What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Quality Manager position at O-I?
Company Description
About O-I
Remember the last time you opened a bottle of champagne? A cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench your thirst? Well, it was probably made by us. We are O-I and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world.
O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Why do you want to apply? Our Lapel plant is a great location because you can experience the strong sense of community found in a small Midwestern town, while being less than an hour from Indianapolis and having access to everything that a major city has to offer.
Job Description
The Plant Quality Manager is responsible for managing and continuously improving all internal and external plant assurance of quality systems. They will work with plant management to develop the plant’s quality plan that will create and maintain a customer-focused organization.
The Plant Quality Manager should have:
- Experience developing and maintaining a Quality Management System.
- The ability to investigate customer complaints, prepare customer complaint responses, and maintain a database on all customer complaints.
- Experience working with a plant management team to develop standard operating procedures.
The Plant Quality Manager will:
- Work with plant management in setting and maintaining quality objectives, and assuring those objectives are being met.
- Establish customer relationships, make customer visits as appropriate, and assist in implementing customer quality management systems.
- Work directly with all departments on quality issues and on preventative and corrective actions.
- Facilitate problem solving activity through Total Quality Management (TQM), team building, and quality systems tools and methods.
- Work with the line and process supervisors in identifying negative quality trends and repetitive defects.
- Effectively communicate customer issues and perspectives to all plant personnel, including floor level, on a routine and timely basis.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent years of experience required
- Minimum of 2 years relevant experience with Total Quality Management in a manufacturing environment
- Strong communication and data analytics skills
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Experience in the glass industry is preferred
- Supervisory experience is preferred
- SAP experience is a plus
What we offer at O-I:
- Opportunity for future growth and advancement
- Generous award-winning 401(k) plan with employer contribution & match
- Comprehensive benefits package
- and much more…
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
O-I is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does 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. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact O-I at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.