As the Quality Team Manager, you will lead material processing quality across Mixing, Calendering, Cutter, Extruder, and Bead processes, ensuring consistent, high-quality materials that meet Goodyear and customer standards. You will ensure compliance with Goodyear Quality Management System (GQMS) and material specifications, drive initiatives to reduce waste and process variation, provide technical guidance for in-process quality control and compound verification, and support new material development and product validation.
What You'll Do
- Technical Proficiency & Process Quality Control - You will lead quality assurance for Mixing, Calendering, Cutter, Extruder, and Bead areas, ensuring all in-process materials meet Goodyear specifications. You will oversee testing, inspection, and verification of compound quality, drive improvements in batch consistency and material uniformity, collaborate with engineers to resolve nonconformities, and lead investigations with effective CAPA implementation.
- Process Improvement, Performance & Waste Reduction - You will analyze process data to identify root causes of defects, lead continuous improvement projects to reduce waste and off-spec materials, monitor and enhance KPIs like defect rate and yield, optimize compound preparation and calendering, and partner with operations to ensure stable, repeatable production conditions.
- New Material Development & Industrialization - You will support new compound introduction, process validation, and industrialization trials, verify process capability and material conformity before production release, collaborate with R&D and production on parameter optimization, ensure compliance with technical and corporate standards, and capture learnings to standardize best practices.
- System Compliance & Audit Readiness - You will ensure operations comply with GQMS, IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and legal requirements, conduct audits, maintain proper documentation and traceability, and ensure timely CAPA implementation and closure of audit findings.
- Team Development & Quality Culture - You will develop the skills of QA engineers, lab staff, and operators, promote a proactive quality culture, provide training on quality standards and defect detection, and engage your team to achieve continuous improvement in quality KPIs.
What We're Looking For
- You hold a bachelor's degree.
- You have strong knowledge of rubber compounding, mixing, calendering, extrusion, and bead winding processes.
- You are familiar with compound testing, SPC, and process capability analysis.
- You are skilled in problem-solving and root cause analysis, including 8D, DMAIC, and FMEA methodologies.
- You have a solid understanding of GQMS, IATF 16949, and material quality standards.
- You demonstrate effective leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
What Will Set You Apart
- You energize the team and maintain a positive attitude with peers, providing constructive feedback and planning and leading meetings.
- You give clear and concise technical guidance, manage or deflect conflicts, provide technical direction, and reach logical conclusions within your function while actively seeking leadership opportunities.
- You cooperate with other teams to achieve objectives, influence others, drive positive change, incorporate lessons learned into effective strategies, confront and address risks for yourself and others, and apply global communication skills.
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to Goodyear.com.
Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
