QA Technician I

About the Role

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 You Will Enjoy Doing

Main Responsibilities:

• Measurements and Testing
  • Measures, records and reports dimensional, functional and visual attributes per internally specified requirements
  • Maintains measurement database integrity
• Documentation
  • Controls and reports all nonconformance product per documented procedures
  • Documents and reports all supplier quality related issues per document procedures
• Quality System Support
  • Assists in audit preparation
  • Conducts internal audits as required
  • Trains and monitors all personnel performing quality testing within the quality lab and on the production floor
  • Provides a signed acceptable color sample for production line at each start up
• Sampling-Assistance
• Color matching
• Labeling
• Pull samples as needed

The position description is not all inclusive and I may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Performance Metrics

• Customer and external audits
• Customer complaints
• Quality of products

Requirements

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

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).

Schedule

• 4 ten-hour shifts: Sunday-Thursday 6a to 4:30p. This may differ during training, so candidate must be flexible during training.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness Care Program
• 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