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:

Quality System

Support plant to ensure compliance with all ISO 9001 quality management system, FSSC 22000 food safety management system, and other standards & regulations

Assists in hazard analysis and HACCP program for food product

Prepares and successfully completes internal, customer and external audit requirements

Measurement and Test Systems

Work with plant to optimize lab & inline measurement and test systems

Train plant personnel on test and measurement systems

Maintains calibration standards on all quality related equipment

Monitors on-line testing through daily checks of SPC data entry of Machine Operators

Mold Approvals

Assist plant in mold qualifications and verification assessments during production runs

Customer & Internal Quality Issues

Assist plants in analyzing quality issue trends

Review customer scorecards and assist plants to implement improvements

Works with production and customer to determine optimized process settings to assure specified requirements are met (specifically during sampling and product qualification process)

Quality and Continuous Improvement Projects

Lead and assist in Quality Department projects regarding quality and continuous improvement

Lead NEXT (Alpla global CIP program) implementation for plant

Documentation

Assist in maintaining documentation control and repository including customer specifications

Assist in optimizing quality documentation system

Review plant data reports to ensure accuracy and reliability; analyze data to identify improvement opportunities

Owner of Root Cause Analyses Process by involving relevant departments in developing appropriate corrective action response

Promote quality mind set and culture in the plant

What Makes You Great

Education/Experience:

B.S. (Industrial Engineering preferred, other science or technical degrees will be considered) with 1-2 years of relevant experience or recent graduate.

Some experience in a high volume manufacturing or lab environment preferred

Some work experience in Quality Assurance

Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment

Strong statistical knowledge. Six Sigma Green Belt (desirable)

Knowledge of Project Management and experience leading projects (ideal)

Qualifications/Skills:

Computer proficiency (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, SPC and/or MiniTab)

Ability to work well with other departments and plants, and lead small teams.

Able to handle multi-task environment with excellent organizational skills.

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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