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Saint-Gobain Quality Manager in NASHVILLE, Arkansas
Quality Manager – Drive Excellence, Lead Impact
Are you ready to lead quality at a plant that never settles for “good enough”? As Quality Manager in Nashville, AR , you’ll ensure every product meets the highest standards while driving efficiency, safety, and continuous improvement. Lead a team, influence operations across all shifts, and implement sustainable practices that set the bar for excellence.
Why Nashville, AR?
Nashville is a thriving community with a friendly, small-town feel and strong access to local amenities, outdoor recreation, and a growing regional economy. It’s a place where you can build a career while enjoying a balanced lifestyle in a welcoming environment.
Coach, mentor, train and provide communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel in quality management principles, procedures and project-specific requirements.
Deliver effective change leadership while driving business changes and minimizing people impact.
Lead and develop action plans with production, engineering, and division Quality Assurance to improve the product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs and ensure that they are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements.
Serve as a key statistical resource. Verify product and process improvement through the implementation and analysis of statistically designed experiments and capability studies.
Manage the interpretation of in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvement, and assure resolution. Challenge results and drive improvement.
Lead risk assessment analysis throughout the plant. Manage issues with non-conforming product to assure proper control, minimize loses, and provide analysis to drive the elimination of future occurrences.
Ensure full compliance with all performance objectives and standards of the Quality Control Plan.
Responsible for leading and managing quality processes such as work planning, pre-activity meetings, material management, Quality Incident Reports, Lesson Sharing and follow-up inspections.
Establish, monitor and provide reports on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), as well as QIRs for project teams to ensure continuous improvement. Analyze project KPIs, evaluate trends and provide improvement strategies.
Conduct routine Quality Audits and develop action plans to close gaps in our processes, people, and systems to ensure we are delivering a consistent quality product. Collaborate and work with other department managers to close those gaps.
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Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience required.
Work Experience
5+ years' experience in regulated industry with emphasis in continuous manufacturing industry.
5+ years' experience in a quality function
Experience with Continuous Improvement processes and methodologies.
Strong knowledge of ISO and Quality Management Systems a plus.
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At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity & inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, & sustainable home.
Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.
Applicants for roles based in Washington state or remote roles that would be worked from Washington state are encouraged to direct any concerns regarding the state’s Pay Transparency laws to the SGNA HR Compliance team at SGNAHRCompliance@saint-gobain.com .
Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs:
Health and Wellbeing – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work
Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Healthcare Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options
LiveWell Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
Retirement and Protection – Helping to make the future life you want a reality
401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP), Cash Balance Pension Plan
Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance
Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want
Group Legal
Identity Theft Protection
Auto and Home Insurance
Pet Insurance and Discounts
Back-up Child & Elder Care
PerkSpot Employee Discount Program