Quality Leader

At DuPont, we work on things that matter—providing clean water to over a billion people, producing essential materials for everyday technology like smartphones and electric vehicles, and protecting workers worldwide. DuPont™ PPC™, located in the Greater Chicago/Milwaukee region, is our flagship packaging manufacturing facility. Operating 35 extrusion lines around the clock, the site produces commodity plastic bags, converted pouches and bags, as well as monolayer and coextruded films.

Why Join Us?

• Empower the world with essential innovations to thrive.
• Chart your own career path, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities.
• Competitive pay and incentives recognizing skills, competencies, and contributions.
• Collaborative, inclusive environment with flexibility to enhance work-life balance.
• Commitment to sustainability and community impact.
• Growth and development opportunities to build skills and advance your career.

About the Role

The PPC Quality Leader is an experienced leadership role ensuring PPC’s blown-film extrusion and converting operations consistently meet customer, regulatory, food-safety, medical-packaging, and DuPont quality requirements. This role leads the site Quality organization, owns and improves the Quality Management System, sustains ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, and applicable food-contact requirements, and partners across functions to prevent defects, resolve customer concerns, reduce variation, and foster a culture of quality ownership.

Responsibilities

• Embrace and role model DuPont Core Values; cultivate a quality-first culture guided by safety, compliance, product integrity, customer needs, and continuous improvement.
• Lead, develop, and retain the Quality team; set clear performance expectations, build technical and leadership capability, and promote an inclusive workplace.
• Own, maintain, and improve the site Quality Management System, including compliance with ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, food-contact and medical-packaging requirements, customer specifications, and DuPont standards.
• Establish and communicate challenging quality goals, metrics, and outcomes; monitor customer complaints, nonconformances, audit findings, CAPA effectiveness, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, and process capability.
• Lead internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; ensure site readiness, timely closure of findings, and effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to maintain robust controls for blown-film extrusion and converting, including product specifications, process flow maps, PFMEAs, control plans, sampling plans, SPC, MSA, gauge R&R, and calibrated test equipment.
• Drive continuous quality improvement using lean, Six Sigma, 5 Why, A3, 8D, root-cause analysis, and CAPA; lead cross-functional efforts to eliminate recurring defects and reduce process variation.
• Collaborate across functions to support new products, customer qualification, supplier quality, raw-material and process changes, traceability, product disposition, cleanroom controls, and food-safety readiness.

Requirements

• 7 years of relevant experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Quality Systems, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, or Continuous Improvement; experience in flexible packaging, blown-film extrusion, converting, food packaging, medical packaging, medical devices, or another regulated industry preferred.
• 2 years of direct people leadership experience or demonstrated leadership of cross-functional quality and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting an ISO-based Quality Management System, including third-party registrar and customer audit preparation, hosting, response, and closure.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001, FSSC 22000 or similar food-safety systems, GMPs, CAPA, quality-engineering methods, and customer-specific requirements.
• Experienced lean or Six Sigma practitioner with demonstrated results using APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, gauge R&R, SPC, process capability, and structured problem-solving methods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Quality, or related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant manufacturing experience considered.
• ISO 9001 and/or relevant Lead Auditor certification.
• ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), or comparable certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.