Quality Manager

We are looking for Circular Solution’s first Quality Manager to support our growth journey ahead. Your location will be Hylte mill and you will be working in the Packaging Solutions Division. You will report to our Production & Supply Chain Director.
Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden constructions and paper. Our fiber-based materials are renewable, recyclable and fossil free. Our solutions offer low-carbon alternatives to products based on finite resources. We believe that everything that is made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
Circular Solutions is a business in startup phase where we must shape a lot by ourselves including generate new ideas and come up with new products, which means a lot can, and will, happen. Circular Solution’s mission and purpose is to find climate-smart solutions, preferably circular and reduce the use of fossil-based materials. Within their portfolio there are currently four different businesses:
Circular product offer (biocomposites, recycled compounds etc).
Fiber mats for transport protection and insulation
DuraSense® building profiles (sold B2C)
Circular services including take-back programs, product recycling and regenerative design

Career for a better climate. Every day.
You will be our first Quality Manager, which means you will have the opportunity to bring your previous experience and use all your creativity to form your position. This also means the role will develop with our growth. Location is our plant in Hylte with the possibility to work from home up to 50 % of your time.
Some of your day-to-day tasks will most likely include:
Ensuring the stability of the products by regular monitoring and sampling. Together with operations and supply chain work on continuous improvements. Propose changes and come with solutions to the production team for improvements.
Establish and be responsible for our quality management system which fulfill relevant standards and business needs.
Handle claims related to quality. Seek the root-cause and find ways to solve it.
Being responsible for audits and participate in work with product certifications. Take lead on resolving nonconformities.
Analyze the needs, improve upon and support in the implementation of cross-functional processes to ensure operational excellence.
Set and approve products specifications, sampling instructions, test methods and other quality control procedures.
Approval of conditions for outsourced testing.
Regularly conduct control of raw materials, starting materials, packaging materials, intermediate, and finished products (including approval or rejection thereof).
Supervision of the control of the reference and/or retention samples of materials and products.


What we offer
With our values, “Lead and Do What’s Right”, we endeavor to set an example in all aspects of our business as well as sustainability. We dare to take the initiative and constantly ask ourselves what more can we do, what can we do better. This is an excellent opportunity for you to be a part of the journey Stora Enso is on – transforming from a traditional forest industry company, into a renewable materials growth company – an industry with great potential driven by global megatrends. As a Quality Manager, you have the opportunity take part on a journey creating products and services delivering circularity and/or climate smartness. Hylte is a great and fun workplace with a challenging environment where we can guarantee that you will grow. We offer high flexibility with the ability to work from home up to 50% of your worktime.
Qualifications
In order to succeed in this role, you have minimum 3-5 years of experience working in a similar role preferably within industrial production. Your proficiency is based on a degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering or another relevant area, or you have work experience that can be proven equivalent. Experience from working within the process industry is an asset but not a requirement. You are a great communicator with excellent negotiation skills, and you communicate fluently in Swedish and English.
To thrive in this role, you are self-propelled and with a genuine interest to bring value to our customers. You are pragmatic, take initiatives and dare to think outside the box as required in a business that is growing rapidly and where quick changes are part of the daily work. You believe that the best results come from collaboration and it’s easy for you to reach out to and communicate with others to create understanding for your point of view.
Additional information
Please submit your application via our recruitment system latest by 15th of August 2021. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis so don’t hesitate to apply right away! While the start date is flexible, the right candidate can join us immediately. Hiring manager Patricia Oddshammar, +46 79 347 0424, patricia.oddshammar@storaenso.com is happy to answer your questions about the position. Other questions can be directed to Recruitment Specialist Sarah Söder, sarah.soder@storaenso.com. We accept applications submitted only through our recruitment system.
We believe diversity strengthens our competitiveness and contributes to better decision-making. Diverse working teams help us to explore different perspectives and challenge our way of thinking. We work actively to increase diversity in the workplace and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. Stora Enso is an equal opportunity employer and follows non-discriminatory practices.
Based on the location and level of the position the normal recruitment process could in addition entail, video interview, aptitude tests, and pre-employment actions such as; background checks, references, health check-up and drug test as part of the final stages. You will be informed to what is applicable to the role during the recruitment process.
The Packaging Solutions division develops and sells premium fiber-based packaging products and services. Our high-end eco-friendly packaging products are used by leading brands across multiple market sectors, including store retail, e-commerce and industrials. The portfolio includes corrugated and other converting, design services, automation solutions, and scalable innovations such as formed fiber and circular products and services .
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