Quality Lead

About the Role

TekniPlex is hiring a Quality Lead for our South Madison, WI facility. This role is a team leader, planner, trainer, and administrator, responsible for driving safety and quality initiatives, ensuring compliance, and leading daily activities in the quality area.

Responsibilities

• Assess job requirements and address possible hazards through elimination, PPE, or engineering solutions.
• Audit employee behaviors for safety compliance and drive floor-level safety initiatives.
• Ensure product and process quality by understanding and supporting quality policies and systems.
• Report non-conformances and high-risk quality problems to supervisors.
• Lead daily quality area activities to meet volume, safety, and quality standards.
• Train and develop personnel within the quality department.
• Maintain accurate and timely data collection and reporting.
• Handle record-keeping, including filing certificates, verifications, and equipment calibrations.
• Prepare Certificates of Analysis (COA) and customer samples.
• Facilitate team improvement projects, including quality improvement and procedural compliance.
• Work with QC and Technical Managers on new products, samples, and issue resolution.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in a Quality Technician role.
• Good standing with attendance.
• Demonstrated team facilitation and process improvement skills.
• Success in continuous improvement within manufacturing standards.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suites and computer literacy.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Thorough understanding of quality processes and manufacturing capabilities.
• Strong decision-making and adaptability in a rapidly changing environment.

Skills

• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Proficiency in writing routine reports and completing time cards and work orders.
• Ability to analyze and interpret technical procedures, blueprints, and technical drawings.
• Effective presentation skills in one-on-one and group situations.
• Mathematical skills including algebra, geometry, fractions, percentages, and proportions.
• Problem-solving ability in situations with limited standardization.
• Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, talk, and hear.
• Frequently required to use hands for handling and reaching.
• Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration.
• Occasionally exposed to high places, fumes, chemicals, outside weather, and extreme heat.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $30 - $32 per hour.

Schedule

1st Shift Hours: 7:00am – 3:30pm, Monday – Friday

Benefits

• Medical Coverage
• Prescription Drug Coverage
• Telemedicine
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Basic Term Life/AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life/AD&D Insurance
• Short Term Disability (STD)
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Voluntary Buy-Up LTD
• Hospital Indemnity
• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Daily Pay
• Business Travel Insurance
• Legal Plan
• Identity Protection