Quality Manager

At INVISTA, we make the chemicals, polymers, fabrics, and fibers that can handle life's toughest demands, create new solutions for life's biggest needs, and deliver products and brands incorporated into your clothing, and even your car. With a business presence in more than 20 countries, INVISTA is a leading producer of chemical intermediates for the polypropylene and nylon value chains. Many major companies and manufacturers partner with us not only for our polymers and fibers - but our focus on mutually beneficial partnerships and unrivaled customer service.

From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging, and clothing, our ingredients in the polypropylene and nylon 6,6 value chains help our customers deliver outstanding products.

Our Polypropylene Business is looking for our next Quality Manager to join our growing and dynamic team in our Longview Texas facility.
What You Will Do In Your Role

• Foster a quality culture and build quality capability across 2 manufacturing sites to improve our quality performance.
• Understanding our customers current and future product quality needs and drive our quality performance to meet their needs.
• Apply Operational Excellence Strategy and Principle Based Management® for managing continuous improvement of Quality Systems and Processes.
• Work with Operations, Commercial, Customer Experience, Supply Chain, and the corporate Quality teams to ensure customer needs are met.
• Use statistical methods to track, monitor, and report quality performance relative to industry and customer expectations.
• Align organization around key performance indicators (KPI's) and drive efforts to close gaps.
• Conduct quality reviews at various levels in the organization and track performance against key action plans.
• Building collaborative relationships with strategic customers and internal capabilities
• Lead a continual learning and improvement process, by driving investigations, implementing sustainable corrective action, and providing timely resolutions to customers.
• Participate in audit process of facilities and warehouses.

The Experience You Will Bring
Requirements:

• Three years or more of experience driving quality and process improvements in a manufacturing or petrochemical environment
• Knowledge and use of statistical tools for data analysis
• Experience with investigation techniques (preferred causemap, RCA techniques 5 Why's, fault tree etc.)
• Experience with Office suite of products such as Word, Excel, Outlook; and PowerPoint

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• Experience in a petrochemical manufacturing or industrial work site
• Lean manufacturing experience
• Statistical Control Process, Continuous Improvement or ISO9001 experience, or comparable qualifications (i.e., Lean Six Sigma, ISO auditing, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience to lead sustainable change within a capability model
• Supervisory experience

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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