Quality Manager

Amcor • Appleton, WI

238d

About The Position

The Plant Quality Manager is the quality advocate for the plant, providing leadership for the quality and food safety systems and programs. Key drivers are assuring compliance to specifications on incoming materials, in-process conditions and finished products. The Plant Quality Manager also assures the ongoing reduction of quality attribute variation utilizing Statistical Process Control (SPC) methodology to improve the acceptance of our products by our customers. In addition, Plant Quality Managers must serve as the point of contact with customers when product quality exceptions occur.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or other Technical field.
• ASQ CMQ/QE or ASQ CQE certification preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing industry experience to include positions in both quality QA/QC and Operations/Production.
• 2-3 years of demonstrated achievement in a Leadership /Supervisory position.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification or willingness to obtain such certification is required.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Must have a thorough understanding of common Quality and Problem Solving tools such as Statistical Analysis, DOE, Pareto charts and Histograms.
• Strong proficiency in PC-based tools including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook required.
• Minitab and previous ERP experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a safety leader and puts safety first in all responsibilities.
• Works in conjunction with the EHS Manager to establish and maintain all policies and programs to assure a safe working environment.
• Provide hands-on management of the elements of the Quality Management System.
• Ensure training is conducted for quality management system elements.
• Ensure plant systems are tied into corporate standards via reviews and audits.
• Generate scorecards and reports for all aspects of plant quality.
• Ensure that food safety and quality systems satisfy and meet at all times all customer specifications, internal and regulatory requirements.
• Conducts advanced statistical analysis and process capabilities for process and product quality.
• Independently manages customer interactions as it relates to product or service quality.
• Identify, define and promote awareness of customer requirements for the plant.
• Manages and trains the activities of the Quality Team including the lab/quality technicians.
• Actively participates and leads teams in support of continuous improvement initiatives and establish a CI culture.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement in Quality.
• Active member of the plant leadership team.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans.
• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees.
• Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location.
• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account.
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match.
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval).
• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree