What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager - Plant position at Sonoco?
From a small family business to a multi-billion-dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 — all while keeping the heart of “People Build Businesses” alive.
Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people.
Reporting directly to the Director of Quality for Flexibles as a Plant Quality Manager you will be responsible for providing leadership to a large or complex plant in the area of maintaining and improving the quality systems as prescribed by the Division and the corporate standards. Duties include management of change control, data collection schemes, test methods & equipment, standard instructions, audits, manuals, and other routine quality systems areas. The Plant Quality Manager also must direct the activities of hourly quality staff when applicable. Other duties include training plant personnel in quality processes; facilitating improvement teams; managing compliance to specifications; and acting as product safety team leader, if applicable. In addition, Plant Quality Managers must serve as the point of contact with customers for product or service quality.
What you’ll be doing:
- Provide hands-on management of the elements of the QMS (Quality Management System.) These include quality action plans, corrective actions, supplier quality management, customer complaints, standard work, audit processes, standard procedures, test methods, and process controls.
- Ensure Business Unit systems are tied into corporate standards via reviews and audits
- Responsible for managing all change control and line validation
- Generate scorecards and reports for all aspects of plant quality, not limited to and including VOC, CARs, SCARs, COAs, on-time and in-full deliveries, SPC reporting, losses, product safety, internal, third party & customer audits and Change Control processes.
- Where applicable, manage the food safety team and organize its work, ensure relevant training and education of the food safety team members, ensure the food safety management system is established, implemented, maintained and updated, and report to the organization's top management on the effectiveness and suitability of the food safety management system
- Independently manages customer interactions as it relates to product or service quality
- Participate on teams and lead efforts toward continuous improvement initiatives within the plant
- Identify, define and promote awareness of customer requirements for the plant.
- Participates in cross-divisional teams or audits.
- Active member of the plant leadership team.
- Some level of travel required.
- Making decisions on staffing and schedule, project implementation schedules, budgets, test equipment, sub-standard material disposition
- Recommending new systems, changes, capital, product design and process changes
This position is located out of our Hickory, NC Facility and 100% onsite
We’d love to hear from you if:
- 4-year degree in Engineering; 7 years’ work experience
- ASQ Certification; lean six sigma experience
- project management experience; statistical analysis expertise, superior verbal and written communications skills
- ability to work across multiple functions and lines of business
- proficiency in the following software: Word, Power Point, Excel, MS Project, Visio, Share Point, SPC software & Agile
Compensation:
The annual base salary range for this role is from $107,040 to $120,420, plus a quarterly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.
At Sonoco Products Company, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive pay and benefits. *Benefits listed below are for employees located in the U.S. Specific benefits and wellbeing programs may vary depending on your location (within the U.S. or global), or if you are a union employee.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Wellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of services
- Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family
- Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.
Salary : $107,040 - $120,420
