Description

Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is now hiring an experienced Quality Manager to join our team in San Leandro, CA. As a member of the plant leadership team, the Quality Manger partners with the operations and commercial teams to ensure we produce and deliver corrugated boxes that drive our goal to becoming the preferred partner of our customers.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific is one of the nation’s leading corrugated box manufacturers. Understanding your needs and providing creative and custom solutions makes Georgia-Pacific much more than a typical corrugated packaging supplier and partner. Choose Corrugated to help formulate your plan, streamline your operations, eliminate waste, elevate your product and supply the right materials for the job.

What You Will Do

• Foster a quality driven mindset and building a quality culture and capability in team members
• Drive sustainable quality processes and systems through application of management systems and a cadence of verification through yourself and operations leaders
• Build collaborative relationships with strategic customers to become their preferred partner
• Champion Product Safety/Quality certification programs
• Lead quality process improvements and driving to a zero-defect culture with use of technology and analytical tools
• Lead facility root cause and corrective action process, with a mindset for eliminating future defects, and providing timely resolution to customers
• Participate in regional teams to audit the processes of other facilities, warehouses, and co-manufacturers
• Assure supplier quality is meeting our needs to produce quality products
• Monitor and analyze quality performance in a way that informs leadership of the critical few opportunities to focus on, with recommended actions
• Lead initiatives with product stewardship and waste
• Part of and contributing to a global community of quality leaders to leverage knowledge and build a transformational quality system that achieves our vision
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated capability for managing quality and process improvements in a manufacturing or military environment
• Experience managing defects and maintaining customer relations through written and verbal communications
• Experience with managing third party audits and certifications of quality and product safety systems
• Ability to travel per needs of the business (estimated up to 25% of the time)
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor of Science in science related or technical discipline and/or Quality certification from a recognized industry organization
• Experience with Safe Quality Food (SQF), Brand Reputation through Compliance of Global Standards (BRCGS) and/or ISO
• Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Process Improvement or similar experience or certification
• Industry experience in Corrugated packaging and/or food and beverage
  

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000- $140,000per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. #LI-CH

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf