, problem solving)
- The incumbent defines the quality strategy and support the CI strategy for his area of responsibility and ensure proper implementation.

Key responsibilities

OQA Multi plant Strategy

- Defining strategy with Indus multi plants lead and Territory lead and implement processes to secure continuous improvement of quality of product and processes.

Quality processes Compliance

- Planning and assuring legal compliance of production and quality processes
- Process governance, audit especially in production areas and with MES/HYDRA
- Supporting & monitoring and closure of preventive and corrective actions from audits.

Quality product Compliance

- Supporting site/Product manager for proper quality risks management for gate 4 to 7, especially for Advance product quality planning related topics (i.e. PFMEA, Capabilities, SPC, Gage R&R, quality plan). Connect and align with PQA and SQA.
- Ensure convergence of quality plans for similar product manufactured in different plants. Connect with WCS organization.

Quality culture and continuous improvement maturity grow

- Methodological support /coaching to plant and business for severe quality issues (especially quality alerts).
- Methodological support /coaching to plant and business for strategic continuous improvement projects.
- When required, taking the lead on Problem solving with quality issues involving multi-site, suppliers etc. and ensuring proper communication / alignment with quality community (global and/or site Q).
- Coaching site for proper deployment and usage of Quality and continuous improvement fundamentals: PDCA, Routines, escalations, Problems solving, 5S, SMED, TPM, idea management (including best practices).
- Work closely with plant CI leaders & plant managers to ensure CI standards implementation through coaching, training and project delivery support.

Improve Customer experience and quality performance visibility

- Coaching and assuring systematic and mature use of the CRM tool for Quality claims + systematic Root cause analysis.
- Lead monitoring, reporting and maturity growth for KPI’s (Claims, PPM, CoPQ, CARs, APQP…) and provide management summary.

Our requirements

- Master Engineering degree or equivalent with 5-8 years of experience; of which 3-5 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement lead roles
- Profound knowledge and experience of quality standards and quality checks.
- Profound knowledge of Wavin's products and their acceptance criteria.
- Expert knowledge and experience Quality methodologies and continuous improvement (quality assurance, quality controls, APQP, Lean, 6 Sigma methodologies)
- Site quality or Lab responsibility experience (ISO auditor preferred).
- Experience with multi-site complex Problem-solving support and resolution (lean expert/ 6 Sigma black belt preferred).
- International working experience in an industrial organization.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

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