Quality Assurance Engineer

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

Support Alpla North America Integrated Management and Quality Assurance systems through projects and initiatives in the regional Quality Department. Responsible for providing quality related support to all plants in Alpla North America. 

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