Global Quality Manager
BASF
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Attapulgus • United States
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About the role
- Driving Quality Performance: Accelerating resolution of key quality issues by developing and implementing sustainable long-term solutions that support EBITDA and NCC objectives.
- Strengthening Quality Systems: Enhancing existing quality management tools and leading the development of new preventive systems to shift the organization from reactive to proactive quality management.
- Championing the Voice of the Customer: Ensuring customer and business needs are clearly represented across functions, especially for new team members, reinforcing consistency in decision-making and execution.
- Leading Special Quality Initiatives: Managing unique customer-driven quality requirements, capturing lessons learned, and embedding improvements to prevent issue recurrence.
- Managing Critical Quality Processes: Overseeing nonconformance management, customer complaint resolution, component specification alignment, and Blend/Component QA processes for all sites.
- Leading Governance & Teams: Facilitating LT Quality reviews, managing quality KPIs, and guiding Multi-Site Manufacturing Quality Teams to ensure strong execution and timely action closure.
Requirements
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related field).
- Possess 10+ years of relevant experience in quality, operations, or technical fields.
- Hold demonstrated ability in root-cause analysis and development of effective corrective actions.
- Have strong teamwork and collaboration skills across disciplines and cultures, with solid organizational awareness.
- Possess excellent written, verbal, and presentation capabilities, along with assertiveness and cross-functional influence.
- Have experience managing multiple priorities with a high level of self-motivation.
- Hold the ability to work 100% onsite at Attapulgus, GA with travel (10–20%) to additional sites.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
- Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
- Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
- Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
- Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
- Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
- Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities
- Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
- Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
root-cause analysiscorrective actionsquality managementnonconformance managementcustomer complaint resolutioncomponent specification alignmentBlend QA processesquality KPIspreventive systemsquality performance
Soft Skills
teamworkcollaborationorganizational awarenesswritten communicationverbal communicationpresentation skillsassertivenesscross-functional influenceself-motivationprioritization