Quality Control Manager

Lead quality excellence in a thriving, safe community!  Are you ready to take the next step in your career as a Quality Control Manager?  Join a successful and growing company in South Bend, IN – a welcoming and safe community just two hours from Chicago.  Lead a team of up to 12, drive ISO certifications, and ensure product quality in a dynamic environment with opportunities for innovation and collaboration.  With a competitive salary (95K-110K), up to 20% bonus, and relocation support, this role offers a unique chance to grow professionally while enjoying a great quality of life.

Major Responsibilities:

• Establish and supervise standards for the Quality Control staff which will ensure that products released for shipment to a customer are in specification and in statistical control (where applicable)
• Work with the Production staff – in constructive manner – to resolve and correct production techniques or practices which result in quality problems and/or decreased productivity
• Interact with the Research & Development staff, on behalf of the Manufacturing group, to ensure that (i) new formulations are within the capabilities of the Production staff and (ii) problem formulations not correctable by improved production techniques are quickly resolved by the R&D staff
• Work with the Corporate Statistical Process and Statistical Quality Control Coordinator (SPC/SQC) to implement an effective program among the Quality Control personnel and, eventually, the Production and Maintenance personnel
• Supervise activities which will ensure that all data generated in the manufacturing of finished products are accurate and are entered into the computer system in a timely fashion
• Review all base resin quality and yield analysis for accuracy and ensure that this information is accurate and is entered into the computer in a timely fashion
• Participate in the plant’s efforts to decrease the level of mixed resins in inventory in the following ways:
  • Develop programs to ensure that manufacturing techniques do not allow errors which result in down-grading of good product to odd lot; and
  • Participate in the current program to aggressively work off mixed resin in the selected blend resin
• Ensure that lab equipment is properly maintained and, in cooperation with both the R&D group and the Maintenance staff, ensure that a calibration schedule is maintained on all plant scales
• Keep the Plant Manager informed of any obstacles which prevent achievement of the above goals
• Punctuality and regularity of attendance are job requirements

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Malia Nummerdor at mnummerdor@cps4jobs.com.

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Salary

$95,000 - $110,000

Required:

• Bachelor’s in chemistry or related field or equivalent
• 3-5 years previous experience in quality control
• 3-5 years manufacturing experience in chemical plant environment or related
• Familiarity of ISO programs

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Malia Nummerdor at mnummerdor@cps4jobs.com.

JO:  322.24MN
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