Plant Quality Manager

About O-I

Remember the last time you opened a bottle of champagne? A cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench your thirst? Well, it was probably made by us. We are O-I and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world. 

O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. 

Why do you want to apply? O-I in Ringgold offers very competitive wages and a great benefits package! The plant is located an hour south from Greensboro, NC international airport and an hour north from Lynchburg, VA Liberty University. O-I is a company that is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and offers opportunity for growth and advancement.

The Plant Quality Manager is responsible for managing and continuously improving all internal and external plant assurance of quality systems.  They will work with plant management to develop the plant’s quality plan that will create and maintain a customer-focused organization.

The Plant Quality Manager will:

• Work with plant management in setting and maintaining quality objectives, and assuring those objectives are being met.
• Establish customer relationships, make customer visits as appropriate, and assist in implementing customer quality management systems.
• Work directly with all departments on quality issues and on preventative and corrective actions.
• Facilitate problem solving activity through Total Quality Management (TQM), team building, and quality systems tools and methods.
• Work with the line and process supervisors in identifying negative quality trends and repetitive defects.
• Effectively communicate customer issues and perspectives to all plant personnel, including floor level, on a routine and timely basis.

The Plant Quality Manager should have:

• Experience developing and maintaining a Quality Management System.
• The ability to investigate customer complaints, prepare customer complaint responses, and maintain a database on all customer complaints.
• Experience working with a plant management team to develop standard operating procedures

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience  
• Three (3) to five (5) years of relevant experience with Total Quality Management in a manufacturing environment 
• Previous experience in the glass industry is preferred  
• Previous supervisory experience is preferred  
• SAP experience is a plus  
• Strong communication and data analytics skills 
• Demonstrated project management skills 

There may be some travel associated with this position for training and/or project work 

What we offer at O-I: 

Salary Range:  The expected salary range for this position is between $97,000 - $107,000 and includes a possible 12% quarterly incentive bonus.    Actual pay will be adjusted based upon candidate experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

O-I offers a very generous benefit package – some of the highlights are:

• Vacation time and paid holidays
• Health, dental, prescription and vision care coverage
• Generous insurance discounts with participation in Company wellness program
• Wellness incentive where you can earn money for your HSA or HRA
• Group life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance
• Weekly disability insurance
• Paid sick time
• Parental leave benefits
• 401(k) retirement saving plans with defined contributions

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

O-I is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected category. 

Qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans who are unable or limited in their ability to apply on this site may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [email protected].