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.
The Plant Quality Supervisor will coordinate and supervise all Quality Assurance activities in Production and in Laboratory to assure exceptional quality product is delivered to the customer. Ensure Production Process output is in compliance with customer expectations. Responsible for quality related communication with customers. Responsible for Food Safety Management when food contact product is produced in the plant.
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
Quality System
- Serves as the backup for the Quality Manager for the completion of internal and external quality and/or food safety audits
- Serves as the backup for the Quality Manager on monthly reporting of quality and food safety system data per documented corporate procedures locally as well as regionally as required
Quality Control
- Ensure production compliance with all regulatory, internal and customer product and packaging specifications;
- Ensure customer mandated compliance documents are issued (i.e. COAs, regulatory statements)
- Responsible for plant quality control program including product measurement, testing, data collection and integrity and rework management
- Responsible for performance of quality test equipment including internal and external calibration programs
- Assists Production with testing and data analysis on product qualification (AQP)
- Ensures the utilization of the document control systems including the use of controlled documents
- Supports the documentation of supplier related quality issues per standard procedures
Customer Relationship Management
- Serves as backup for the Quality Manager on the customer complaint process including application of proper RCA techniques and tools. Ensures customer complaints are captured in global/regional/local reporting systems
Laboratory Management
- Ensures all personnel performing quality testing within the quality lab and on the production floor are trained and qualified
- Leading the Team
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- Regularly scheduled quality staff meeting
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- Ensures team works together as efficiently as possible
- Responsible for time and attendance tracking for the quality techs
- Performs disciplinary actions for quality techs
- Performs annual performance evaluations for quality techs
- Assesses training needs of quality techs and ensures execution of training
What Makes You Great
Education/Experience:
- Min 2 year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent work experience
- Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment and with Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
- Minimum of 1 year supervisory experience required, preferably in manufacturing environment
Qualifications/Skills:
- Computer literate in Excel, SPC software, Word
- Basics statistics knowledge
- Ability to work well with other departments
- 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). #DAY #SALARIED
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.
