Quality Leader

Spectrum Plastics Group; Pleasant Prairie (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont PPC in Pleasant Prairie, WI seeks a Quality Leader to drive the site quality program and sustain ISO 9001 and food-safety requirements. You will lead the quality organization across blown-film extrusion and converting operations, ensuring regulatory and customer standards are met.

The role emphasizes leadership, CAPA, and continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to reduce defects and improve first-pass yield.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or related fields; regulated packaging preferred.
• 2 years of direct people leadership experience.
• Experience leading ISO-based quality management systems and audits.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, GMPs, CAPA, and quality‑engineering methods.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, gauge R&R, SPC, and process capability.

Responsibilities

• Embrace and role model DuPont Core Values; foster a quality-first culture.
• Lead, develop, and retain the Quality team with clear performance expectations.
• Own, maintain, and improve the Quality Management System and ISO/FSSC compliance.
• Establish quality goals, monitor metrics, CAPA effectiveness, and process capability.
• Lead internal and external audits; close findings effectively to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with Operations and Engineering to maintain controls for blown-film extrusion and converting.
• Drive continuous quality improvement using lean, Six Sigma, 5 Why, A3, 8D, root-cause analysis, and CAPA.
• Support new products, supplier quality, traceability, and food-safety readiness.

Skills

Quality leadership

Auditing

Lean Six Sigma

CAPA management

Statistical methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related

ISO 9001 Lead Auditor

CMQ/OE or CQE certification

Lean Six Sigma certification

Tools

PFMEA

MSA

SPC

Gauge R&R

Job description

Job Details

Location: PPC - Pleasant Prairie - Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158

Position Type: Full Time

At DuPont, we are working on things that matter, whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world.

DuPont™ PPC™—located in the Greater Chicago/Milwaukee region—is our flagship packaging manufacturing facility. Operating 35 extrusion lines around the clock, the site produces commodity plastic bags, converted pouches and bags, as well as monolayer and coextruded films.

If you would like to be a part of a premier multi-industrial company that is delivering sustainable solutions that bring real purpose and value, of a company with collaborative spirit because it believes that we work best when we work together as a team and values the diversity of thought, then DuPont is the company for you!

WHY JOIN US?

Our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter!

Have the Opportunity to chart your own course, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career. We reward employees with competitive pay and incentives to recognize skills, competencies, and contributions to business results.

Get to Experience a collaborative environment where teamwork is celebrated with flexibility that enhances balance and an inclusive atmosphere that is welcoming to all!

Get to know our Purpose and make it yours by bringing innovations to market that improve the world, share a commitment to sustainability that makes our planet better and give back to communities in which we work and live.

Our Operations team is essential to delivering the innovative and life-saving products we make for our customers. We depend on our team members to actively engage in continuously improving our operations while we provide the growth and development to help them build their skills and career. Operational Excellence in our workplace unleashes the energy, creativity and collaboration – along with our tools, technology and training – that enables our people to perform at their best.

PPC Quality Leader is an experienced leadership role that ensures PPC’s blown-film extrusion and converting operations consistently meet customer, regulatory, food-safety, medical-packaging, and DuPont quality requirements. The Quality Leader leads the site Quality organization; owns and continuously improves the Quality Management System; sustains ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, and applicable food-contact requirements; and partners with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, Commercial, and site leadership to prevent defects, resolve customer concerns, reduce variation, and build a culture of quality ownership.

Your key responsibilities:

• Embraces and role models DuPont Core Values; cultivates a quality-first culture in which safety, compliance, product integrity, customer needs, and continuous improvement guide daily decisions.
• Leads, develops, and retains the Quality team; establishes clear performance expectations, builds technical and leadership capability, provides regular coaching and feedback, and promotes an inclusive workplace.
• Owns, maintains, and improves the site Quality Management System, including compliance with ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, applicable food-contact and medical-packaging requirements, customer specifications, and DuPont standards.
• Establishes and communicates challenging quality goals, metrics, and outcomes; monitors customer complaints, nonconformances, audit findings, CAPA effectiveness, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, and process capability to prioritize improvement activity.
• Leads internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; ensures site readiness, timely closure of findings, effective corrective and preventive actions, and verification that actions prevent recurrence.
• Partners with Operations and Engineering to maintain robust controls for blown-film extrusion and converting, including product specifications, process flow maps, PFMEAs, control plans, sampling plans, SPC, MSA, gauge R&R, and calibrated test equipment.
• Drives continuous quality improvement using lean, Six Sigma, 5 Why, A3, 8D, root-cause analysis, and CAPA; leads cross-functional efforts that eliminate recurring defects, reduce process variation, and improve customer performance.
• Collaborates across functions to support new products, customer qualification, supplier quality, raw-material and process changes, traceability, product disposition, cleanroom controls, and food-safety readiness.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Quality Systems, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, or Continuous Improvement; flexible packaging, blown-film extrusion, converting, food packaging, medical packaging, medical devices, or another regulated industry preferred.
• 2 years of direct people leadership experience or demonstrated leadership of cross-functional quality and continuous‑improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading or substantially supporting an ISO-based Quality Management System, including third-party registrar and customer audit preparation, hosting, response, and closure.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001, FSSC 22000 or similar food‑safety systems, GMPs, CAPA, quality‑engineering methods, and customer‑specific requirements.
• Experienced lean or Six Sigma practitioner with demonstrated results using APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, gauge R&R, SPC, process capability, and structured problem‑solving methods.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Quality, or related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant manufacturing experience considered.
• ISO 9001 and/or relevant Lead Auditor certification.
• ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), or comparable certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.