What Does a Quality Assurance Director Do?

The director of quality is the general manager of the quality of the products and services provided by the company.

quality supervisor

(Occupation)

Becoming a quality director means that you have the ability to control the development of the company, because quality is the life of the company. The director of quality is the general manager of the quality of the products and services provided by the company. Quality must be reflected not only in the company's products, but also in every behavior of the company. More importantly, quality requires the concerted efforts of all employees to ensure it. The quality director must have excellent strategic skills and team leadership skills, be able to lead the company's quality management team, and mobilize all employees to work to reduce defect rates, service costs, customer satisfaction, and productivity and revenue.

What the Quality Director does

Organize the formulation of the company's quality policy, lead the establishment of an internal quality system and corresponding quality target groups, formulate quality control work processes and systems and operating specifications, supervise and check the implementation of the system;

Host internal quality review and external quality audit, and track improvement of quality system;

Ensuring the establishment, implementation and maintenance of the company's quality system, and fulfilling the right of quality veto;

Participate in determining the supplier's review results, and control and improve the supplier's supply quality and cost improvement;

Supervise and guide the acceptance, verification and improvement of existing products of new products and new process materials, and review of technical documents;

Resolve production site support and quality issues, adjust quality disputes, and investigate and analyze major quality accidents.

Quality Director Career Requirements

Education and training: Bachelor degree or above in related majors related to science and engineering.

Work experience: For formal large and medium-sized enterprises, more than 5 years of industry experience is required, and at least 3 years of quality management experience. Have practical operation experience in the establishment and maintenance of quality management system, can comprehensively grasp the process and management of internal and external certification and auditing work; have strong organizational skills; For SMEs or entrepreneurial enterprises, the requirements for experience and quality are much lower, often depending on the actual development stage and status of the enterprise.

Quality Director salary quotes

Salary levels vary depending on the company's industry and the size of the company itself. The quality director's salary for SMEs is relatively low.

Quality Director Career Development Path

Process improvement and quality improvement are the key to break through the development bottleneck of manufacturing enterprises, so product-related quality control and quality management talents are in short supply. Quality directors have broad employment prospects, generally developed by quality management managers or quality control managers, and can be promoted to chief engineer or vice president in charge of quality.