Plant Quality Manager

Role Purpose

The Plant Quality Manager leads the development of a strong quality culture across the plant, ensuring product integrity, regulatory compliance, and alignment with AMPS standards. This role drives continuous improvement in product and service quality using robust systems, Lean and DMAIC methodologies, and key performance metrics. As a member of the Plant Staff, the PQM also shares responsibility for overall plant performance in quality, safety, service, and continuous improvement, while providing leadership and coaching to the quality team.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, communicate, and execute the quality strategy and roadmap, which support the manufacturing strategy for the location and the corporate direction for quality.
• Champion the product quality architecture necessary to prevent and detect quality issues for purchased materials and manufactured goods for the plant. Defined requirements will include form, fit, function, operational safety, and regulatory compliance of the product, packaging, labeling, and any published documentation of the product.
• Implement and refine built-in quality control plans and develop control strategies to make sure product achieves quality targets and applying error-proofing techniques.
• Champion performance excellence methods to ensure continuous improvement is evident from product concept to delivery.
• Provide coaching and/or facilitation of methods and tools for establishment of metrics.
• Provide leadership for quality management systems to ensure systems are effective and aligned with all customer expectations, corporate requirements, industry specific standards, regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Handle expectations for validation of new products and processes or validation of changes to existing products and processes as it may affect form, fit, function, or regulatory compliance.
• Ensure that suppliers provide the highest quality materials that are ready for use.
• Coordinate and lead plant audits as appropriate and represent the plant in a professional manner to customers.
• Report on quality department metrics to plant and business leadership and lead roadmaps for implementation/improvement of key elements.
• As a member of the Plant Staff, you will work towards great outcomes for everyone, including solutions both within manufacturing and collaboratively across key functional groups, Commercial, Technology, and Engineering.

Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s degree required,
• 6+ years in a manufacturing environment with experience in PCPD, utilizing quality systems, and data analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively lead a diverse group of people and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to demonstrate successful supervisory skills in a manufacturing environment.
• Progressive responsibilities in leadership, including quality, operations or engineering department supervisor experience,
• Experience in leading teams and departments in meeting continuous improvement goals, step change performance improvements, innovation, expanding technical capability, work redesign or other change efforts.
• Experience coordinating activities within functional responsibility and collaborating with other groups to achieve results.
• Experience with data collection and data analysis software and techniques, including Excel, MiniTab, Pi, Access, etc.

Required Skills

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven experience in equipment engineering, design, and/or maintenance.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant industry standards and regulations.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Project management experience.
• Budget management experience.