
Quality Lead
- Orlando, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conduct and validate quality audits across the plant, ensuring all processes align with corporate policies, goals, and quality objectives.
- Train and develop plant personnel on quality guidelines and best practices, promoting a continuous improvement mindset and fostering quality awareness across teams.
- Track and report key quality performance metrics, including Acceptable Quality Limits (AQL), Pest Control Program (PCP) compliance, and customer complaints.
- Investigate and resolve quality issues, including customer complaints and rejected loads, using root cause corrective actions (RCCA) and implementing preventive measures.
- Maintain and manage quality-related documentation, ensuring all records meet corporate and regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with regional quality teams and internal stakeholders to address plant-specific quality concerns and ensure consistency in quality management across locations.
- Lead continuous improvement projects targeting quality systems and processes, working with cross-functional teams to implement solutions that enhance operational performance.
- Responsible for performing and/or validating all quality audits and reporting results.
- Complying with all corporate policies, goals and objectives.
- Ensure plant and plant personnel operate within CHEP quality guidelines.
- Track performance on quality and report to supervisors and management.
- Track rejections and/or customer complaints and address them with site, sales and quality teams.
- Conduct reverse audits on rejected loads and complete informal and/or formal RCCA’s pertaining to rejections.
- Train and develop team members to meet corporate quality guidelines.
- Maintain all quality related documents for all plant personnel.
- Review and address all pending quality related concerns or issues at the site level.
- Develop and lead group projects targeting quality systems and continuous process improvements.
- Work with Regional Quality personnel and the greater quality team to resolve concerns.
- Perform quality aspect of orientation training and walkthroughs for all new hires.
- Be the key person to drive continuous improvement at the plant and strengthen internal policies, procedures, and systems as it relates to quality.
- Ownership of PCP process for all employees.
- Works with shipping and production to maintain A-stock audit compliance.
- Works with shipping and production to maintain AW audit compliance.
- Works with shipping, production, and site leadership to ensure all pallet stock types are stored and labeled accordingly.
- Conduct Train the Trainer program for all training personnel as it relates to quality.
- Owns Repair and Sort AQL reporting and corrective actions for drops below CHEP required AQL.
- Responsible for contact with pest control vendor rep and site level pest program.
- Owns Master Cleaning Schedule for the site and assists in maintaining cross-department compliance to this process.
- Customer quality audits at customer location(s).
- Address any issues with inbound/outbound loads from a quality standpoint.
- Deal with and address site-level employee driven quality related concerns/issues.
- Quality overall and associated documentation
- AQL
- PCP compliance
- Pest control compliance
- Inventory labelled to quality
- On time reporting
- As it relates to quality with plant leadership approval
- Working independently
- Working across and within the matrix
- Provides hands-on leadership as a working lead
- Plant Managers, Directors, Quality
- Customers, Vendors
- Prior experience in a quality role in a manufacturing environment
- Strong customer focus orientation
- Demonstrated success in delivering strong employee relations
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience managing quality performance and programs
- Ability to manage quality processes and motivate a team
- Excellent problem-solving skills and strategic thinking ability
- Comfort with Microsoft Suites, including, but not limited to: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- English
- Spanish