Quality Manager

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. 

The Plant Quality Manager, while reporting to the Market/Regional Quality Manager, is responsible for providing overall quality leadership to this plant, maintaining, and improving the quality systems as prescribed by the plant’s division or by the corporate standards. Duties include management of change

control, data collection applications, test methods & testing equipment, standard instructions, audits, manuals, and other routine quality system areas. In addition, Plant Quality Managers must serve as the point of contact with customers when product or service quality exceptions occur.

What you will 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, data collection, and process controls.

• Generate scorecards and reports for all aspects of plant quality, not limited to and including VOC, CARs, SCARs, COAs, SPC reporting, losses, product safety, internal, third party & customer audits, and change control processes.

• 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.

• Act as the lead plant representative for any meetings or interactions with customers as it relates to product or service quality.

• Participate on teams and lead efforts towards continuous quality improvement initiatives within the plant.

• Identify, define, and promote awareness of customer requirements for the plant.

• Responsible for managing all change control activities, performing line validations as major changes occur or new products are introduced.

•  Ensure quality records are maintained

We'd love to hear from you if:

• 4-year degree; 3-5 years of experience as a Quality Manager in a manufacturing environment.

• Solid Problem-Solving skills

• Analytical skills and statistical analysis proficiency

• Experience as a leader of project teams

• Strong verbal & written communication skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint)

• Statistical Software (i.e. Minitab)

• Six Sigma Green Belt certified is preferred

• Quality Management Systems experience with ISO9001 a plus

Compensation: 

• The annual base salary range for this role is from $80,320 to $90,360, plus quarterly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary. 

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.