Quality Control Technician (Packaging)
About the Role
We are currently hiring a Full Time Quality Control Technician in Breinigsville, PA (12hr day shift). As a Quality Control Technician, you will help ensure every product meets our quality and integrity standards throughout production and packaging. You will analyze samples, monitor processes, document results, and determine whether products should be released or held. You will also partner with production and maintenance teams to resolve quality issues and support continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze product samples at multiple stages of production, including finished products, to verify compliance with quality standards and specifications.
- Perform packaging quality checks, including Secure Seal Tests, seam analysis, pasteurization unit testing, fill-level inspections, coding verification, labeling checks, and total package oxygen and carbon dioxide measurements.
- Operate and calibrate laboratory equipment, including beer analyzers, and document testing results accurately.
- Use statistical process control data and standard operating procedures to determine whether production can continue or requires adjustment, shutdown, or product hold.
- Investigate packaging-material defects, leaks, rejected products, process deviations, and out-of-specification materials, and communicate findings to the appropriate teams.
- Manage product holds and releases by preparing documentation, collecting samples, conducting required analysis, and determining appropriate next steps.
- Conduct Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point audits, enforce brewery and food-safety standards, and stop processes that do not comply.
- Maintain the product-retain library by collecting, documenting, and storing samples in accordance with brewery procedures and Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau requirements.
- Participate in sensory evaluations, packaging-material qualifications, and continuous-improvement projects.
- Work assigned shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays as required in a production environment with loud noise, temperature extremes, elevated platforms, production equipment, and forklifts.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Two to five years of experience in a related field.
- Three to five years of general work experience in a production facility or industrial environment.
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices, basic laboratory and production safety procedures, and statistical process control.
- The ability to use computers and automated equipment to enter, review, and interpret data.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction and communicate effectively across departments.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, sometimes repeatedly, and walk or stand for extended periods of up to 11 hours per day.
- Ability to crouch, crawl, bend, twist, climb stairs, work from heights or elevated platforms, reach overhead, and wear required personal protective equipment.
- Ability to pass a job-specific pre-employment physical examination and, when required for the role, a respirator fit test.
Pay
In accordance with pay transparency laws, the pay rate for this role if hired is $25/HR. However, it's important to note that where the person hired starts in this range is dependent on their related experience, skillset, and location.
Benefits
- Generous healthcare on day one
- Stock purchase plan
- 401k
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fertility/adoption support
- Free financial coaching
- Health & wellness program and discounts
- Professional development & training
- Free beer
Talk to your recruiter about eligibility.
Level: 9IC
*Some perks may be subject to eligibility requirements.