Plant Quality Manager

Requisition Number: 71504

 

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• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
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• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

 

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.

 

Department Management Responsibilities

• Assure growth in talent and capability of quality staff, including self.
• Oversee functional responsibilities in Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and/or Quality Systems.
• Build an effective network including Engineering, Operati