Quality Manager

Energizer Holdings•Vandalia, OH

9d•$110,000 - $139,000

About The Position

As the Quality Manager for Energizer’s Global Auto Care business, you will be responsible for managing and ensuring the outstanding quality of products, providing support to our Dayton Plant and product teams translating and integrating improvements into our operations seamlessly sustaining and improving the foundational quality competencies and capabilities utilizing Chemical Engineering, Quality principles and tools, and applying our manufacturing processes, product requirements, manufacturing equipment and quality systems to prevent and resolve manufacturing technical problems, and product quality issues.

Requirements

5+ years of experience Supervisory/Management role
Experience with chemical manufacturing process, control systems, and Quality Management Systems in a chemical manufacturing, packaging or bottling environment
Bachelor's degree preferably in a Chemical or Process Engineering or appropriate experience in lieu of degree
5+ years of experience in Chemical Engineering, chemical blending, or Supplier Quality improvement processes
Quality assurance experience – systems and projects
Financial acumen related to operation & capital projects
Demonstrate strong leadership, managerial, communication and interpersonal skills to work in a collaborative team environment
Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
Work with multifunctional teams and effectively interface with external partners

Nice To Haves

ISO Certification experience
SMETA 4-Pillar experience
GMP Certified experience
Six Sigma Certification

Responsibilities

Manage and lead a staff of quality engineers & technicians responsible for quality control of products produced or received at our facilities
Communicate product issues and changes across functions, facilities and managerial levels
Apply quality and chemical engineering principles and design intent knowledge in proposing/revising/approving changes to current plant processes, product and equipment and quality systems (chemical/physical analysis, document control, change management, manufacturing testing, traceability, SPC)
Analyze data of various types to identify trends or concerns and relate to underlying system or process issues
Champion risk mitigation and change management through temporary change authorization, potential problem analysis and failure mode effects analysis
Develop metrics and strategies for improvement of product quality and minimizing quality-related downtime or rework
Participate and/or lead, as assigned, teams to remove roadblocks to operational teams related to improving process, products, and equipment as well as achieving cost savings
Lead plant troubleshooting efforts as needed to maintain compliance with process and product specifications
Participate in capital projects and provide quality related feedback to engineers and Value Stream Manager
Partner with RD&E to ensure documentation of test methods, material and product specifications, and other plant procedures is accurate and complete
Contribute to new product development teams to ensure quality is built into the design of our products
Promote and establish partnerships with suppliers and contract manufacturers to ensure acceptable quality of raw materials, components, and externally sourced products as well as issue Supplier CAR’s as appropriate
Apply quality tools to identify deficiencies and drive to root cause to keep projects on track
Coordinate or lead as appropriate efforts to understand, remedy, and respond corrective actions to customer complaints
Lead 2 shift operations department for chemical blending production process/team
Lead ISO 9001 Internal/External audits as well as be the Quality representative for any additional plant certificates