Quality Assurance Manager - Packaging

Morton Grove, Illinois Permanent USD75,000 - USD82,000 per year View Job Description
This is an excellent opportunity to play a key leadership role in driving Quality Assurance initiatives for a well-established and growing manufacturer of packaging and printing products. The successful candidate will oversee a team of inspectors and lead all daily quality assurance activities to ensure product quality, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. Apply today!
  • Opportunity to join a growing quality team!
  • Meaningful work supporting customer brands you see everyday!

About Our Client

Our client is a premier, vertically integrated provider of custom packaging and commercial printing solutions headquartered in the Morton Grove, Illinois area. Since its founding in the 1950s, the company has grown into a leading national packaging supplier, supported by ongoing investment from its ownership group. Known for its commitment to structural innovation, the organization has earned industry recognition and awards for its cutting-edge packaging designs.

Job Description

  • Supervise and develop QA personnel across two facilities, right next door to eachother.
  • Schedule QA coverage based on production needs, customer requirements, workload, and risk.
  • Coordinate incoming, setup, in-process, final, and fulfillment inspections.
  • Ensure inspections meet approved procedures, specifications, samples, standards, and customer requirements.
  • Monitor production and fulfillment quality, inspection results, and product release.
  • Coordinate containment, investigation, sorting, and disposition of nonconforming product.
  • Initiate and support nonconformance, CAPA, and customer complaint investigations.
  • Maintain compliance with the ISO 9001 QMS, procedures, work instructions, and document controls.
  • Ensure accurate use of QT9 for inspections, quality records, CAPA, training, and related activities.
  • Identify quality risks, process gaps, and opportunities for corrective and continuous improvement.
  • Train and qualify QA personnel and support quality training across Operations and fulfillment.
  • Communicate quality risks, holds, priorities, staffing needs, and significant issues to leadership.
  • Support audits, Gemba walks, 7S activities, production meetings, and management reviews.
  • Ensure compliance with safety, security, material control, line clearance, and product-security requirements.
  • Oversee fulfillment and shipment quality, including component control, labeling, quantities, assembly, palletization, and transfers between facilities.



MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

  • H.S Diploma required, college degree preferred
  • Quality experience in a product manufacturing environment
  • 3-5+ years of ISO9001 experience (Audits, compliance, etc)
  • 2+ years of leading and supervising quality personnel (Techs, inspectors, etc)
  • Experience working with an electronic QMS
  • Experience with CAPA, Inspections, Non-conformance reporting, Root cause analysis
  • Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
  • Six Sigma a plus
  • Quality certifications a plus
  • Packaging experience preferred

What's on Offer

  • Salary up to around 80,000 depending on experience and interviews
  • 2 weeks PTO, additional sick time
  • BCBS medical coverage
  • Dental/Vision coverage
  • 4% 401k match
  • More!
Contact
Collin Patrick Walsh
Quote job ref
JN-092026-7107585

Job summary

Sector
Engineering & Manufacturing
Sub Sector
Quality, Technical
Industry
Industrial / Manufacturing
Where
Morton Grove
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Collin Patrick Walsh
Job Reference
JN-092026-7107585
 

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