QA Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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:

• Provides Quality Engineering support for product development in TC
• Provides fresh sample testing data in a timely and accurate manner
• Performs statistical analysis and reports for dimensional, functional and visual attributes using Quality tools and programs such as Minitab to project teams
• Writes CMM programs and trains QA techs on writing, debugging, troubleshooting CMM programs and measurement systems
• Responsible for reviewing all data measured by QA Techs for accuracy; determines root cause of abnormalities & out of specification results, conduct FMEA using quality engineering methods
• Works with Packaging Management and Process Technician Team on QA related qualification procedures for new product implementation in the TC internal as well as external ALPLA production sites
• Understands EBM/ISBM technologies along with DFM (Design of Manufacture & Design of Experimentation)
• Understands tolerance stack analysis and apply Quality engineering principles and provides feedback to Design and Process teams
• Performs quality related tasks of a product qualification procedure at ALPLA production site
• Performs color analysis using color analysis software
• Supports advanced troubleshooting for testing equipment and related programming issues at production sites
• Writes/verifies testing procedures for new methods to be used at the TC (internal) and at production sites (external)
• Performs Department and Process Audits (Experience with ISO and FSSC 22000 Regulatory Compliance or Equivalent)
• Assist with Managing and Monitoring QATC KPIs and Systems

What Makes You Great

Education: Minimum 4-year Degree (Bachelor) required

Experience: 1 year of experience in Quality, related to Product Development required, 5 plus years preferred.

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
• Computer and math skills
• May be required to work overtime
• Statistical knowledge

Certifications/Licenses: Internal or External ISO Auditing Certification/Certificate, ASQ QE Certificate or Equivalent

Other Requirements: Understanding of Minitab or Equivalent Data Analytics Software (Intermediate to Advance Level of Excel (Pivot tables, VBA, Macros, Formulas) experience acceptable), understanding of SPC Software.

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). #salaried #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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