Overview

About Berry

At Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY), we create innovative packaging and engineered products that we believe make life better for people and the planet. We do this every day by leveraging our unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation expertise to serve customers of all sizes around the world. Harnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of over 40,000 global employees across more than 250 locations, we partner with customers to develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. The challenges we solve and the innovations we pioneer benefit our customers at every stage of their journey. For more information, visit our website , or connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

In this role, the candidate will be the site’s quality representative internally to management, employees and externally to our customers and vendors. The candidate will have the lead responsibility for the QMS recognizing that everyone in the site is responsible for helping ensure quality. The candidate needs to have a good understanding of the technologies involved in the design, manufacture and test of the sites products. The candidate should have experience with how an effective Quality Management System can ensure quality in our products and positively impact achieving the sites business goals. The Quality manager works with others on the site leadership team to prepare the annual budget and achieve performance goals driving to customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Provides direction, coaching, and training for all quality team members and ensures they work safely.

• Utilizes process control methodology (Six Sigma, SPC, designed experiments, etc.) to solve problems and improve process control and capability.

• Supports the efforts of the process engineers in investigating and resolving quality issues, making recommendations for preventive action, optimizing current products and processes, and commercializing new products.

• Develop and maintain systems including performance measurements, failure costs, control systems, quality standards, and product and process capability for all raw materials and finished products by utilizing such tools as statistical methods, pareto charts, flow charting, and failure mode effects analysis.

• Establish and maintain a process and quality assurance audit function to ensure compliance with standards and specifications. Develop corrective action plans and systems.

• Direct efforts in gaining and maintaining knowledge of trends in the industry that lead to improvements in product quality, product consistency, process efficiency, or cost reductions.

• Define process specifications, which include operating conditions, set points, tolerances, processing procedures, and packaging specifications, based on a strong understanding of customer requirements.

• Ensures plans are in place to meet all performance indicator targets and goals. Report to leadership management on the performance of the QMS (e.g., results of quality audits, corrective actions), including the need for improvement.

• Serves as a resource on FMEA's, change management, designed experiments, Six Sigma, and other process control tools.

• Interfaces with multiple functions and customers to resolve problems, respond to customer complaints, develop corrective actions, develop new products, and improve existing processes.

• Improve quality performance by developing quality assurance plans, auto-control and SPC processes, training, and audits.

• Provide leadership for continuous improvement for the overall production system by reducing internal, external, and supplier PPM.

• Support customer's requirements with regards to quality complaints and feedback, including quality requirements and improvement plans.

• Simplify tools and processes to increase the efficiency of the Quality Organization.

• Manage and improve global risk mitigation plan for the business.

• Ensure that the organization’s Quality Management System conforms to customer, internal, ISO 9001, and regulatory and legal requirements.

• Ensure evaluation of, and reporting on, vendor quality systems.

• Conduct periodic management review meetings.

• Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering

• Six Sigma Green Belt required

• Six Sigma Black Belt is strongly preferred

• minimum of seven years of increasing responsibilities in a manufacturing environment (preferably in extrusion, textile or paper)

• CQM or CQE through ASQ is highly desirable

• Experience in statistical methods, including SPC, capability studies, etc.

• Excellent communications skills

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. (https://careers-berryglobal.icims.com/jobs/23713/quality-assurance-manager/job?mode=apply&apply=yes&in_iframe=1&hashed=-1834445335)

Location US-NC-Statesville

Job ID 2024-23713

Position Type Regular Full-Time

Category Quality Assurance & ISO Management

Location : Address 200 Deer Ridge Road