Job Summary and Scope

As an industry leader in packaging solutions, Veritiv is looking for a skilled quality leader to join our team in Mexico.

You will be responsible for reviewing quality indicators and ensuring quality of materials provided by suppliers and leverage their technical skills to interpret customers’ packaging requirements, communicate the requirements to suppliers, assess supplier capabilities, and work with suppliers to ensure customers’ requirements are met.

We are looking for an individual with experience in quality systems and processes, problem solving, and manufacturing processes.

You will work cross-functionally with design, sourcing, and sales teams to lead supplier quality management and development from new product introduction to mass production launch.

Job Responsibilities

- Develop and implement quality metrics to monitor supplier quality performance from new product introduction through commercial launch and assess and validate current and potential supplier capabilities
- Identify, select, and manage suppliers to ensure viability and efficiency of designs
- Collaborate with Sourcing team to identify and onboard new suppliers and negotiate cost savings
- Interpret detailed technical specifications and communicate to suppliers
- Work with suppliers to enhance capabilities to meet customers’ project requirements
- Coordinate First Article Inspection (FAI) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reviews with suppliers
- Provide alternative solutions to address DFM issues, including design changes and supplier process improvement changes
- Perform on-site supplier process and internal quality systems audit, evaluate results based on data,



and initiate and review supplier corrective actions for problem resolution
- Provide leadership during investigations of major problems and special projects, developing working relationships with suppliers and internal/external supply chain partners
- Communicate quality process results to senior leadership, quality team, and other key stakeholders

Qualifications / Knowledge & Experience

- Degree in Engineering – Industrial, Mechanical, Packaging
- Minimum 5 years experience in the supplier quality engineering field within a manufacturing and/or distribution environment
- Strong knowledge of engineering principles applied to the design, manufacture, and testing of packaging, including experience in FEA and DFM principles
- Strong understanding of quality processes e.g. ISO 9001, and experience applying to manufacturing processes
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver engineering-based solutions to solve complex problems
- Packaging engineering / R&D; / manufacturing experience preferred; preferably experience with corrugated, foams, films, wood, molded pulp and/or sustainable materials
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills
- Data analysis skills
- Excellent communication, project management, and organization skills
- Flexible,



adaptable and able to make decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience leading through influence and working in a team environment with cross-functional partners
- Bilingual English and Spanish

Working Conditions / Physical Requirement

- Office and supplier manufacturing environment
- Up to 75% local travel to suppliers and customers
- Non-traditional work hours / Versátil work schedule
- Ability to travel to the U.S.

Decision Rights

- Guarantee supplier contract service parameters
- Solicit customer feedback to drive overall program improvement
- Manage communications to both internal/external stakeholders – suppliers, quality team, souring team, sales teams, and management
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Veritiv has an expansive North American network with more than 160 locations, and we do business with more than half of the Fortune 500.

We're a big company, but we’re also a new company, shaping our systems and processes to support a successful and sustainable future.

We don't just encourage an entrepreneurial spirit, we embody it.

Are you looking to join a company where you feel empowered in your work and your job is not just a job, but a path toward a rewarding and successful career? Do you want to be part of a company that customers and suppliers not only want to do business with but need to do business with? If you answered yes, then Veritiv might be the place for you.

We encourage you to learn about and apply to Veritiv if you seek a unique work experience, where diverse ideas are met with enthusiasm, and where you can realize your full potential.

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