Quality Technician

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits
• 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

What You Will Enjoy Doing

Main Responsibilities:

• Measures, records and reports dimensional, functional and visual attributes as per ALPLA Project Manager or customer specified requirements
  • Performs required measurements using optical comparator
  • Performs measurements of material layer thickness using microscope
  • Performs measurements of wall thickness
  • Performs destructive testing including drop test, Bruceston testing & leak
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• Responsible for reviewing data for accuracy; determines root cause of abnormalities & out of specification results with project team members
• Works with Packaging Manager and Process Development Team on QA related qualification procedures for new product implementation in the TC internal as well as external ALPLA production sites
• Maintains Equipment List and performs/logs internal calibration checks on quality related equipment in the QA lab and technical center production floor
• Responsible for development product sample identification, storage & distribution to customer or others.
• Manages product retain area
• Interacts closely with process development team and packaging managers to produce successful and timely pilot sampling

Other Responsibilities:

• Reviews and sends QA packages
• Writes CMM programs
• Writes compression strength, capping & de-capping programs
• Creates inspection plans using SPC software
• Performs color analysis using Hunterlab or other software

What Makes You Great

Education: Minimum 2-year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent required, 4-year Degree (Bachelor) preferred

Experience:

• Metrology Testing Experience (Calipers, Coordinate System Understanding, Compression, Drop Testing, Volume Testing, E-Commerce Testing).
• Data Analysis Experience with SPC Software and Minitab or Equivalent.
• 2+ years of ISO 9001 and Food Safety Auditing. Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.), Outlook, Visio or Equivalent.

Skills:

• Good communication skills
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, including calipers, scales, digital
• height gauge and compression force testing equipment
• Able to handle multi-task environment with good organizational skills
• Excellent computer skills
• May be required to work overtime

Certifications/Licenses: N/A

Other Requirements: GMP/5S Experience, Documentation Control Experience

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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 and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly 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.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #hourly #TC

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. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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