MANAGER OF QUALITY/ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE CERTIFICATION CMQ/OE

WHO SHOULD CERTIFY?

The Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence is a professional who leads and champions process-improvement initiatives – everywhere from small businesses to multinational corporations – that can have regional or global focus in a variety of service and industrial settings.

A Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence facilitates and leads team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, supports strategic planning and deployment initiatives, and helps develop measurement systems to determine organizational improvement.

The Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence should be able to motivate and evaluate staff, manage projects and human resources, analyze financial situations, determine and evaluate risk, and employ knowledge management tools and techniques in resolving organizational challenges.

The Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence evolved from the certified quality manager as a way to broaden the scope of the examination. The Quality Management Division surveyed certified quality managers and other recognized subject matter experts.

REQUIREMENTS
10 years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Body of Knowledge.
5 years of on-the-job experience must be in a “Decision-making” position.
A “Decision-making” position is defined as the authority to define, execute, or control projects/processes and to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory positions.
If you’ve been certified by ASQ as a quality auditor, reliability engineer, software quality engineer, or quality engineer, experience used to qualify for certification in these fields applies to certification as a manager of quality/organizational excellence, as long as the 10-year minimum requirement is met.
Candidates must have worked in a full-time, paid role.

EDUCATION
Candidates who have completed a degree from a college, university or technical school will have part of the 10-year experience requirement waived, as follows (only one of these waivers may be claimed):
Diploma from a technical or trade school — one year will be waived.
Associate degree — two years waived.
Bachelor’s degree — four years waived.
Master’s or doctorate — five years waived.