Quality Assurance Manager - Packaging

• Supervise and develop QA personnel across two facilities, right next door to eachother.
• Schedule QA coverage based on production needs, customer requirements, workload, and risk.
• Coordinate incoming, setup, in-process, final, and fulfillment inspections.
• Ensure inspections meet approved procedures, specifications, samples, standards, and customer requirements.
• Monitor production and fulfillment quality, inspection results, and product release.
• Coordinate containment, investigation, sorting, and disposition of nonconforming product.
• Initiate and support nonconformance, CAPA, and customer complaint investigations.
• Maintain compliance with the ISO 9001 QMS, procedures, work instructions, and document controls.
• Ensure accurate use of QT9 for inspections, quality records, CAPA, training, and related activities.
• Identify quality risks, process gaps, and opportunities for corrective and continuous improvement.
• Train and qualify QA personnel and support quality training across Operations and fulfillment.
• Communicate quality risks, holds, priorities, staffing needs, and significant issues to leadership.
• Support audits, Gemba walks, 7S activities, production meetings, and management reviews.
• Ensure compliance with safety, security, material control, line clearance, and product-security requirements.
• Oversee fulfillment and shipment quality, including component control, labeling, quantities, assembly, palletization, and transfers between facilities.

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Opportunity to join a growing quality team!Meaningful work supporting customer brands you see everyday!

• H.S Diploma required, college degree preferred
• Quality experience in a product manufacturing environment
• 3-5+ years of ISO9001 experience (Audits, compliance, etc)
• 2+ years of leading and supervising quality personnel (Techs, inspectors, etc)
• Experience working with an electronic QMS
• Experience with CAPA, Inspections, Non-conformance reporting, Root cause analysis
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
• Six Sigma a plus
• Quality certifications a plus
• Packaging experience preferred

Our client is a premium, vertically integrated custom packaging and commercial printing company is headquartered in the Morton Grove, IL Area.
Founded in the 1950, our client has evolved into a major national packaging supplier backed by regular investment from their ownership group. They are highly regarded for its structural innovation, even winning awards that top packaging manufactures strive for.

• Salary up to around 80,000 depending on experience and interviews
• 2 weeks PTO, additional sick time
• BCBS medical coverage
• Dental/Vision coverage
• 4% 401k match
• More!