Quality Manager

About the Opportunity

Join Ecolab in Glenwood, IL as our Quality Manager, reporting to the Plant Manager, managing a team of 6 Quality and Engineering professionals and the Progressive Quality pillar of TPM.  Your influence will extend to divisional business leaders, global Supply Chain functional leaders, and peers. We are looking for a change agent with the passion to drive change and initiate projects to continuously improve and develop processes in safety, manufacturing, quality, and distribution while leading a culture shift throughout the plant to gain heightened employee engagement.

Gain recognition as someone with strong communication skills and the ability to effectively work with the plant’s leadership staff to deliver results and make key engineering related strategic business decisions. 

Location Information:  This role will be at our equipment plant located at 19421 South Forest Ave., Glenwood, IL 60425. The Glenwood equipment site is a 60,000 square foot equipment operation that employs 32 employees. Workers remanufacture commercial dish machines. Products meet UL and NSF certification requirements.  

Main Responsibilities

• Maintains all engineering specifications, bills of materials, and job routings for the plant in accordance with UL and NSF certifications. Is responsible for product cost estimating, and processing of engineering changes.  Supports qualification and rating of raw material, packaging material, and finished goods vendors. Ensures raw materials, packaging materials, finished goods, and distribution activities have and meet specifications. Develops validation requirement for new equipment/tools installation.
• Leads development and future maintenance of ISO 9001 compliance at the plant: owns the Internal and External Audit Program, CAPA and Calibration Services; creates and maintain work instructions, visual instruction booklets and process picture maps; sets up and administers audit system for internal and external providers of products. Collects and reports on Customer Quality indicators; and drives complaints and other quality indicators results. Improves product quality using advanced quality tools e.g. SPC, FEMA, & Process Control to monitor and improve quality at the assembly station, rather than downstream.
• Collaborates cross functionally in the development of new product offerings, contributing to the design and engineering of water pre-treatment and onsite generation equipment to ensure manufacturability of products. Ensures continued adherence to safety, quality, cost, and productivity standards. Coordinates the transition of new products from design to production with Corporate Engineering, Planning, Production, Purchasing, and Marketing.
• Promotes the generation of and implements ideas for projects that improve quality indicators, processes and systems in line with customer, cost, investment and service goals or to identify the root causes of quality/engineering issues and to implement processes to resolve and prevent issues. Leads and participates in projects to improve new and existing workflow processes, to identify and implement cost savings opportunities, and to dispose of obsolete products.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Math, Technology or related field
• 5-7 years Quality Systems experience and experience managing quality improvement projects
• 4 plus years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain and/or RD&E with increasing levels of responsibility including supervisory experience
• Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an assembly/component manufacturing industry e.g. automobile, appliance, or HVAC
• Demonstrated experience in Progressive Quality and Total Production Management (TPM), Toyota Production Systems, and Lean
• Six Sigma Certification
• Experience in an ISO 9001 registered or GMP/regulated facility
• Experience using statistical process control to monitor and improve quality
• Experience with creating and maintaining bills of materials and documentation packages

The base salary range for this position is $104,700.00 - $157,100.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits. 

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