QA Technician I

About the role

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top brands including P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, and Pepsi. We value our employees, offer comprehensive benefits, and prioritize work-life balance, personal growth, compensation, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Measures, records, and reports dimensional, functional, and visual attributes per internally specified requirements
• Maintains measurement database integrity
• Documents and reports all supplier quality related issues per documented procedures
• Aids 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
• Samples and assists with color matching
• Pulls samples as needed

Qualifications

• 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

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

Pay

The position offers a competitive hourly rate and benefits package.

Schedule

Shifts are Sunday-Thursday, 6 AM to 4:30 PM. There may be some flexibility during training.

Performance Metrics

• Customer and external audits
• Quality of products

Education/Experience

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

Physical Demands

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, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; occasionally 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.

Behaviors Required

• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help

Equal Opportunity Employer

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.