Re: Organizational Charts
We were recently told in a customer audit that would not accept our engineering manager being our quality manager as well. While not expressly forbibben in general, alot depends on who you are working for. Our customers send thier auditors in once or twice per year, and audit us to thier QMS , even though our own QMS is much less developed, (we are a small company, our customers are 1000+). We have had to separate functions strictly for this reason alone.
To answer the original question, the manager (or director) usually reports to a top level position in the company. ISO says that the designated management representative should report to a top level position, whether that person is the QA manager is another story of course.