What you will enjoy doing
We are seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead, oversee and continually enhance our Quality functions. This is a senior level role responsible for driving Quality performance across the business, championing continuous improvement, and embedding robust quality processes throughout manufacturing operations. This role will have 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports.
1. Leading and developing the Quality Team, providing coaching, mentoring and support to ensure high performance and capability across QA and QC functions.
2. Driving continuous improvement of quality processes, systems, and tools, ensuring alignment with applicable standards such as ISO 9001 -FSSC 22000.
3. Overseeing the Integrated Management System, ensuring changes are communicated and embedded across relevant stakeholders.
4. Managing quality inspection activity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
5. Investigating Customer Complaints and NCRs, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
6. Leading internal audit programmes and participating in third-party and customer audits.
7. Conducting risk-based assessments (, FMEA) to identify and mitigate potential process failures.
8. Analysing Quality performance data, identifying trends, and recommending improvement actions.
9. Promoting collaboration, open communication and best practice sharing across the organisation.
10. Ensure robust corrective actions (RCA) are implemented, provide quality management training and support across the organisation.
11. Forms close working relationships with local and regional OPEX teams, regional Quality teams to ensure corporate systems and processes are embedded into daily work.
What makes you great
12. Strong background in a manufacturing environment ideally from a Plastics, Food or Pharmacutical background– this is essential and central to the role with a Blend of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience.
13. Proven leadership capability, including team management, coaching and mentoring
14. Experience managing and improving Quality Management Systems.
15. Experience in root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing tools, internal audits, and risk-based quality methodologies (, FMEA)
16. Degree Qualified in either a Science, Quality Management, or technical related degree.
17. Ideally you will hold or are working towards a lean six sigma qualification.
What you can expect working with us
Up to £75,000 dependant on experience
Benefits package; Generous pension contributions, Bonus, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen.
At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.
Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: -
18. Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more
19. A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees
20. Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists