Quality and Safety Manager - Greenville, SC

Summary

This hands-on, two-pronged role is responsible for the Quality and the Safety Departments of this facility with around 90 employees. This role requires being on-call, being active on the production floor, and managing relevant administrative duties.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Directs and runs Quality Management System
• Plans and presents weekly Safety Meetings
• Provides 24-hour on-call responses to all safety incidents such as employee injury or fire alarm
• Drives plant accountabilities in the areas of: tracking vendor performance, resolution and disposition of customer complaints, investigating critical quality defects on in-process and finished products, generation and analysis of quality data and reports
• Ensures all customer feedback is promptly dealt with and any complaints are acted upon by the plant using root cause analysis and implementing corrective action
• Supports safety as a top priority in training, job design, employee onboarding, and regulatory compliance
• Ensures product quality. Establishes and manages systems for "right first time" performance and incorporates this philosophy in the continuous improvement teams.
• Commit to overall safety of the plant and procedures.
• Perform strategic thinking and actively participate in plant and company processes.
• Build and retain a "customer focused" environment; including internal and external customers.
• Adhere to all plant Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), operating procedures (SOPs). Manage, drive and oversee continuous improvement programs.
• Communicate the needs of all quality and safety operations functions to the Production Manager and or Plant Manager and local Management team on an as needed basis.
• Develop and analyze new methods of reducing/avoiding costs, improving products and assuring a safe working environment.
• Investigate incidents, monitor medical care.
• Create and conduct new-hire safety orientation program.
• Monitor light duty program: develop jobs, communicate with physician/doctor, etc.
• Complete and maintain all paperwork with regards to work-related incidents.
• Assist Divisional Safety Manager in filing workers compensation insurance related information and obtaining quotes.
• Assist Divisional Safety Manager of purchasing safety equipment and systems.
• Maintain membership in applicable safety or environmental associations to stay informed of new developments and trends.
• Prepare legal notices, postings, and reports as required by government and regulatory bodies.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Additional duties as assigned by management.

Education and/or Experience

• Quality experience in manufacturing
• Safety experience in manufacturing
• Proven interpersonal communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to be detail-oriented

Candidates are PREFERRED who offer the following:

• Previous leadership experience in manufacturing
• Previous ISO certification
• Bilingual - English & Spanish a plus!

Necessary Skills

• Technical Skills
• Equipment design and capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation.
• Cost issues in order to make daily decisions that will reduce overall costs and will help the supervisor find areas that require improvement.
• Quality standards.
• Regulatory requirements including but not limited to wage and hour requirements, environmental and waste minimization, company policies, and personnel requirements including OSHA, DEQ and EEO.
• Leadership Skills
• Crisis management
• Teaching, training, and coaching
• Interpersonal communication
• Employee relations
• Mathematical Skills
• Able to read a tape measure with speed and accuracy.
• Able to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, measurement, volume and rate.
• Able to apply concepts of high school math.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
• May be required to maintain a current Lift Truck Operator License and/or other appropriate certification to work in certain areas or on certain equipment

Physical Demands

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Pratt Industries is America's 5th largest paper and packaging company with more than 6,500 highly skilled employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt Industries is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in America, with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than a dozen states. The company operates three of the most modern, cost effective paper mills in the country, as well as a series of sheet and box plants strategically placed throughout the United States offering a wide range of creative packaging solutions. Pratt Industries is committed to recycling and the environment by "harvesting the urban forest."