Quality & Process Improvement Lead - Aerosol Manufacturing

ITW Sexton; Decatur (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

PTO

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Bonus

Job summary

ITW seeks a Quality Manager for its Decatur, AL facility to build quality into production, analyze trends and drive improvements. You will partner with plant and department leaders to ensure safe, efficient operations and timely responses to customer quality concerns.

This role leads corrective and preventive actions, audits, PFMEA updates, and KPI reporting, coordinating with Manufacturing, Engineering and Management.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of quality engineer experience or equivalent required.
• Skilled in statistical analysis.
• Minitab experience preferred.
• Quality Engineer Certification is a plus.
• Prior experience in aerosol manufacturing environment highly preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully leading improvement projects by providing creative approaches to problem solving.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and influencing others without authority.
• High level of comfort when working in ambiguous situations, with the ability to gather pieces of information and summarize them into meaningful statements and/or instructions.
• Some travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage statistical based quality controls.
• Troubleshoot production processes to support improvement to existing manufacturing tooling, processes, methods, and procedures.
• Lead efforts to reduce and control manufacturing process defects by assisting the team on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
• Interface with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Management regarding quality monitoring, corrective action processes, quality improvement actions, and containment actions.
• Provide timely superior response, communication, and closure to customers in relation to quality concerns and issues.
• Provide periodic reports of quality issues, project updates and other valuable KPI's to the leadership team.
• Lead quality audit processes in addition to Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) efforts.
• Perform project-based work, as assigned, or directed, on improving quality and reducing scrap or defects.
• Update procedures, PFMEA, and control plans as necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned or directed.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Minitab

Process improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Job description

ITW seeks a Quality Manager for its Decatur, AL facility to build quality into production, analyze trends and drive improvements. You will partner with plant and department leaders to ensure safe, efficient operations and timely responses to customer quality concerns.

This role leads corrective and preventive actions, audits, PFMEA updates, and KPI reporting, coordinating with Manufacturing, Engineering and Management.