Quality Technician

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SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Quality Technician is responsible for conducting product specific testing procedures and quality equipment verifications during the blow molding and Injection molding processes. This role will ensure that all product manufactured complies within customer specific product specifications. The Quality Technician will aid the operation in identifying any food safety or non-conformance issues while enforcing adherence to customer quality requirements by verifying that all internal and external quality requirements are being met.

SHIFT SCHEDULE: Both shifts available

• 4-4 rotational schedule
  • Day Shift: 6:50am-7:00pm
  • Night Shift: 6:50pm - 7:00am

JOB DUTIES & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Follow all internal safety procedures and policies to keep a clean and organized work area in our active, fast-paced, team driven environment.
• Perform in-process inspections, measurements, and auxiliary equipment audits to ensure product is manufactured within customer specifications.
• Confirm that manufactured product is being packaged and labeled using the correct corrugate, strapping and stacking orientations.
• Utilize the RedZone system to document written communication of discovered internal product defects and actions needed to resolve the non-conformance.
• Record Quality verification results in the RedZone system highlighting any discovered defects, non-conformances, or process deviations.
• Ensure product deemed to be non-conforming is physically and systemically held to prevent customer exposure to defects.
• Participate in root-cause corrective action discussions, defect origin research, improvement implementations and high-level reporting for external customer complaints.
• Verify molding machines and supporting equipment is cleaned and sanitized according to ISO22000, HACCP and internal food safety cleanliness procedures prior to molder changeovers and restarting of equipment.
• Support in the direction, organization, and maintaining of high output performance during non-conforming product rework initiatives.
• Update the Quality specification boards to showcase product being manufactured, product specification sheets, past non-conformance information, and other visual aids.
• Assist in new product qualifications and implementations by reviewing specification details and training floor members on the specific quality requirements.
• Operate, verify, and support in maintaining quality specific equipment such as weight scales, vision systems, date coders, leak detectors, etc.
• Maintain professional verbal and written communication at all levels of the operation as well as with other internal and external customers.
• Actively Work with Operations floor leadership to determine future best practices and quality procedures to prevent future internal holds, external customer returns and facility scrap loss.
• Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned to support filling operations gaps and contributing to overall process improvement.
• Compliance to GMP, Food Safety, and Food Quality regulations as required by the company, customers, and/or government agencies