Quality Team Leader

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

Furniture

A Leader in the Upholstered Furniture Industry

In our Furniture Components business, we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort, motion, and style in upholstered furniture, including recliner mechanisms, seating support systems, and sofa sleeper units. With a global footprint that includes international manufacturing, product development, distribution and sales, we are strategically positioned to support upholstered furniture manufacturers around the world.

Workplace Furniture Solutions

Leggett & Platt is North America’s leading independent manufacturer of office furniture components and mechanism. Our Work Furniture business produces task and finished components, as well as select lines of private label finished seating. From surface-critical bent tube assemblies and molded plywood components to chair mechanisms, bases, arms, seats, and backs, Work Furniture brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality contract furniture products.

Learn more about Furniture components: Furniture

Learn more about Work Furniture: Work Furniture

Major Actions and Support Actions

1. Responsible for the inspection and testing of manufacturing processes, materials and products to ensure product quality compliance with standards
2. Arrange daily work according to the production plan and hold class meetings regularly.
3. Carefully and strictly inspect according to the inspection standards to ensure product quality to the greatest extent.
4. Carefully record relevant data and submit them in time.
5. Solve the quality problems in the process and report to the superiors in a timely manner.
6. Supervise the implementation of the work content and responsibilities of the inspectors, and reasonably dispatch team members.
7. Actively understand the ideological status of employees, provide correct guidance, resolve conflicts, help employees develop a positive attitude and establish a good image of themselves, and report to superiors in a timely manner when necessary.
8. Provide suggestions for improvement for department managers.
9. Maintains designated work area clean and orderly.
10. Committed to the implementation and continuous improvement of the current quality management system.
11. Take appropriate actions to prevent any non-conformities related to products, processes and/or systems.
12. Identify and/or record any issues with products, processes and management systems.
13. Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through designated channels.
14. Validate implementation of the solution.
15. Control the further handling, delivery, or installation of non-conforming products until the defect or non-conformance is corrected.
16. Preparation, update and review of relevant documents.
17. Measurement equipment planning: management equipment & calibrating equipment periodically.
18. Complete other tasks assigned by superiors.

Educational requirements, Certifications: College or bachelor’s degree in quality management, Engineering, or related fields.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in quality control, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Managing quality control systems.
• Experience in multiple areas of quality management, such as inspection, testing, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in managing quality-related projects, including planning, execution, and evaluation, is beneficial.
• Familiarity with international quality standards and regulations can be a significant asset.

What to Do Next

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Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture, processes and practices promote equal opportunity for all. Join us!

We welcome and encourage all applicants to apply. We’d love the opportunity to consider you.

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