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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.
We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.
Job Summary
Plans, coordinates, and directs quality assurance program designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards by performing the following duties personally and through subordinates.
Essential Functions
- Monitors the safety environment of the workplace and acts to eliminated unsafe conditions, practices, equipment, and personnel.
- Enforces GMPs and all company policies and procedures.
- Coordinates AIB and GMP programs and procedures.
- Creates, reviews, and maintains the HACCP documents.
- Administers and maintains centralized document control for all departments with annual reviews.
- Supervises Quality Assurance personnel and conducts performance reviews on those individuals.
- Generates product specifications utilizing input from T&D and statistical data gathered from samples of production generated product.
- Creates and implements inspection methods, procedures, and work instructions, providing feedback to Production personnel as needed.
- Interprets quality control philosophy to personnel within the organization
- Applies total quality management tools and approaches to analytical and reporting process within each department
- Participate in quality management teams within the organization.
- Design and implement quality control training programs for key personnel.
- Investigate and address customer complaints regarding quality.
- Lead quality related improvements by being the quality pillar leader in out WCO structure
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field required
- Prior supervision experience highly preferred
- Knowledge of gauge R&R, ISO, HACCP, and SPC.
- Knowledge of World Class Operations pillar structure of continuous improvements a plus.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical documents and procedures.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively communicate and present information to all levels of the organization.
- Must possess good inter-personal skills.
- Able to work efficiently in a team environment
- Ability to identify and define problems involving several concrete variables in a standardized situation.
- Ability to research information, collect and analyze data, draw valid conclusions, and make recommendations and plans of action.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Physical Requirements: prolonged sitting (50%) with frequent standing/walking (50%). Rarely lift 30 pounds with no assistance and heavier weights with assistance. Rarely pull/push 1000 lbs with a manual pallet jack. Occasionally bend, kneel, stoop, squat, and crouch. Regularly reach above, at, below, and to the side, while twisting body and twisting at waist. Climb stairs and ladders on an occasional basis. Rarely, work on platforms at various heights. Grip small pieces/parts. Twist hands at wrist while gripping and/or carrying item.
- While in production areas, the employee must wear PPE, follow GMP's, be trained in knife safety.
- Ability to travel to vendors, customers and other Huhtamaki locations via air and ground transportation.
Environment
- Incumbent works in an office/manufacturing environment and will use the following equipment: computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine, and copy machine.
- While performing the duties of this job the employee will work in an office environment as well as a manufacturing environment with above normal heat conditions, flashing lights, noise levels exceeding 90 decibels, sirens and horns, powered moving equipment passing nearby, light dust in the air, moving mechanical parts, hazardous chemicals.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts.
- Employee must be able to work various hours and various shifts which may include workdays over eight hours and/or weekends
Join us to shape the future together!
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030.
We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com