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Quality Manager

Company:  Ball Corporation
Location: 

Lummen, BE, 3560

Date:  18 Mar 2025
Job Category:  Quality/ Continuous Improvement
Req ID:  42165

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position overview: 

 

The Quality Manager will be responsible for managing the plant quality assurance function as directed.

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

  • Maintaining a safe and secure work environment which includes correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating monthly safety meetings, performing monthly safety inspections, and investigating accidents as required
  • Supporting development, implementation, maintenance and ongoing improvement of all relevant safety systems and directing and coordinating the activities of the quality assurance function as directed
  • Establishing and maintaining quality assurance standard procedures, methods, facilities and equipment to meet customer requirements and a customer relationship program in plant matters relating to quality
  • Directing and implementing quality trainings and development programs
  • Establishing and analyzing quality areas, including quality goals, quality problems, defect materials, customer complaints on quality problem
  • Working with material supplier on quality issues and cost reductions and performing leaker awareness training at the customer level
  • Administers customer and vendor claim reimbursement systems
  • Ensuring that the organization’s Quality Management System conforms to customer, internal, ISO 9001, and regulatory/legal requirements
  • Ensuring evaluation of, and reporting on, vendor quality systems and overseeing inspection (examination) of incoming materials, ensuring that they meet requirements.
  • Managing the monitoring, measurement, and review of internal processes, especially those that affect the quality of the organization’s products.
  • Leading a team of Quality engineers, inspectors, auditors, analysts, and technicians

 

What are we looking for? 

 

  • Degree in Technical Discipline
  • Additional qualification in ISO, QMS, 6 Sigma is desirable 
  • A manufacturing background in a high speed, high volume continuous process
  • Understanding and experience of working to External Quality/Environmental Standards i.e. ISO 9001:2000 / 14001
  • Good understanding of modern lean manufacture technique - SMED, Kaizen 5S, Kanban, Structured Problem Solving, TPM/OEE, SPC, 6 Sigma etc.
  • Computer literate (Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint) 
  • Fluent in English

 

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.


Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
 

No agencies please.

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