Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life.

For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here.

At Graham, we are united by a clear vision. We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Quality Improvement Managers are responsible for analyzing current and potential opportunities and leading improvement initiatives within the plant's quality programs and processes for all containers working through the plant quality, production, and logistics personnel. As a member of
the Plant’s management team the Quality Improvement Manager also has shared responsibility for overall Plant operations, especially safety and efficiency. Primary duties of a Quality Manager include:

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Drive Quality training initiatives across the plant as well responsible for developing a quality culture and improvement.
• Use observation, questioning and data measurement to fully understand and categorize current quality issues.
• Develop a detailed root cause analysis for each problem, where each root cause is validated through testing, i.e. the condition or defect can be turned on or off.
• Identify and eliminate sources of variation that lead to changes to the Standard Operating Condition (SOC).
• Perform data analysis and prepare written reports in order make visible the true nature of problems and opportunities.
• Facilitate problem solving to root cause elimination and permanent reduction of variance.
• Lead Problem Solving and/or Kaizen events by leveraging/modeling the DMAIC process.
• Develop countermeasures that could range from basic problem containment to system repair to equipment replacement.
• Lead Daily Management processes to validate that actions lead to desired performance improvements.
• Partner with third party suppliers to perform equipment or system assessments and support quality systems
• Support deployment of Lean tools such as 5S, Visual Factory Aids, etc. to improve plant quality performance.
• Proactively seek problems that need to be solved and quantify the anticipated benefit of solving each particular problem.
• Follow through to assess and report on achieving desired improvements.
• Develop and ensure appropriate standard work and/or training tools or documentation is developed and in place to minimize problem reoccurrence.
• May be responsible for special projects related to other functional areas.
• Other duties as assigned
• 0-25% travel may be required..

A Bachelor’s Degree and/or related quality experience; or equivalent combination of education and related quality experience is required. A minimum of five years’ experience in a quality supervisory or management role in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated leadership skills strongly preferred.

 

Quality Improvement Managers are required to interact with other managers, employees, vendors, and customers. Therefore, the following skills and proficiencies are also essential requirements of the position: 
• Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
• Computer usage and typing skills are essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
• Communicates effectively: conveys facts and information clearly both verbally and orally.
• Collaborates well with others: proactively contributes to group objectives; volunteers to help others.

The expected salary range for the position described in this posting is made in accordance with the legal mandates of certain jurisdictions within the United States. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on individual qualifications and experience.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in the company’s 401K Employee Saving Plan and may participate in its Employee Wellness Program. Employees will also receive paid time off in accordance with company policy and state law requirements.

Graham Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.