Quality Manager I
Tekni-Plex · Bloomfield, NY
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $85k–$105k
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 18 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Tekni-Plex (packaging) in Bloomfield, NY. Track, analyze, and lead plant initiatives related to quality and customer complaints, including supplier issues and internal nonconformances.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- Six Sigma, DOE, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Internal audits
- Base pay
- $85k–$105k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in New York: typical posted base $86k–$126k. This one lists $85k–$105k.
Median of the low and high ends of 33 live postings that list pay, out of 46 quality engineer openings in New York, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 45 other live quality postings in New York.
- Base pay
- About 10% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $86k–$126k, from 29 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 65%
- ✓ Six Sigma 52%
- Lean 48%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 39%
- Supplier quality 35%
- SPC 35%
✓ = 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
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Tekni-Plex
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
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?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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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.
Full description from Tekni-PlexAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility
Picture this: You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.
At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 9,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.
Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.
Because at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.
What is the role where you can make an impact?
Quality Manager
In this role you will be responsible for the implementation of quality process improvement. You will be a driver of process change and implementation. Assure consistent quality of production and meeting external and internal requirements, including legal compliance, customer expectations, and food safety/SQF requirements. Monitors and advises on the performance of the quality management system by producing data, reporting performance, and measuring results against established standards.
What will you do?
- •Develop and maintain a plant-level quality management system, including quality manuals and auditing of practices. Lead validation processes using statistical sampling plans to establish process stability characteristics.
- •In collaboration with Manufacturing and R&D, implement design of experiments to improve processes and establish process centerlines.
- •Drive plant standards, procedures, and program plans to achieve and maintain required levels of product quality, reliability, and functional validity. This includes supplier programs and audits to ensure consistent quality of critical incoming production supplies and materials.
- •Manage plant quality performance measurement systems to promote and implement continuous quality improvement. Establish test protocols; define specifications and calibration methods for test equipment; implement and maintain a Six Sigma program; drive continuous improvement initiatives; and monitor process capability.
- •Provide plant employees training on quality assurance and SQF/HACCP topics to improve the employee knowledge base.
- •Implement methods, tools, and procedures to test, record, and assess quality. Train personnel in their application to maintain operational quality standards and specifications.
- •Plan and coordinate work; train, motivate, monitor, and evaluate the performance of Quality employees; ensure their ability to safely operate testing equipment; and coach, document, and discipline as necessary.
- •Manage departmental budgets and business planning and establish and meet department goals and objectives.
- •Track, analyze, and lead plant initiatives related to quality and customer complaints, including supplier issues and internal nonconformances. Maintain continuous communication with all plant departments to ensure production and customer service support needs are addressed in a timely manner.
- •Manage plant-level SQF, HACCP, and other customer-required programs and manuals, including records for quality checks, testing, and regulatory compliance. Prepare for and support external customer and regulatory audits and perform internal audits to drive continuous improvement.
- •Interact effectively with Production and Development teams to maintain product supply and support the introduction of new products.
- •Liaise with customer auditors and ensure execution of corrective actions and compliance with customer specifications.
- •Prepare clear explanatory documents, including customer and supplier agreements.
- •Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports.
- •Manage and maintain the company quality inspection and product release programs for incoming and in-process materials and components, processes, and finished goods.
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Leadership
Provides leadership for the plant Quality Department, including staffing recommendations, work planning and assignment, training, coaching, performance monitoring and evaluation, and employee discipline as necessary, in accordance with organizational policies and applicable requirements.
What skills do you bring to the role?
- •Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent work experience may be considered.
- •3-5 years of demonstrated experience in Quality Management, and of managing a quality team.
- •Thorough technical understanding of quality measurement techniques and associated equipment.
- •Has command of proper Six Sigma methodology.
- •Computer skills required for data analysis, multiple graphs, reports and charts.
- •Good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
