QA Technician III

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What Will You Enjoy Doing

Main Responsibilities:

Measurements and Testing

• Ensure production compliance with all internal and customer product and
  packaging specifications
• Ensures completion of all customer required testing through daily checks
  of SPC data entry of Machine Operators and Quality Technicians
• Maintains measurement database integrity
• Coordinates sampling, testing and reporting for new product mold
  qualifications

Quality Test Equipment

• Maintains optimum performance and internal calibration checks on quality
  related test equipment.
• Schedules external calibration and maintains approved equipment list
• Performs gage R&R testing for new equipment or operators

Documentation

• Maintenance of customer product specification and drawings
• Develops and maintains internal product and packaging specifications
• Maintains current revision of customer and Alpla test methods
• Controls and reports all nonconformance product per documented procedures
• Provides quality data for monthly reporting in emis and other customer required data reporting
• Maintains quality related records from production & quality lab.
• Coordinates reporting production quality through Certificate of Compliance as specified by customer
• Reviews, approves & maintains certificate of compliance/assurance for incoming material

Trains and monitors compliance of test methods for personnel performing quality testing

Trains personnel in quality related work instructions

Performs routine line inspections

Responsible for promoting quality mind set in all plant employees

Responsible for maintenance of product quality aides

• Maintaining customer approved color samples
• Ensures that a signed acceptable sample for color or reject sample for defects are available for standard decision-making

Coordinates staffing replacement for planned absence of quality technicians

Assumes Quality Manager responsibilities with Plant/Operation Manager guidance when required

What Makes You Great

Education/Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment preferred

Qualifications/Skills:

• Basic Computer skills
• Ability to work well with other departments
• Able to make decisions with little supervision (Night Shift)
• Able to handle multi-task environment with good organizational skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA).

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