Quality Manager

Are you a builder who can take our business to the next level?

TapeCase, a division of Ellsworth Corporation, is an industry-leading supplier of 3M Tape, 3M Abrasives, 3M Adhesives, 3M Products and a complete variety of industrial tapes, is adding a new role to our Elk Grove Village team- the Quality Manager. This role is ideal for someone looking for a growth opportunity into a management position. While this job is an individual contributor, there could be potential for personnel management in the future. Our ideal person has strong PPAP experience and is someone who can understand legacy businesses' workflows with the goal of making recommendations for efficiency and process improvement.

At TapeCase, we design, convert, manufacture, and distribute highly engineered adhesive tape products. We add value to the highly engineered products we sell by enhancing their delivered formats by offering expansive tape converting services to provide a custom tape solution for nearly any application. Learn more about us here.

Under the supervision of the Director of Business Operations, the Quality Manager will be responsible for documenting, evaluating, and optimizing existing manufacturing processes in alignment with TapeCase and ISO 9001 standards. The Quality Manager will also provide direct support to the Corporate Quality Manager and the Inside Sales, Purchasing, and Distribution teams for all Quality-related activities.

What you'll do in this role:

• Execute all PPAP’s and IMDS forms per customer requests
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with external customers, suppliers and internal departments like Customer Service, Sales, Manufacturing, Distribution, Purchasing, and Upper Management.
• Work directly with internal and external customers to address customer issues
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to identify and implement continuous improvement strategies
• Evaluate and continuously improve production and manufacturing processes through the development of a workflow
• Develop and execute quality systems and design methods to improve and/or enhance processes
• Perform quality assessments and monitor all activities for measuring processes
• Identify process non-value add areas and devise solutions to remove them from the process
• Create SOP’s and own quality documentation for manufacturing processes and operations, including trials, training guides, TPM’s and machine competency checklists
• Educate, train and lead new employees on quality procedures and ensure compliance to best practices
• Work cross functionally to lead the problem solving including 8D and make recommendations off of findings to the team with data based results
• Learn and understand the processes throughout the manufacturing to make informed recommendations and changes

Why you'll love working for us:

• Competitive pay with 10% bonus potential
• 401 (k) Match
• Medical and Dental Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation
• Company paid Insurance, Life, Short and Long-Term Disability

What we need from you:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college, preferably in engineering or quality, and 5 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Other combinations of education and experience may be considered as equivalent at the discretion of Human Resources and the hiring Manager
• PPAP experience is required.
• 8D is required.
• Experience writing and editing SOP documents and work instructions are required
• Previous ISO experience is desired, but we are willing to train the right person.

Our values
As individuals:

• We strive to achieve personal excellence; work as a team; communicate openly, honestly and with integrity.
• We are dedicated to the concept of continual improvement in everything we do.
• We expect ourselves, and those around us, to adhere to high standards of ethical and moral performance that demand our best effort.

As employees:

• We aim to speak and behave with dignity; treat every person with respect; maintain a safe and clean workplace; and be technologically current.
• We welcome disagreement in an effort to be better.
• We know that we represent corporate values.
• We will respond creatively to customers’ requests and society's fast-changing needs.
• As a responsible corporate employer:
• We obey all laws and regulations related to our products, processes and corporate conduct.
• We understand that our success will be determined not just by how hard we work, but how well we treat our customers. If we always strive to exceed the customer's expectations, then we will have succeeded.
• We concentrate on developing a strategy and marketing plan that uses all of our strengths and anticipates the market's need. If we concentrate on doing what we do best, then our achievement of sales goals can be realized.
  It is our long-term goal not just to maximize revenue but to develop a business model that employs quality people, have high expectations from them and anticipate our customer's needs easily so we can be prepared to meet the market's need.
• We know that we are winning when we are regarded by our suppliers as a valued partner who takes their products, adds value to them and expertly markets those finished goods to customers while facilitating an enjoyable buying experience.
• We strive to avoid injuries, reduce waste and promote educational resourcefulness.
• We provide health insurance and access to a 401(k) program to all employees.

Ellsworth Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal access to programs, services and employment to all persons. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation for any part of our employment process, please follow the instructions on our Accessibility Accommodation for Applicants page of our Careers website.

Ellsworth Corporation is an industry leading global corporation, we specialize in the distribution, manufacturing and custom packaging of adhesives, specialty chemicals and dispensing equipment. We stand apart from the competition by going above and beyond high quality products. We offer expert assistance, valuable services, decades of experience, and a host of resources to ensure we're providing the best possible solution for our customers’ applications.

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