Senior Director, Quality Assurance

Trinity Industries, Inc. headquartered in Dallas, Texas is a diversified industrial company that owns a variety of market-leading businesses which provide products and services to the industrial, energy, transportation, and construction sectors. Trinity reports its financial results in five principal business segments: the Rail Group, the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Inland Barge Group, the Construction Products Group and the Energy Equipment Group.  Trinity’s businesses provide capital goods and services ranging from railcars to barges, construction materials to propane tanks, highway guardrail to structural wind towers, railcar parts to crash cushions, and railcar leasing and management services.  

Trinity’s vision is to be a premier, multi-industry growth company that generates superior earnings and returns for its shareholders, and to offer a safe, productive and challenging work environment for our employees.  

TrinityRail Maintenance Services is searching for a talented team player to fill the open position of Senior Director, Quality Assurance in our Dallas, TX office!  We welcome your ideas and your outstanding work ethic.  Join our team today and be a part of Helping to Build America. ™      

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement vision and strategy for a transformational total quality - management system (QMS) approach for manufacturing plants including systems, processes, technology, programs, people training and communication
• Evaluate existing organizational and programmatic elements of TrinityRail Maintenance Services quality control, quality assurance and compliance and develop a roadmap to execute the vision and strategy
• Establish and embed a quality culture mindset throughout the organization and partner with production, supply chain, and engineering
• Establish objective evidence and criteria to comply with government regulations, state requirements and regulations and Trinity requirements
• Ensure compliance with applicable internal and external regulations, standards, policies, and procedures related to the quality and regulatory status and performance of company operations, processes and people
• Initiates and implements quality improvement activities as appropriate (e.g., Kaizen, Six Sigma) to raise the performance of the company’s product lines.
• Educates and trains employees as to their impact in the quality management system
• Serves as the primary quality control resource for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement
• Manages quality control personnel on a day-to-day basis
• Supports concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality assurance and the customer
• Designs, implements and documents procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection
• Establish and implement metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions
• Performs root-cause analysis and other problem solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements
• Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality
• Analyzes customers’ product specifications to establish efficient, cost-effective requirements for ease of manufacture and reproducibility
• Develops quality planning methods for all product lines
• Develops process certification standards and assist in process certification
• Monitors vendor performance and establish criteria and rating system for critical vendors
• Reviews customer purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
• Interacts with customers to identify opportunities to improve quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel
• Oversees calibration and testing programs
• Reports to management on quality issues, trends and losses
• Reviews suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements
• Participates in internal and external quality audits
• Interfaces with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality control and assure that effective corrective action is implemented