Amcor Rigid Plastics
Sr. Manager, Quality Management - Beverage Group
Amcor is the world's largest publicly traded packaging company; a market and innovation leader adding value to the world's most recognizable brands.
•Headquartered in Melbourne Australia Amcor is a global leader in responsible global packaging solutions supplying a broad range of rigid & flexible packaging products into the food, beverage, healthcare, home and personal care and tobacco packaging industries.
•As the world's largest packaging company, Amcor offers exclusive and innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the packaging industry.
•Today, Amcor has more than 27,000 co-workers working together across more than 180 sites in over 40 countries.
•We are: Global, Customer-driven, Innovative, Responsible and Talented.
Position Overview:
The Senior Manager, Quality Management provides Quality Systems and Management support to the beverage operations throughout North America. The position will have ownership of the internal Product Safety oriented Quality Management Systems execution and auditing for the Beverage Business Group. Additionally, the position will lead proactive and reactive commercial activities along with operational activities support.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
•Responsibility for the structure, successful implementation, and maintenance of the Amcor Product Safety Oriented Quality Management System in Beverage Group manufacturing facilities
•Establishes and implements best practices in standards, methods, and procedures across all plants in the operating group
•Ensures that quality management activities are directed towards process improvement, continuous quality improvement, cost effectiveness of processes, systems and procedures, and permanent corrective / preventive actions
•Responsible for compiling and reporting upon overall cost of quality as related to external failures, internal failures, and appraisal cost as a % of sales as well as other metrics
•Uses Advanced Quality Planning to affect the delivery of reliable, high quality product designs and manufacturing systems through the provision of pro-active planning activities, support systems and procedures
•Organizes and implements training programs and processes to deliver fully capable and validated products to production
•Provides key contact and communications to group customers of the Beverage Group Quality Systems and Management Philosophy, presenting capacity to customers as a core competency
•Is responsible for selection, development, mentoring of Plant level Quality Managers as well as Quality Management staff within the Corporate Beverage business group. Supports operations in the evaluation of performance of plant level staff engaged in the Quality Management function
•Provides training, support and leadership to product development and operations engineers about the reliability and process capability of new products
•Ensures plant audits from customers or vendor site visits are properly carried out to assure compliance and customer expectations
•Provides key contacts and communications to group customers during tactical incidents relating to facts, organizing and coordinating investigations, establishing corrective actions, securing funding and successfully closing incidents
•Represents Amcor in industry professional, technical, and trade associations as appropriate
•Manages systems verifications through Third Party Auditing (i.e. Good Manufacturing Practices Audits, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Accreditation, and Product Safety Certifications, etc.)
•Drives proactive, long-term, systemic improvements in Quality Systems and Production Process Controls across the production facilities and their diverse production platforms. Identifies and secures funding for permanent corrective actions to stabilize production operations and customer relationships and grow the business
•Manages team of direct reports and is responsible for employee selection, development, mentoring, and performance management. Responsible for overall talent management and employee engagement; cultivates an environment of safety, high performance, and ethical and legal compliance; addresses employee relations issues
Qualifications:
•Education: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Quality Systems, Engineering, Operations Management or other related technical disciplines. Significant post-graduate accreditations expected, Master's Degree preferred
•Plastics process and chemical engineering skills preferred
•10 years' experience in plastics packaging manufacturing/packaging industries
•A minimum of four... For full info follow application link.
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