Site Quality Manager

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world’s top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Jabil has an exciting opportunity for a Site Quality Manager to lead manufacturing quality activities and systems at our injection molding site in Gurnee, IL
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How will you make an impact?

In this role, you will drive continuous improvement through the development and implementation of Quality processes, systems, tools and techniques for the entire manufacturing site. Provide exceptional support to customers, team members, and shareholders.

• Recruit, interview and hire Quality Engineers, and other resources within the Quality department.
• Communicate criteria to recruiters for Quality Engineers, and other resources within the Quality department.
• Coach Quality Engineers in the interviewing/hiring process.
• Monitor team member turnover: identify key factors that can be improved; make improvements.

• Identify individual and team strengths and development needs on an ongoing basis.
• Create and/or validate training curriculum in area of responsibility.
• Coach and mentor Quality Engineering staff to deliver excellence to every internal and external customer.
• Create and manage succession plans for Quality function.

• Establish clear measurable goals and objectives by which to determine individual and team results (i.e., operational metrics, results against project timelines, training documentation, attendance records, knowledge of operational roles and responsibilities, personal development goals).
• Solicit ongoing feedback from Workcell Manager (WCM), Business Unit Manager (BUM), peers and team members on team member’s contribution to the Workcell team.
• Provide ongoing coaching and counseling to team members based on feedback.
• Express pride in staff and encourage them to feel good about their accomplishments.
• Perform team member evaluations professionally and on time.
• Drive individuals and the team to continuously improve in key operational metrics and the achievement of the organizational goals.
• Coordinate activities of large teams and keep them focused in times of crises.
• Ensure recognition and rewards are managed fairly and consistently in area of responsibility.

• Provide weekly communication forum for the exchange of ideas and information with the department.
• Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style.
• Ask questions; encourage input from staff.
• Assess communication style of individual team members and adapt own communication style accordingly.

• Know, understand and lead strategic directions.
• Define, develop and implement a Quality strategy which contributes to the site’s strategic directions.
• Develop an understanding of the workcell business strategy as it pertains to Quality.
• Provide regular updates to BUM, WCM, and Operations Manager on the execution of the strategy.

• Identify creative ways to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e., modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value-added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
• Utilize tools to monitor departmental cost and cost trends, striving continuously to improve value.
• Provide feedback to peers (BUMs, WCMs, Functional Managers (FMs) on cost and cost trends.

• Prepare timely forecasts for the department.
• Compare forward forecast results to historical actual results for trend assessment and analysis.

• Drive continuous improvement through…