Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Job Description You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.This position is the site Quality Manager at a K-C facility that manufactures a regulated cosmetics product, Huggies baby wipes. The role provides technical leadership, consultation, coordination, and direction for facility quality control systems to ensure the manufacturing of formulated Wipes products meet required quality specifications and all applicable corporate and regulatory standards.

The scope of responsibility and influence includes Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management, Validation Management, and Sanitary Manufacturing requirements. This individual shall provide leadership for significant upgrades of the mill’s quality systems, infrastructure, and procedures.  The Quality Manager shall drive change to mindsets, behaviors, and capabilities to build an empowered Quality Culture throughout the mill, at all levels of the organization.  

He/she shall challenge the current methods in order to drive innovation and excellence within the Quality space.  This leader must demonstrate ability to mitigate risks and ensure that finished product quality meets FDA regulatory and corporate guidelines.

The Quality Manager is also responsible for providing direction and alignment for and building the capability and knowledge of the Quality department (18 – 22 team members), with 4-8 of those being direct reports.  The Quality team includes team leaders, technicians, Microbiologists, hygienists, and validation engineers. The Quality Manager must be able to work autonomously with minimal direction, while ensuring alignment and collaboration with the Staff quality teams to define and implement new strategies, per business unit objectives.

The supported infrastructure and systems include water purification systems, formulation batching/blending, eight (8)+ wet converting lines, three (3)+ raw material lines, air handling systems, and a microbiological laboratory. The incumbent reports to the Sr. Quality Manager – KCNA Baby & Child Care (BCC) and is a core member of the site Leadership  this role, you will:

Demonstrate safety as a value by performing all job functions safely, while also complying with corporate policies and departmental procedures, in an effort to reduce risk and eliminate loss.

Manages self and team in accordance with the expected K-C Leadership Behaviors. Effectively achieve results that meet business and individual objectives.

Drive change and inspire a team to reach new levels with regards to the Quality Culture and Program. Establish and maintain good customer rapport, while driving solutions to meet business needs. Develop and maintain a strong spirit of partnership.

Conduct all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity.

Communicate fully with superiors, teammates, and others who have a need to know.

Execute continuous improvement activities for established processes and initiates development of new processes.

Position-Specific Accountabilities:

Acts as the Quality Management Representative for the Maumelle Facility.

Ensures the facility maintains adequate systems, personnel, and infrastructure for Quality Assurance (including Microbiological Lab), Quality Engineering, and Supplier Quality Management, to support compliance and meeting organizational quality…