MGR-QUALITY SYSTEMS

As a Fortune 500 company, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is an ideas and solutions company. Our corrugated packaging business seeks to be the leader in helping our customers - large and small - package, transport and display products of all kinds. Our white paper business delivers Paper With Purpose by providing the highest level of customer service and operational excellence. We have approximately 15,000 team members in more than 100 locations in the United States that strive to meet the local needs of our customers. Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers, today and tomorrow, with products and services that exceed expectations for performance and environmental responsibility.

People * Customers * Trust

Join a Team That Values Excellence, Inclusion, and Growth

At PCA New Oxford, we believe that quality is more than a standard-it's a mindset. We're looking for a passionate and driven Quality Manager to lead our commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence. You'll be joining a collaborative team that values diverse perspectives, supports one another, and celebrates shared success.

As part of PCA, you'll enjoy competitive benefits, a supportive work environment, and real opportunities for career advancement. Whether you're refining processes or mentoring team members, your impact will be felt across our organization and beyond.

If you're ready to grow with a company that invests in its people and prioritizes quality in everything we do, we'd love to meet you.

The Quality Systems Manager is responsible for quality and food safety programs within the plant to ensure production of a high-quality product to meet customer needs. The Quality Systems Manager provides recommendations following the result of product testing and root cause analysis for any incident report. As a member of the plant management team, the Quality Systems Manager is responsible for evaluating opportunities to improve overall plant performance and profitability.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Support and maintain a culture of "Continuous Improvement" across the plant by developing and implementing the plant's action plan to meet corporate and customer quality and food safety standards.

Collaborate with production teams to manage, maintain, and improve manufacturing quality and food safety systems including the shop floor data collection, customer quality reporting system, and the quality checklist system to ensure product and process quality.

Analyze production and incident data, conduct investigations as necessary, identify root cause, identify process improvement opportunities, and implement quality protocols.

Serve as the lead quality contact with customers to address customer concerns and interests and further strengthen the customer relationship. This includes maintaining knowledge of customer specific expectations and requirements, quality testing, interfacing with customer quality staff, responding to customer audits and information requests including providing letters of guarantee and/or certificates of audit, and assist plant management in translating customer satisfaction survey data into action plans.

Write programs and coordinate processes to maintain the plant's quality and food safety certification(s).

Provide timely and usable cost of quality, product/process quality data collection and analysis for all levels of the organization for improvement purposes. Measures include process capability, process control, pareto analysis, economic loss/improvement impact, etc.

Manage and maintain the plant's applicable product testing and ensure all quality Gauges Repeatability and Reproducibility (G R&R) measurement devises are properly calibrated and maintained

Document quality procedures and train supervisors and operators on quality processes.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's degree in business, science, statistics, or engineering required.

Five (5) years of previous experience in manufacturing operations.

Experience with food safety and managing food programs.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

Certified quality engineer.

Food safety certification such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP).

All qualified applicants must apply at Careers.packagingcorp.com to be considered.

PCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.