Quality Engineering Technician

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead by example - promote a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive safety improvements through risk identification and elimination, as well as full compliance with daily risk assessment completion, leveraging support from other groups as needed.
• Complete required PASA audits for improving Behavior Based Safety, and drive team behaviors for continued safety awareness and practices.
• Point of contact for specific internal plant quality improvement initiatives involving labels manufacturing operations as directed by Site Leadership.
• Primary resource for direct labels customers, providing field support when needed and traveling to customer locations as required.
• Investigate complaints and recommend actions to Site Leadership.
• Maintain and improve product and process quality on the calendar, extrusion, tenuring, and slitting lines associated with the labels market.
• Support / Develop processing targets, statistical validated process limits, and utilize tracking program to ensure compliance with optimal run conditions.
• Implement product evaluation plan for materials processed outside of required conditions.
• Drive the corrective action process.
• Provide thorough, timely and accurate responses to our customers.
• Drive continuous improvement using data analysis, statistical control and other available tools to identify areas of improvement in the labels manufacturing activity in the plant.
• Assist production regarding customer complaints with respect to quality, tolerances, specifications, and delivered condition of products.
• Analyze production data and identify trends, proactively implementing solutions to prevent quality issues and optimize processes in kp labels for the Rural Retreat site.
• Conduct departmental audits to determine compliance to SOPs and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
• Keep plant management team abreast of significant issues and developments identified during quality assurance activities and actions being taken to improve the situation.
• Align with kp’s strategic compass and core behaviors: Focus, Accountability, Respect, and Urgency.

Education And/or Experience

• Chemical or Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent from a four-year college or university;
• or four to six years related experience and/or training;
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.