Director of Quality - Chicago, United States - RR Donnelley
Description
Company Description
RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey.
The company offers the industry's most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact.
With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.
This is a Platform Wide position responsible for facilitating & coordinating the Quality Management System (QMS) and Operational Excellence initiatives across the Packaging and Retail Solutions platform to optimize and improve manufacturing operations, focusing on compliance, quality assurance, customer satisfaction, waste reduction and productivity.
This leadership position will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful implementation of the supporting Quality and CI programs, process improvements, and innovative technologies to achieve operational excellence.
This will include tracking progress, identifying opportunities, and ensuring resources are deployed in the most efficient manner.
This is a key leadership role responsible for developing and executing the company's quality strategy to ensure the delivery of high-quality products/services.
& Metrics, Best Practice sharing, CI Tools, KPI Monitoring and Training & Development.
This role will be responsible for directly impacting the platforms overall strategic direction by:
- Implement color management methodological support
- Standardize the quality resolution process (RCAs, Corrective & Preventive action plans)
- Standardize the QC process as much as practical
- Support new product introductions. Standardize the procedures as much as practical
- Changing the culture to one of continuously improving operational performance and achieving operational excellence in all facets of manufacturing.
- Help define and achieve operational KPIs for each business
- Assist in sharing best practices across the Platform and across RRD
- Lead and mentor a team of quality & CI managers and specialists to ensure efficient execution of quality projects & initiatives.
- Driving change in the company's direction through platform wide QMS & CI training and developing and rolling out critical stateoftheart manufacturing improvement programs
- Providing strategic leadership, through the development and execution of a comprehensive manufacturing excellence strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives
- Driving strategic company financial improvements by opening up machine capacity, reducing waste and the need for additional capital spending, reducing the overall manufacturing footprint, and lowering overall operating costs
Responsibilities
- Oversee the design and implementation of quality management systems, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and standards.
- Accountable for the site team's progress, training plans, methodology implementation, and rapid rollout across the organization.
- Work with sites to identify, assess, and implement process improvements to enhance
- Provide ongoing feedback on the site team's activities regarding goals and plans.
- Oversee the completion, compilation, and analysis of results to ensure effective project implementation
- Establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to track and measure
- Organizes and coordinates multiple Department/Plant Project teams (operations and engineering), to meet results and timelines
- Provides leadership and direction for the improvement of systems, technical and infrastructure processes across the platform
- Coordinates all CI projects with teams, reviews progress, and evaluates results
- Prepares and delivers managementlevel reports on progress and facilitates changes in plans to mitigate risks
- Develops, monitors, and implements standardized Best Practice projects and processes companywide
- Resolves priority issues and conflicts and works through all levels of the organization to remove barriers to progress
- Collaborate with others to ensure the applicability and effectiveness of the process and capital improvements across multiple functional areas
- Other responsibilities as assigned based on skillset and business need
- The position is expected to travel 40%50%.
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