Quality Manager
Smurfit Westrock · Atlanta (SF), GA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 26 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Smurfit Westrock (packaging) in Atlanta (SF), GA. Develop, collect, and report performance metrics to senior management, including defects, quality returns, and scrap data.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Six Sigma, Root cause
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Georgia: typical posted base $99k–$126k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 29 quality engineer openings in Georgia, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Georgia plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 28 other live quality postings in Georgia.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 6+)
Similar roles usually ask 6+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 48%
- Supplier quality 28%
- FMEA 24%
- New product launch 24%
- Team leadership 24%
- ✓ Six Sigma 24%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Smurfit Westrock
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Send a short, curious note
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
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Full description from Smurfit WestrockAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
- ✓Manage, coach, and develop the quality team and promote a positive quality culture throughout the facility by establishing efficient systems and processes
- ✓Partner with operating staff to establish procedures, standards, and systems and monitor an associated feedback loop that ensures error prevention
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Career Opportunity
The Quality Manager ensures that quality standards are met and maintained by understanding, implementing and enforcing Customer, Regulatory, and Smurfit WestRock processes, policies, and procedures. The Quality Manager will also be accountable for internal and external quality complaint resolution, execution of audits, and ensuring efficient and smooth operations within the production facility.
How you will impact Smurfit WestRock
- •Coordinate testing and measurement program to validate capability and customer specifications are being met
- •Develop, collect, and report performance metrics to senior management, including defects, quality returns, and scrap data
- •Utilize the Customer Issues System (CIS) for data collection and analysis to drive continuous improvement activities
- •Lead and monitor CAR (Corrective Action Request) and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for systemic issues to ensure robust product and process improvements
- •Plan, lead, and measure process and voice of customer performance and quality system effectiveness and make adjustments in strategy and/or procedures as needed
- •Conduct internal quality audits to oversee inspections of raw materials, materials in process, and finished products
- •Develop and facilitate a cohesive team environment which builds confidence and strong morale among inspection personnel and manufacturing support personnel
- •Train and manage the activities of quality control personnel engaged in the inspection and testing of work-in-process and finished products to ensure continuous control of materials and products and consistency in the interpretation of quality
to succeed
- •High School diploma or G.E.D., Required, Bachelor’s degree - Required
- •3+ years of corrugated box plant experience in a quality and/or leadership role.
- •Working knowledge of mechanical inspection methods and tools
- •Solid understanding of and experience in quality assurance, delivery excellence, data analysis and development of business insights
- •Demonstrated expertise in process management to ensure production efficiency
- •Ability to respond quickly to changing demands, process, and updated information
- •Demonstrated quality process understanding and continuous improvement such as Six Sigma certification
- •Possess excellent communication skills and ability to interact across all levels of the organization and accomplish organizational goals
- •Possess exceptional organizational and program management skills
- •Ability to guide team with sound decision-making through rational, balanced judgment
- •Establish a course of action for self and/or others to accomplish a specific planning goal
What we offer
- •Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence.
- •Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities.
- •An attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies, and potential.
- •Benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with match, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, employee referral bonus, and much more!
- •A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.