Plant Quality Manager

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe! Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position Overview

The Quality Manager is responsible for setting and maintaining excellent standards of quality for the plant. You’ll ensure the plant achieves Ball’s quality goals through the installation and maintenance of effective manufacturing systems and through leadership, motivation and support of all plant personnel.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Ensure safe working practices are followed at all times and to support improvements to safety, staff welfare and environmental impacts.
• Ensure that all quality standards are met though management of people and systems, both direct and indirect report.
• Drive the continuous improvement of quality, customer service and costs.
• Manage the department’s resources to meet the budget and the requirements of the production schedule.
• Lead and influence other departments to ensure that quality matters are fully supported.
• Manage the performance and development of department staff, including identifying training needs, coaching and promoting teamwork.
• Maintain ISO9001, FSSC 22000, and all other relevant quality and food safety management system standards. Manage the auditing process with the external auditors and internal process controllers around the relevant standards.
• Support the maintenance of the ISO 14001 and 45001 systems, ASI and Sedex.
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

• Previous experience in a Quality-related role in a manufacturing facility, within a multinational, matrix organisation.
• Degree-qualified or with sufficient experience and qualifications
• Experienced in internal an external auditing processes (system and process audits)
• In depth knowledge of ISO 9001, 22000 FSSC (Food Safety), and GMP/Lean Manufacturing principles
• Fluency in written and spoken English
  
  
  

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.