Company: Komatsu

Location: Lively, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:07:54 GMT

Job description: Job DescriptionQuality ManagerPosting Start Date: 8/6/25Job Location (Short): Lively, Ontario, CAN, P3Y 1K6Requisition ID: 33784Onsite or Remote: Onsite PositionLocation: Magill – Hard Rock CanadaManager: General Manager – Manufacturing Ops – Hard Rock North AmericaDivision: ManufacturingShift: 5×2Travel Requirements: Up to 15%Job OverviewThe Quality Manager sets the quality strategy for Hard Rock’s operations and products, aligning it with market demands, customer expectations, and business needs. Working with department leaders, this role implements actions to boost efficiency, quality, and productivity, aiming to enhance customer satisfaction and lower costs. Additionally, the role ensures compliance with quality standards and customer requirements by managing quality policies, procedures, programs, and practices.Key Job Responsibilities

• Develops and implements quality processes within the hard rock division to enhance business performance and customer satisfaction. This covers internal and third-party engineering drawing quality and product quality.
• Coordinates staff across different disciplines to plan and agree on comprehensive quality procedures.
• Establishes a system to identify root causes and eliminate recurring issues. Implements visual quality across all business functions to drive efficiency improvements.
• Maps out quality processes accurately to ensure consistent practices among team members. Identifies risks and opportunities in quality-related processes and develops mitigation strategies. Maintains records to show quality management performance and an effective corrective/preventive action system.
• Prepares productivity/quality reports for management and enforces a strong product quality program from proposal to project closeout. Implements project closeout processes to integrate lessons learned.
• Manages the company’s inspection and product release programs for incoming/in-process materials and finished goods, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, quality policy, company standards, regulatory, and external standards. Validates quality processes by establishing specifications, measuring production, and updating procedures.
• Oversees the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for designated parts.
• Oversees quality functions like inspections, analysis, and training. Make final decisions on non-conforming materials and monitor employee adherence to quality standards. Enhances inspection methods, equipment performance, product quality, efficiency, and morale. Ensures vendor compliance with pre-qualifications and material quality requirements.
• Aligns quality processes and tools across North American Underground Hard Rock production facilities.
• Leads the ISO program by ensuring compliance with standards, coordinating audits, and driving continuous improvement. Develop and implement policies, train staff, and collaborate with departments to achieve and maintain certification.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of relevant overall experience with 5 years specifically in Project Management or Quality, within a manufacturing or industrial related environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in quality, Mechanical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
• PMI Project Management or 6S Quality certification preferred
• Significant knowledge of supply chain management and quality processes.
• Fluent with ISO quality standards and models.
• Technical aptitude, good understanding of hydraulic and electrical system design.
• Ability to take broad business concepts and apply them to specific practical work processes and documentation.
• Good understanding of manufacturing engineering and assembly processes.
• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines when required.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills, high attention to detail.
• Experienced with Microsoft Office software.
• Personable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Customer-focused.
• Certified internal auditor is an asset.

KAdditional Offerings

• Relocation Support

Company BenefitsKomatsu provides an extensive and robust employee package that is designed to enhance the well-being of our employees and family members. We embrace a positive and empowering employee experience with a culture that prides itself on a diverse and inclusive environment.

• Competitive wages
• Annual Bonus
• Comprehensive health and insurance benefits package
• Company-sponsored registered pension plan (RPP) and matching program
• Employee and family assistance programs
• Personal wellness allowance
• Paid uniform and personal protective equipment
• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick time
• Company-supplied tools
• Training and education support
• Employee social engagement activities and benefits

KDiversity & Inclusion CommitmentAt Komatsu we come from diverse backgrounds, with unique perspectives, experiences, and contributions. We are committed to creating a workforce that is reflective of the communities we work and live in. We believe that our people are part of our shared purpose. We are authentic, ambitious, and innovative in our pursuit of Diversity & Inclusion. United, we are on a journey towards a sustainable future that creates value together.If you want to learn more about Komatsu, please visit our website atkCompany InformationKomatsu is a world leader in manufacturing construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment. Founded in 1921, Komatsu has a long history of quality, reliability, innovation, and excellence. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Komatsu facilities, distributors and dealers are in more than 140 countries and employ more than 60,000 people. Komatsu offers a diverse and challenging work environment, where you can grow your skills and career, and contribute to a sustainable, clean-energy future. If you are looking for a company that values your talent and potential, be a part of something big and join a team that is shaping the world!Focusing exclusively on the underground hard rock, underground soft rock, and surface mining sectors, Komatsu Mining designs, manufactures, distributes, and services extensive product lines of highly reliable Komatsu underground hard rock mining equipment, P&H surface mining equipment and JOY underground mining machinery to support the production of valuable minerals for our mining customers worldwide. Komatsu Mining’s products and related technologies and services are used extensively for mining copper, silver, iron, gold, coal, salt and other mineral resources.kEEO StatementKomatsu is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, marital status, family status, disability or genetic characteristics.As we search for collective healing and true reconciliation, we strive to build respectful relationships with the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We would like to acknowledge that most of our team members gather, work, and play on the traditional ancestral homelands of Indigenous Peoples and Nations across Canada, each with their own unique history, culture, and traditions.Accommodations during the recruitment process are available on request.While we appreciate all applicant submissions, only those considered to be most qualified will be contacted for further assessment.kAbout KomatsuSite informationContact© Copyright 2025 Komatsu America Corp and Affiliates. All Rights Reserved.×Cookie Consent ManagerWhen you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.Required CookiesThese cookies are required to use this website and can’t be turned off.Show More DetailsRequired Cookies Provider Description Enabled
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