Quality Tech (Venting)

About the Company

At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care. Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better.

Responsibilities

• Support manufacturing through the inspection and assessment of product quality in the Venting department.
• Understand or quickly learn manufacturing technologies including:
  • VAT Membrane Heat Staking
  • Direct Weld Membrane Heat Staking
  • MMC Cap Liner Assembly
• Follow standard test methods and techniques, inspect and test product to ensure it meets customer and product specifications, and alert production when standards are not met.
• Monitor product tracking methods (e.g., UPC, date stamps) and maintain customer samples.
• Place questionable product on hold, organize re-work if necessary, and inspect returned product while helping determine the disposition of suspect material.
• Perform 1st piece verification of all manufacturing operations and document results in an electronic database.
• Prepare routine reports, including gathering and summarizing data.
• Create Range Boards of Acceptable & Defective product to aid operators in making effective quality decisions.
• Develop procedures, work instructions, and forms to support ISO9001:2015 Quality system requirements.
• Test and verify incoming raw materials while documenting test results.
• Assist in training quality and production employees in quality assurance based on internal procedures, work instructions, and customer specification standards.
• Follow and participate in plant safe housekeeping guidelines to ensure a safe work environment and participate in GMP.
• Perform Capability and Gage R&R Studies to monitor process improvement efforts.
• Advise production personnel of quality problems and work with the Operations team to develop and implement corrective and preventive action plans.
• Work independently with minimal supervision but collaboratively with the Operations Team.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of quality assurance experience.
• Ability to input and retrieve information on a computer.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills using tact and diplomacy.
• Strong attention to detail.

Skills

• Language Skills:
  • Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
  • Write simple correspondence.
  • Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Mathematical Skills:
  • Perform basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Compute rate, ratio, and percent, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability:
  • Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions.
  • Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to stand, walk, talk, and hear.
• Occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and smell.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud; hearing protection is required.

Schedule

Shift Hours: 6:45 AM - 3:00 PM

Benefits

TekniPlex provides a comprehensive and flexible benefits program that you can customize to fit your personal needs, including:

• 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

Some benefits are paid in full by TekniPlex, some costs are shared, and others are available at reasonable group rates.