Manager, Supplier Quality (Audit)
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Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum 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:
As the Supplier Quality Manager, you're a key member of the Global Quality Team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Supplier Quality. You will contribute to the success of Ball by developing and implementing a supplier quality program. You will have responsibility for coordinating and maintaining overall quality metrics.
Your Key Areas of Responsibilities Include:
- Develop and conduct risk based auditing for suppliers to assure compliance to Quality and Food Safety and Regulatory requirements.
- Request and review supplier documentation (Supplier Questionnaires, CoC's, , Specifications, 3rd party certification documents).
- Lead and influence the supply base continuous improvement efforts.
- Partner with Engineering to develop material specifications.
- Partner with Procurement to establish supplier expectations (scorecard).
- Partner with suppliers to foster continuous improvement.
- Establish sampling and testing protocols for those raw materials that pose a risk to production.
- Development of manufacturing and testing equipment requirements for acceptance and approval.
- Implement and or strengthen programs used to identify, track, and resolve supplier nonconformance issues and clearly communicate expectations to such suppliers.
- Partner with production locations to determine root cause and implementation of corrective actions with suppliers.
- Partner with other functions to develop, enhance and maintain corporate and site quality measurements and critical analytical skills.
What Are We Looking For?
- Bachelor's Degree in Quality Assurance, Supplier Management, or other related discipline or 5-7 years of work related experience in continuous improvement in a manufacturing or food safety environment.
- Three (3)or more years experience doing quality assurance or quality management roles within manufacturing or food safety environments.
- Minimum of five (5) years experience supplier management, including evaluating supplier performance, conducting supplier audits, and fostering continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers.
- Minimum of 3 years experience leading and driving continuous improvement initiatives within manufacturing or food safety environments
- Communication: communication skills, communicate with diverse personnel of each region to confirm and train out best-practices.
- Leadership: leading projects using Lean/Continuous Improvement tools .
- Quality: Statistical Process Control (SPC) , characteristic classification assignment, FMEA, GR&R and other quality assurance elements.
- Knowledge of:
- ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000
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 aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles 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.
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