Quality Excellence Lead

Trivium Packaging is aglobal sustainability leader in metal packagingwith more than 60 locations worldwide nearly 8000 employees and an annualrevenue of approximately 3.0 billion. Trivium serves a diverse range of customers in a variety of end markets such as food seafood pet food nutrition beauty and personal care household care and premium beverages.

Trivium wants to shape the industry and has embarked on anambitious transformation the near term focus is on building & upskilling the team deciding where to play & how to win and increasing financial performance byexecuting the Trivium Business System(commercial operational and supply chain excellence). Sustainability is embedded in our materials and in our has ambitious sustainability targets and focuses exclusively onproducts that are infinitely recyclable. Our company sustainability journey has been awarded with a Platinum medal by EcoVadis the worlds leading rating agent who allocated this award only to the top 1% of the >75000 companies reviewed. Sustainability is embedded in each and every function at Trivium its in our DNA. The global head office is at Amsterdam Airport; however many people work in virtual teams from different culture is results-driven entrepreneurial informal and highly people have a high degree of responsibility.

Job Summary:

Leads enterpriselevel quality food safety and compliance strategies across North American Food and Specialty can manufacturing operations ensuring the consistent delivery of safe compliant and highquality metal packaging products. The role develops and sustains robust quality management systems aligned with GFSI regulatory customer and internal requirements while proactively managing risk identification/mitigation and driving continuous improvement. This position collaborates with plant teams operations engineering commercial and customers to strategize the prevention of quality issues and mentoring effective change management. The role is instrumental in our Quality Transformation improving sitetosite consistency embedding a culture of quality excellence across the organization and ultimately strengthening customer confidence.

Job Duties:

• Lead enterprise quality food safety and compliance initiatives across North American can manufacturing operations.
• Develop implement and sustain standardized Quality Management Systems aligned with GFSI regulatory customer and internal requirements.
• Ensure ongoing certification readiness and act as the primary quality lead for customer regulatory and thirdparty audits.
• Proactively identify and mitigate quality and food safety risks through HARA risk assessments FMEA and preventive controls.
• Lead crossfunctional problem solving for complex quality issues with sustainable solutions and verification of effectiveness.
• Promote the use of quality core tools data analysis and statistical methods to improve process capability and reduce variation.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured standardized and deployed across sites to prevent recurrence.
• Champion a culture of quality excellence accountability and prevention at all levels of the organization.
• Partner with Operations Engineering Commercial and customers to prepare the organization for new business opportunities product changes and customer satisfaction improvement.
• Support quality transformation initiatives aimed at improving operational performance and customer outcomes.
• Drive supplier quality improvement initiatives and support supply chain performance.
• Monitor analyze and report KPIs quality performance metrics trends and risks to leadership.
• Champion a culture of quality excellence through training coaching and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Quality Leadership

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in engineering Quality Food Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of progressive experience in quality management food safety or customer quality within a manufacturing environment; metal can or packaging experience preferred.
• Experience developing and sustaining enterprise or multisite Quality Management Systems.
• Strong knowledge of GFSI standards regulatory requirements customer expectations and audit management.
• Proven experience with riskbased tools (HARA FMEA preventive controls CAPA).
• Advanced proficiency in quality core tools structured problem solving and data analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to lead crossfunctional teams influence without authority and drive change in complex organizations.
• Strong verbal written and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels and with customers.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and quality data/reporting tools
• Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) and/or ASQ certification (CQE CQA) preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud in plants outside of the office area. Employees must wear hearing protection and all other assigned Personal Protective Equipment. Temperature can range from extreme cold (<40 degrees) to extreme heat (>90 degrees). The atmosphere contains fumes dust and odors.

BRINGING YOUR TRUE SELF TO WORK

To reach our goals we know we need colleagues at all levels who are truly diverse in every way. Thats why we are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran status. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds and so do our people and Its business critical for us to ensure all our people have what they need to perform at their best and can be their true selves at work.