**Trinity Rail de Mexico** Seeks **Quality Assurance Manager** **Primary Purpose:** Implement and continuously improve the company's Quality Management System at its respective plant, ensuring compliance with customer requirements and national and international legal and regulatory standards. **General Responsibilities:** * Define plant-wide initiatives to implement the QMS. * Develop a strategic plan integrating quality and long-term business objectives, defining the quality policy, reviewing it when necessary, and modifying it when corrective actions are required. * Develop work plans to align processes with strategic business objectives. * Define priorities based on changes in the environment and corporate policies of the company. * Lead and manage process performance, as well as supervise activities of Plant Managers and area managers across each business unit within the plant. * Manage and ensure compliance and continuous improvement of the QMS to serve as a benchmark for other divisions, acting as a change agent. * Assist senior management in understanding how to integrate quality objectives with business goals and how total quality methodologies can contribute to these objectives. * Monitor the organization to ensure adherence to the quality policy by auditing the Quality Management System and its processes. * Support business units in achieving their objectives through selection and validation of quality plans. * Lead and support team members to contribute to the effectiveness of the Safety, Health, and Environment Management System, ensuring continuous improvement. * Foster a positive safety culture that supports the intended outcomes of the Safety, Health, and Environment Management System, promoting participation from all employees in management system committees. * Protect employees from retaliation when reporting incidents, hazards, risks, and opportunities. * Continuously promote a zero-injury and zero-incident culture within their area of responsibility. * Participate in daily and monthly SQDCE meetings and GEMBA Walks, resolving issues and providing required support to plants to meet SQDCE KPI targets according to current procedures. * Participate in daily and monthly SQDCE meetings and GEMBA Walks, resolving issues and providing required support to plants to meet SQDCE KPI targets according to current procedures. * Ensure sustainable compliance with standards, procedures, and rules in processes under their responsibility, not allowing unsafe conditions or risky behaviors. * Investigate and analyze root causes of non-compliances, deviations, and incidents, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence and enable horizontal deployment. **Education:** Engineering Degree or Equivalent **Experience: 3\-5 years of work experience performing functions within the company** **Languages Advanced English** **Competencies** * Functional Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge of concepts, theories, and principles within their own discipline and basic knowledge of other disciplines. * Business Experience: Applies specific experience and knowledge of the industrial sector and how their own discipline contributes to achieving objectives. * Leadership: Manages a relatively homogeneous team of professionals; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges. * Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves technical, operational, and sub-function problems. * Impact: Impacts service levels and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume, and on-time delivery objectives. Guided by policies, resource requirements, budgets, and business plans. * Interpersonal Skills: Guides, influences, and persuades other professionals, either internally across departments or externally with clients or agencies. **Knowledge:** * Design and development of Quality documentation (standards, Quality Assurance procedures, Quality Plans, MQARs, etc.) for implementation at the plant. * Management of the plant’s Quality Control and Non-Destructive Testing teams. * Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows environment