Quality Manager

Your Job

The Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group is looking for a Quality Manager at our facility located in Lexington, Kentucky. As a key member of the team, the Quality Manager works with operations to meet the facility production goals focused on ensuring the site produces Quality right first-time products, on time, meeting our customers’ needs and ensuring GP is the preferred partner. 

Quality oversight includes assisting with development and commercialization trials, and ensuring acceptance criteria are met, managing, measuring, and monitoring quality metrics for daily operations per the facility Quality Control Plan and meeting or exceeding our customers’ expectations.  This position assures that site operations meet regulatory and compliance requirements for Safe Quality Food (SQF), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and internal processes (procedures and policies).

Our business is expanding, and we are looking for candidates who want to join our team and create long term value. We seek those who have the courage to challenge the status quo, and who want to find fulfillment in what they do.

Our Team

If you have a passion for learning, collaboration and applying your skills to ensure that product quality is not only maintained, but also continually improving- we’d like to learn more about you!

The Lexington Plant is part of the Dixie® brand cups and lids paper products manufacturing operation. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace. We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people.  Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Lexington community. 

What You Will Do

• Foster a culture of transformation and continuous improvement, building a quality culture and capability in the organization.
• Drive sustainable quality processes and systems through application of management systems and a cadence of verification through self and with operations leaders.
• Provide leadership and coaching to employees through a shared Quality vision for the operation.
• Apply Operational Excellence Strategy and Principled Based Management® (PBM®) Principles for managing continuous improvement of Quality Systems and Processes.
• Work with Operations and corporate capabilities to better align the Voice of the Customer (VOC) with the Voice of the Process (VOP).
• Be a Champion for Product Safety and Quality certification programs.
• Oversee and implement Production and Commercialization trials within the facility, ensure acceptance criteria is established and approved.
• Conduct quality reviews with product systems and track performance against key action plans.
• Build collaborative relationships with strategic customers.
• Lead and facilitate the root cause and corrective action process, with a mindset of eliminating future defects, and providing timely resolution to customer inquiries. 
• Assure supplier quality is meeting our needs to produce quality products.
• Use statistical methods to track, monitor, and report quality performance in a way that informs leadership of the critical few opportunities to work on, with recommended actions.
• Collaborate with other GP quality leaders to leverage knowledge and build a transformational quality system that achieves our vision.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience driving measurable improvement in product and/or process quality in a manufacturing environment
• Experience leading a team.
• Knowledge and use of statistical tools for data analysis to monitor quality performance.
• Experience with executing quality processes including change management, CAPA/RCA, and continuous improvement.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Three (3) or more years’ experience working in manufacturing environment in a Quality assurance role
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Technical Discipline 
• Paper manufacturing or related industry experience 
• Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or similar experience or certification  
• Demonstrated capability to lead sustainable change.
• HACCP Experience
• Quality certifications from a recognized industry organization
• Demonstrated experience with Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), SQF preferred certifications and proven track record for related program management and implementation.

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