What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at LMI Packaging?
QUALITY MANAGER
LMI Packaging is a flexible packaging company, serving the food, beverage, pet, health & beauty, and household industries. We are a fast-growing, third generation, family business with a hyper focus on company culture and community outreach. Located right over the Wisconsin border, between Chicago and Milwaukee makes commuting a breeze.
Are you action-oriented and thrive in a fast-paced team environment where you are empowered to make decisions? Do you have strong problem-solving skills, manage your time and responsibilities well, are excited to learn and grow your career and are able to navigate ambiguity? Are you a natural leader, able to effectively communicate a vision and plan? If so, we’d love to engage further regarding our Quality Manger Role.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Quality Manger will be responsible for providing overall facilitation and leadership guidance for the Quality Management System to ensure quality standards are met, meet the SQF Code, customer quality system requirements, and external regulatory bodies. You’d be a company leader, partnering directly with our leadership and support teams.
The Quality Manger will be responsible for providing overall facilitation and leadership guidance for the Quality Management System to ensure quality standards are met, meet the SQF Code, customer quality system requirements, and external regulatory bodies. You’d be a company leader, partnering directly with our leadership and support teams.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be a cultural fit to LMI including the qualities: team player, desire to learn and grow, glass half-full positive mindset, service oriented with willingness to participate in community outreach activities, of high integrity character.
- Regularly inspect work to ensure quality standards are met and proper procedures are followed, on all shifts.
- Ensure that members of the Quality team, along with members of Operations, regularly monitoring and inspecting production, to ensure quality standards are met and proper procedures followed, on all shifts.
- Communicate extremely timely, and with tremendous professionalism, both verbally and in writing, when customers experience quality concerns.
- Work hand-in-hand with Operations to develop corrective action plans when quality issues are encountered by customers, and communicate those corrective actions to customers, both verbally and in writing, on a timely basis.
- Prioritize, schedule and delegate work assignments, and directly supervise the quality staff to ensure the meeting or exceeding quality management system expectations and standards within the SQF (Safe Quality Food) code.
- Facilitate continuous improvement within the Quality Management System and business growth.
- Develop and provide training to the site for continuous improvement and educational development of SQF Code.
- Maintain oversight and facilitate internal and external activities required for effectiveness of the Quality Management System and SQF Certification including
- Internal audit activities including: Internal Audit Program, Verification/Validation
- External audit activities including: External bodies (SQF, IMS, FDA, Customers, and Suppliers, etc.)
EDUCATION AND /OR EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in related field and 5 or more years of related experience in a manufacturing setting; or 10-12 years of progressively responsible related experience; or a combination of education and experience.
- SQF Practitioner training and experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills are essential.
- Experience with MS-Office is needed.
BENEFITS
- Health coverage that includes medical, dental and vision.
- Basic life insurance, disability, and wellness programs.
- Employee Savings Plan with employer match.
- Paid holidays and generous paid time off.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Career advancement opportunities.
EMPLOYEE PERKS
- Opportunity for community involvement.
- Family company, family culture.
- Safety shoe and glasses reimbursement.
- Generous referral program.
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